Global Geochemical Database for Critical Minerals in Archived Mine Samples

The Critical Minerals in Archived Mine Samples Database (CMDB) contains chemistry and geologic information for historic ore and ore-related rock samples from mineral deposits in the United States. In addition, the database contains samples from archetypal deposits from 27 other countries in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Samples were obtained from archived ore collections under the U.S. Geological Survey's project titled "Quick Assessment of Rare and Critical Metals in Ore Deposits: A National Assessment" (2008 to 2013) in an effort to begin an assessment of the Nations' previously mined ore deposits for critical minerals. Mineralized and altered rock samples were provided by the Colorado...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alaska, Argentina, Arizona, Arkansas, Australia, All tags... Brazil, Burma, California, Canada, Chile, China, Colorado, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Economic Geology, Finland, Geochemistry, Germany, Honduras, Idaho, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mauritania, Mexico, Michigan, Mineral Resources, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, NGDB, Namibia, National Geochemical Database, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Norway, Oklahoma, Oregon, Papua New Guinea, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, South Carolina, South Dakota, Sweden, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Zambia, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, atomic emission spectroscopy, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, cadmium, calcium, cerium, chemical analysis, chromium, cobalt, copper, critical minerals, dysprosium, economic geology, erbium, europium, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientific information, germanium, gold, hafnium, historic ores, holmium, indium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, metallic mineral resources, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineralogy, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, nonmetallic mineral resources, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, rhenium, rock geochemistry, rocks and deposits, samarium, scandium, silicon, silver, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022 - PLATINUM-GROUP METALS Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the PLATINUM-GROUP METALS data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022.

Categories: Data; Tags: Iridium, Osmium, PGM waste and scrap, Palladium, Platinum, All tags... Rhodium, Ruthenium, United States, metallic mineral resources, Fewer tags

Cobalt Deposits in the United States

This data release provides descriptions of more than 60 mineral regions, mines, and mineral deposits within the United States and its territories that are reported to contain enrichments of cobalt (Co). To focus the scope of this data release, we report only mined deposits and exploration prospects with past production, or resource and reserve estimates of 1,000 metric tons or more of cobalt. Cobalt has diverse uses because of its properties, which include ferromagnetism, hardness, wear-resistance, low conductivity, and high melting point. The primary uses for cobalt are in rechargeable battery electrodes, and in superalloys used to make gas turbine engines. In 2017, the United States had a net import reliance...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alaska, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, California, GGGSC, All tags... Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Idaho, MRP, Maine, Michigan, Mineral Resources Program, Mineralogy, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, barite, cobalt, copper, critical mineral, economic geology, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, iron, lead, location, mine, mine sites, mineral commodity, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, natural resource exploration, net smelter return (NSR), nickel, open pit mine, palladium, platinum, silver, sulfur, surface workings, underground workings, zinc, Fewer tags

OFR 54-88 - Estimated Impacts on U.S. Gross National Product (GNP) and Employment Resulting from a U.S. Embargo on South African Platinum Group Metal Supplies. 1988.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Platinum, South Africa

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries of Select Countries in the Indo-Pacific

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for 19 countries of interest in the Indo-Pacific region (area of study): Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Fiji, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea (Republic of Korea), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Asia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, All tags... Economic Geology, Energy Resources, Fiji, Geography, Indo-Pacific, Information Sciences, LNG, Malaysia, Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area (JDA), Mineral Resources, Mongolia, NGL, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea (Republic of Korea), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vietnam, alumina, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, bauxite, bismuth, cadmium, calcium carbonate, cement, chromium, clay, coal, coal area, coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, coalfield, cobalt, coke, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, development, exploration, feldspar, ferroalloys, fluorspar, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gemstone, gold, graphite, gypsum, hydrocarbon resources, hydrogen, indium, iron and steel, iron ore, iron sand, lead, lime, liquefied natural gas, liquid natural gas, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral development, mineral exploration, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, natural gas, natural gas liquids, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, oil, oil and gas, oil production, palladium, peat, perlite, permissive, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate rock, platinum, platinum group elements, porphyry copper, potassium, pyrophyllite, rare earths, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, resources, rhenium, rhodium, salt, sand and gravel, scandium, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, shale gas, shale oil, silica, silica sand, silicon, silver, smelting, stone, sulfur, talc, tantalum, tellurium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tracts, tungsten, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, zeolites, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

WMR 236 - Green Mountain Copper Mine. Sanders County, Montana. 1944.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Copper, Platinum, Sanders County, Montana

Analyses of historic U.S. Bureau of Mines rock and heavy mineral concentrate samples for geochemical trace-element and rare-earth element data--Ray Mountains and Kanuti-Hodzana uplands area, Alaska

Re-analyses of sample pulps and bulk rejects from historic USBM rock and heavy-mineral-concentrate samples were conducted by the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) as part of the State of Alaska's Strategic and Critical Minerals Assessment project, which is designed to evaluate Alaska's potential for these resources. The objective of this resource assessment is to expand the state's geochemical database by obtaining and publishing modern, quantitative geochemical analyses for historic USBM samples, where available. Highlights of this re-analysis project include heavy mineral concentrates with up 7,220 ppm Sn, 5,870 ppm Cr, and 17,000 ppm Mn.

Tags: Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Basalt, All tags... Base Metals, Beaver Quadrangle, Bedrock, Beryllium, Bettles Quadrangle, Bismuth, Bonanza Creek, Cadmium, Calcium, Caribou Mountain, Cerium, Cesium, Chlorite, Chromium, Coal Creek, Cobalt, Copper, Critical Minerals, Dall River, Dalton Highway, Dysprosium, Economic Geology, Erbium, Europium, Exploration, Felsic, Fish Creek, Fluorine, Fort Hamlin Hills, Gadolinium, Galena, Gallium, Geochemical Data, Geochemical Surveys, Geochemistry, Germanium, Gobblers Knob, Gold, Granite, Greisen, Hafnium, Heavy Metals, Holmium, Igneous Rocks, Iron, Ishtalitna Creek, Kanuti Hot Springs, Kanuti Kilolitna River, Kanuti River, Kilo Hot Springs, Koyukuk Mining District, Lanthanide Elements, Lanthanum, Livengood Quadrangle, Lode, Lower Ray Hot Springs, Lutetium, Magnesium, Manganese, McQuesten Creek, Metabasite, Metals, Metamorphic Rocks, Metasedimentary rocks, Metavolcanic rocks, Mineral Assessment, Mineral Deposit, Mineral Resources, Molybdenum, Monazite, Mount Henry Eakin, Mount Tozi, Neodymium, Nickel, Niobium, No Name Creek, Non-Metals, Palladium, Pan Concentrates, Phosphorus, Placer, Placer Gold, Platinum, Platinum Group Elements, Potassium, Praseodymium, Precious Metals, Promethium, Prospect Creek, Rare Earth Elements, Ray Mountains, Ray River, Ray River Hot Springs, Ree, Resource Assessment, Resources, Rubidium, Samarium, Scheelite, Schist, Selenium, Silica, Silver, Sithylemenkat Lake, Sodium, Sphalerite, Strategic Minerals, Stream Sediments, Strontium, Sulfides, Sulfur, Tanana Quadrangle, Tantalum, Thallium, Thorium, Tin, Titanium, Tokusatatquaten Lake, Torment Creek, Tourmaline, Trace Elements, Trace Geochemical, Trace Metals, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Tungsten, Upper Ray Hot Springs, Uranium, Vanadium, Ytterbium, Zeunerite, Zinc, Zirconium, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

BLM REA YKL 2011 YKL DV H Alaska ARDFDataset ISER

Database of descriptions of mines, prospects, and mineral occurrences in Alaska.

Types: Downloadable; Tags: Ag, Al, Alaskan, As, Au, All tags... BLM, Bi, Bureau of Land Management, Co, Cr, Cu, DOI, Fe, Geology, Geospatial, Hg, Mg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Pt, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Sb, Sn, Te, Ti, U, YKL 2011, Yukon Kuskokwim, Zn, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, copper, economic geology, economy, geology, geoscientificInformation, gold, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mine, mineral, mineral occurence, mineral occurrences, minerals, mines, molybdenum, nickel, occurrence, occurrences, platinum, prospect, prospects, resource, resources, silver, tellurium, tin, titanium, uranium, zinc, Fewer tags

Geochemical Data Release for Idaho Primitive Area, including the contiguous Clear Creek-Upper Big Deer Creek Area, the Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, the Sawtooth Primitive Area, and adjacent areas, central Idaho (ver. 1.2, June 2022)

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release (ver. 1.2, April 2022) contains a set of previously unpublished geochemical data from project studies of primitive areas in central Idaho, including the Clear Creek-Upper Big Deer Creek Area, the Salmon River Breaks and Sawtooth Primitive Areas, and the Gospel-Hump Wilderness Area. The purpose of the USGS Idaho Primitive Area studies, conducted from 1966 to 1984, was to describe the geology, determine petrologic and geochemical characteristics, and evaluate the mineral resource potential of these primitive areas and adjacent study areas. In the case of the Idaho Primitive Area study (Cater and others, 1973), the primitive area covers 1,915 square miles; adjacent...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Big Deer Creek, Bitterroot National Forest, Blaine County, Boise County, Boise National Forest, All tags... Boise River, Camas County, Challis National Forest, Clear Creek, Clear Creek-Upper Big Deer Creek Area, Custer County, Elmore County, Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho, Idaho County, Idaho Primitive Area, Lemhi County, NGDB, National Geochemical Database, Nez Perce National Forest, Payette National Forest, Payette River, Salmon National Forest, Salmon River, Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, Salmon River Mountains, Sawtooth National Forest, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Sawtooth Primitive Area, Sawtooth Range, Sawtooth Wilderness, Stanley Basin, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, Valley County, Yellowjacket Mountains, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, cadmium, calcium, cerium, chemical analysis, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, environmental geochemistry, erbium, europium, exploration geochemistry, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, heavy metals, holmium, indium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mineral resources, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, pan concentrate, platinum, praseodymium, rhenium, rock geochemistry, samarium, scandium, sediment geochemistry, silver, stream sediment, strontium, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, unconsolidated deposits, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

BLM REA CYR 2013 Locations of Historic Mines in Central Yukon

This dataset was developed for the BLM Rapid Ecoregional Assessment for the Central Yukon and contains a database of descriptions of historic (inactive and closed) mines based on the Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF).

Types: Downloadable; Tags: Ag, Al, Alaskan, As, Au, All tags... BLM, Bi, Bureau of Land Management, CYR 2013, Central Yukon, Co, Cr, Cu, DOI, Energy, Fe, Geospatial, Hg, Mg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Pt, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Sb, Sn, Te, Ti, U, Zn, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, copper, economic geology, economy, geology, geoscientificInformation, gold, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mine, mineral, mineral occurence, mineral occurrences, minerals, mines, molybdenum, nickel, occurrence, occurrences, platinum, prospect, prospects, resource, resources, silver, tellurium, tin, titanium, uranium, zinc, Fewer tags

BLM REA CYR 2013 Locations of Active Mines in Central Yukon

This dataset was developed for the BLM Rapid Ecoregional Assessment for the Central Yukon and contains a database of descriptions of active mines based on the Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF).

Types: Downloadable; Tags: Ag, Al, Alaskan, As, Au, All tags... BLM, Bi, Bureau of Land Management, CYR 2013, Central Yukon, Co, Cr, Cu, DOI, Energy, Fe, Geospatial, Hg, Mg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Pt, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Sb, Sn, Te, Ti, U, Zn, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, copper, economic geology, economy, geology, geoscientificInformation, gold, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mine, mineral, mineral occurence, mineral occurrences, minerals, mines, molybdenum, nickel, occurrence, occurrences, platinum, prospect, prospects, resource, resources, silver, tellurium, tin, titanium, uranium, zinc, Fewer tags

OFR 14-90 - Source and Bedrock Distribution of Gold & Platinum-Group Metals in the Slate Creek Area, Northern Chistochina Mining District, East-Central Alaska. 1990.

Foley, J.Y., and Summers, C.A., 1990, Source and bedrock distribution of gold and platinum-group metals in the Slate Creek area, northern Chistochina mining district, east-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 14-90, 49 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:31,680.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: East-Central Alaska, Gold, Platinum

Geochemical data used in the tungsten skarn mineral resource assessment of the Great Basin region of western Nevada and eastern California

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has undertaken a mineral resources assessment for tungsten for a portion of the Great Basin in parts of western Nevada and east-central California. This data release provides the Great Basin Tungsten Database: the geospatial and geologic data, and results of chemical analyses for 46,955 samples collected in the assessment area, extracted from the USGS National Geochemical Database. These rock records were collected as part of various programs and projects at the USGS and analyzed from 1963 to 2015. The database represents rock records, each comprising one best value chemical determination for each analyzed chemical species, that include skarns, carbonate lithologies (for example,...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Great Basin, MRP, All tags... Mineral Resource Assessment Training Program, Mineral Resources Program, NGDB, National Geochemical Database, Nevada, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, aluminum, analytical chemistry, antimony, arsenic, atomic emission spectroscopy, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, calcium, carbon, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, critical minerals, dysprosium, economic geology, erbium, europium, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, holmium, indium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, metallic mineral resources, mineral deposits, mineral resources, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, rhenium, rhodium, rock geochemistry, rocks and deposits, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

OFR 45-85 - Platinum and Palladium in Some Mafic/Ultramafic Rocks from the Rabbit Creek Area in the Noatak Quadrangle, Alaska. 1985.

Preliminary Bureau of Mines studies of mafic igneous rocks collected from area, northwestern Alaska, indicated concentrations of the Rabbit Creek platinum (412 to 1,406 ppb) and palladium (343 to 892 ppb) in five of eight samples analyzed. The samples represent boulders and cobbles of mafic /ultramafic rocks from this locality. They are not from outcrop. Petrologically, (on the hand specimen scale) the samples are crudely to well -layered and are troctolitic + gabbroic in character, with primary igneous mafic minerals strongly altered. Small patches of interstitial sulfide minerals, including chalcopyrite, bornite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, and covellite are associated with these altered zones and elsewhere through the...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Noatak Quadrangle, Alaska, Palladium, Platinum

Laboratory data to assess the effect of nanoparticle size and natural organic matter composition on the bioavailability of platinum nanoparticles to a model freshwater invertebrate species

Data collected in a series of laboratory experiments conducted with juvenile freshwater snails (Lymnaea stagnalis) reared in the laboratory and exposed to dissolved platinum (Pt), or polyvinylpyrrolidone coated platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) of five different nominal hydrodynamic diameters in the presence (or absence) of natural organic matter (NOM) are presented in this data release. Files include 1) a data dictionary describing the variables; 2) exposure characteristics of the experimental solutions; 3) Pt concentrations in the experimental organisms; and 4) QA/QC performed during the analysis. Format of the files is comma delimited (*.csv). .

Categories: Data; Tags: Environmental Health, Geochemistry, Menlo Park, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, All tags... bioaccumulation, ecotoxicology, platinum, Fewer tags

WMR 017 - Rambler Mine. Albany County, Wyoming. 1942.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Albany County, Wyoming, Copper, Gold, Palladium, Platinum, All tags... Silver, Fewer tags

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Africa

This geodatabase reflects the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains by updating and publishing the georeferenced locations of mineral commodity production and processing facilities, mineral exploration and development sites, and mineral commodity exporting ports in Africa. The geodatabase and geospatial data layers serve to create a new geographic information product in the form of a geospatial portable document format (PDF) map. The geodatabase contains data layers from USGS, foreign governmental, and open-source sources as follows: (1) mineral production and processing facilities, (2) mineral exploration...

Tags: Africa, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, All tags... Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Cote D'Ivoire, Data Release, Djibouti, Economic Geology, Egypt, Electric Power, Electric Transmission Lines, Energy Resources, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, The, Geography, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Information Sciences, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mineral Commodities, Mineral Commodity, Mineral Exploration, Mineral Resources, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Petroleum Product Pipelines, Pipelines, Ports, Potash Deposits, Power Generating Facilities, Railroads, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Transmission Lines, Tunisia, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, calcium, chromium, coal, coal resources, cobalt, copper, critical minerals, culture and demographics, data integration, earth sciences, economic geology, economy, energy resources, environment, external research support, geographic information systems, geography, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, geothermal resources, gold, inlandWaters, interagency programs, interdisciplinary programs, international programs, iridium, iron, lead, lithium, location, magnesium, manganese, materials flow (commodities), metallic mineral resources, mineral deposits, mineral resources, mining and quarrying, natural gas resources, natural resource exploration, natural resource extraction, natural resources, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, nonmetallic mineral resources, oil resources, palladium, petroleum, phosphorus, platinum, platinum-group elements, potassium, rare earth elements, rhodium, ruthenium, selenium, silicon, silver, society, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, transportation, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF)

The Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF) is a database of mines, prospects, and mineral occurrences in Alaska. It contains information compiled from published and unpublished sources from industry, U.S. Bureau of Mines (BOM), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and other government and private sources. ARDF is not a mining claims database. ARDF is mainly focused on metallic commodities. Common industrial minerals or commodities, such as sand, gravel and crushed stone, and limestone are not included in ARDF, nor are energy minerals such as peat, coal, and oil and gas. However, uranium, thorium, and rare earth elements, as well as some high unit value industrial minerals, such as barite, jade, graphite, and gypsum, are included....

Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska, Earth science, Economic Geology, Mineral Resources, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... aluminum, antimony, arsenic, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, copper, economic geology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mine, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, molybdenum, nickel, ore deposit, platinum, prospect, silver, tellurium, tin, titanium, uranium, zinc, Fewer tags

TIMA-X bright phase analysis of platinum-group minerals in selected samples from the Chrome and Iron Mountain areas of the Stillwater Complex, Montana

Sulfide- and chromite-bearing samples of the Basal and Ultramafic series of the Stillwater Complex are known to contain elevated concentrations of platinum-group elements (PGE). Thin sections were prepared from drill core and surface samples from the Chrome and Iron Mountain areas. Core samples are from exploration drilling programs by AMAX in the 1960s and 1970s and Beartooth Platinum in 2004-2007. The degree to which PGE occur in the rocks as discrete platinum-group minerals was investigated using a TESCAN Integrated Mineral Analyser (TIMA-X) based on a TESCAN MIRA 3 field-emission scanning electron microscope coupled with an EDAX energy-dispersive spectrometer. TIMA-X combines backscattered electron (BSE) imaging...

Categories: Data; Tags: Chrome Mountain, Economic Geology, Mineral Resources, Montana, Stillwater, All tags... Sweet Grass, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ultramafic intrusive rock, palladium, platinum, Fewer tags

Rhenium Occurrences in the United States

This data release provides descriptions of more than 100 mining districts, mines, and mineral occurrences (deposits and prospects) within the United States that are reported to contain enrichments of rhenium (Re). These mineral occurrences include mined deposits, exploration prospects, and other occurrences with notable concentrations of rhenium. The inclusion of a particular mineral occurrence in this database is not meant to imply that it has economic potential. Rather, these occurrences were included to capture the distribution and characteristics of the known, reported rhenium occurrences in the United States. Rhenium is one of the rarest elements in the Earth's crust. Most rhenium occurs in the mineral molybdenite,...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alaska, Arizona, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, All tags... Idaho, Mineralogy, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, arsenic, cadmium, copper, economic geology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, indium, lead, location, manganese, mine, mine sites, mineral commodity, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, molybdenum, natural resource exploration, open pit mine, osmium, palladium, platinum, platinum-group elements, rare earth elements, rhenium, selenium, silver, sulfuric acid, surface workings, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, turquoise, underground workings, uranium, vanadium, zinc, Fewer tags