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Reston
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within the U.S. This database contains the records previously
provided in the Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS) of USGS and the
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of USGS.
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several decades by hundreds of researchers and reporters. While
database records describe mineral resources worldwide, the
compilation of information was intended to cover the United States
completely, and its coverage of resources in other countries is
incomplete.
The content of MRDS records was drawn from reports previously
published or made available to USGS researchers. Some of those
original source materials are no longer available.
The information contained in MRDS was intended to reflect the
reports used as sources and is current only as of the date of those
source reports. Consequently MRDS does not reflect up-to-date
changes to the operating status of mines, ownership, land status,
production figures and estimates of reserves and resources, or the
nature, size, and extent of workings. Information on the
geological characteristics of the mineral resource are likely to
remain correct, but aspects involving human activity are likely to
be out of date.
This digest of the complex mineral resources database is intended
for use as reference material supporting mineral resource and
environmental assessments on local to regional scale worldwide.
Hundreds of people have contributed to the development of MRDS and
MAS/MILS over several decades. The present digest owes much of its
coherence to Bill Ferguson, Bruce Lipin, and Paul Schruben of USGS.
Peter N Schweitzer
USGS Geology, Energy, and Minerals Science Center
Geologist
703-648-6533
703-648-6252
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston
VA
20192-0002
US
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This dataset was prepared by an agency of the United States
Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency
thereof, nor any of their employees, make any warranty, expressed or
implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the
accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus,
product, or process disclosed in this report, or represents that its
use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference therein to
any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name,
trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute
or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United
States Government or any agency thereof. Any views and opinions of
authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of
the United States Government or any agency thereof.
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179.54917
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80.0
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Date when information was extracted from the main database.
2016-03-15
Current status: As of 2011, USGS has ceased systematic updates to
MRDS, and is working to create a new database, focused primarily on
the conterminous US. For locations outside the United States, MRDS
remains the best collection of reports that USGS has available. For
locations in Alaska, the Alaska Resource Data File remains the most
coherent collection of such reports and is in continuing
development.
A small number of records (about 600) were updated slightly to
support USGS studies in the western U.S. related to a land use
change proposed by the Bureau of Land Management.
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Collected over many decades, this information is highly variable
in quality. Currency of individual records is variable as well,
so it is likely that some information will be found to be out of
date. This is a subject of continuing refinement by the USGS and
its cooperators.
Collected and reported by numerous diverse people, the descriptions
provided are not highly consistent in structure or terminology.
Recent revision of the MRDS database has begun to address this
issue, and the present database digest contains fields chosen for
their general consistency, though much work remains to be done.
The database is generally sparse; many records have no information
for a given field. A few fields required for proper processing
are complete throughout. The number of records lacking data in
each field is shown in the list below with the percent of records
lacking data for that field:
>Field Missing values
>Label Number Percent
>-----------------------------------
>DEP_ID 0 0.0
>MRDS_ID 149235 49.0
>MAS_ID 110652 36.4
>SITE_NAME 0 0.0
>LATITUDE 4033 1.3
>LONGITUDE 4033 1.3
>REGION 58555 19.2
>COUNTRY 58555 19.2
>STATE 58762 19.3
>COUNTY 65215 21.4
>DISTRICT 254769 83.7
>ADMIN 299777 98.5
>LAND_STAT 114367 37.6
>COM_TYPE 34 0.0
>COMMOD1 22335 7.3
>COMMOD2 285184 93.7
>COMMOD3 239278 78.6
>OPER_TYPE 0 0.0
>DEP_TYPE 269516 88.6
>PROD_SIZE 194976 64.1
>DEV_STAT 0 0.0
>ORE 236479 77.7
>GANGUE 272740 89.6
>OTHER_MATL 294207 96.7
>OREBODY_FM 264927 87.1
>WORK_TYPE 238249 78.3
>MODEL 292387 96.1
>ALTERATION 289757 95.2
>CONC_PROC 293637 96.5
>PREV_NAME 241287 79.3
>ORE_CTRL 279810 91.9
>REPORTER 36 0.0
>HROCK_UNIT 268180 88.1
>HROCK_CODE 236050 77.6
>AROCK_UNIT 291593 95.8
>AROCK_CODE 278263 91.4
>STRUCTURE 280348 92.1
>TECTONIC 285058 93.7
>REF 25211 8.3
Positional information is highly variable. In the best cases
this information was provided by plotting the location on a 7.5
minute topographic map, however many records were located on
the basis of published reports containing imprecise or scant
information on the specific geographic location. Approximately
4000 records have no reliable geographic coordinates, although
about 114 of those have other locational information systematic
enough to warrant placement within the controlled vocabulary
used to select data for analysis on the web.
Conversion of MRDS and MAS/MILS for use as a combined minerals
database within the Oracle relational database management system
proceeded under the general supervision of Bruce Lipin of USGS.
Review of many database fields resulted in significant
simplification, harmonization among records within these databases
and between the databases, and elimination of duplicate records.
The resulting relational database is currently maintained by
William Ferguson under the supervision of Paul Schruben.
This transition occurred from approximately 1996 through 2004.
2004
Paul G Schruben
USGS ER GD
703-648-6142
703-648-6383
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston
VA
20192-0002
US
pschrube@usgs.gov
DDS-52
Internal RDBMS
Select fields and tables from the Oracle RDBMS are extracted using
the script pull.php to produce local copies of the tables
containing only those fields needed to produce the current digest.
The script combine.php draws data from these local tables to
create a single monolithic table with one row per mineral resource
record.
At this writing a number of corrections are made to the data given
for the form of orebodies. These changes include the elimination
of the useless value "SEE DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION COMMENTS", the
elimination of empty parentheses from most records, replacement of
the abbreviation 'IRREG' with the more common complete value
'IRREGULAR', and especially a complex analysis of most values
originating in the MAS/MILS database. These changes are described
by the script orebody-fix.php.
Additional modifications are made to the geographic locations of
about 4300 records whose coordinates are given in the source
database as the South Pole. These coordinates are replaced with
NULL values in the current database. The data selection software
in the current distribution web site allows some of these records
to be retrieved because some of the records contained additional
information linking them to specific geographic areas. These
changes are carried out by the script place-fix.php.
Information about host rocks and associated rocks was subject to
additional correction using the SQL statements in fix-rock.php.
This table is used to create the GIS shapefiles and other formats
available for download.
2005
Peter N Schweitzer
U.S. Geological Survey, ER
Geologist
703-648-6533
703-648-6252
Mail Stop 954
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston
VA
20192
US
pschweitzer@usgs.gov
Internal RDBMS
A small number of records (about 560) were updated to reflect
work in and around the area of concern from the Wyoming Land
Conservation Initiative. The records in question were added,
deleted, or modified by Anna Wilson of USGS.
2016-01-07
Deleted 10096613;
Updated 10133306, 10206596, 10230343, 10305546
Five more records ere changed to reflect
work in and around the area of concern from the Wyoming Land
Conservation Initiative. The records in question were added,
deleted, or modified by Anna Wilson of USGS.
2016-01-27
Deleted 75 records, updated 1090 records
The records in question were added, deleted, or modified by Anna Wilson of USGS.
Updated record 10303371 at the request of the site owner.
2016-01-29
Deleted 2 records, updated 4 records
Deleted 10036970 and 10249686; these were geochemical observations, not actual mineral resource reports.
Modified 10080767, 10090610, 10169488, and 10230223 to improve geographic location, references, and a few comments.
The records in question were deleted, or modified by Anna Wilson of USGS.
2016-03-15
Updated plss_coordinates in 10294773, replacing section 25 with south half of section 29, after examining figure 7 of the reference, U.S. Bureau of Mines MLA 44-88.
2017-03-21
Previous publication of the MRDS data
Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS)
DDS-20
1996
1
George T. Mason, Jr.
Raymond E. Arndt
U.S. Geological Survey
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series
DDS-20
Period in which information was added to the MRDS.
1968
1998
Previously published versions of MRDS and MAS/MILS
U.S. Geological Survey mineral databases; MRDS and MAS/MILS
DDS-52
2000
McFaul, Edward J.
Mason, George T.
Ferguson, William B.
Lipin, Bruce R.
U.S. Geological Survey
Reston, Virginia
U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series
DDS-52
ISBN: 0607940212
https://store.usgs.gov/
publication date
2000
This version of the database is the source for the current digest.
Mineral Resource Data System
Internal RDBMS
2005
U.S. Geological Survey
relational database for internal development and refinement
Period during which the data were migrated from the original
databases to the Oracle RDBMS.
1996
2005
304632
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Mineral resource records
USGS
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OBJECTID_1
OBJECTID_1
OID
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0
0
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
Shape
Geometry
0
0
0
Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
DEP_ID
Deposit identification number.
A unique 12-digit system generated sequence number which references
records of information pertaining to a mineral property.
Textual values of no more than 12 characters.
this dataset
@@
SITE_NAME
Name of the site, deposit, or operation.
Current (preferred) form of the name of the site, deposit, or
operation to which the record refers.
Textual values of no more than 70 characters.
this dataset
@@
DEV_STAT
Development status.
Status of development of the resource or operation.
Textual values of no more than 25 characters.
this dataset
Occurrence
Ore mineralization in outcrop, shallow pit or pits, or isolated drill hole. Grade, tonnage, and extent of mineralization essentially unknown. No production has taken place and there has been no or little activity since discovery with the possible exception of routine claim maintenance.
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Prospect
A deposit that has gone beyond the occurrence stage. That is subsequent work such as surface trenching, adits, or shafts, drill holes, extensive geophysics, geochemistry, and/or geologic mapping has been carried out. Enough work has been done to at least estimate grade and tonnage. The deposits may or may not have undergone feasibility studies that would lead to a decision on going into production.
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Producer
A mine in production at the time the data was entered. An intermittent producer that produces on demand or seasonally with variable lengths of inactivity is considered a producer.
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Past Producer
A mine formerly operating that has closed, where the equipment or structures may have been removed or abandoned.
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Plant
A processing plant (smelter, refiner, beneficiation, etc.) that may or may not be currently producing at the time of data entry. A plant will have no geological information associated with it.
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Unknown
At the time of data entry, either the development status was unknown or the data source this record came from did not specify this value.
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CODE_LIST
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OBJECTID
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Good
Field2
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Bad
Field3
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4
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Grade
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dataset
EPSG
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Simple
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TRUE
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