Catalog
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Critical and Major Mineral Deposits
OpenL3Data productMineralsInstallations
Mines, deposits and districts of critical minerals worldwide (antimony, beryllium, cobalt, gallium, germanium, graphite, lithium, niobium, PGE, rare earths, tin, tungsten, vanadium and others) from USGS Professional Paper 1802, with the major deposits of Africa, China and South and Southwest Asia that hold a critical mineral. Sites in North America and its surrounding waters are not included.
USGS Mineral Resources Program
Category
Places and installations
Update cadence
—
Latency
—
Archive
2017 – present
Instruments
Deposit records
Sources
USGS Mineral Resources Program
Formats
GeoJSON, File geodatabase
Pricing
Free
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
IRI
terrafabric.world/id/collection/usgs-critical-mineral-deposits
Access
Open data, retrieved directly from the source under its licence.
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
No restrictions on use; citation requested.
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