Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits

Information on VMS deposits from around the world with new grade and tonnage models for three subtypes of VMS deposits and data allowing locations of all deposits to be plotted using GIS.

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vms.kml (uncompressed, 2.1 megabytes)
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http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/vms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.1.1

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Get the entire data set: vms.zip (603 kb zipped shapefile expands to 9Mb)
vms-csv.zip (391 kb zipped comma-delimited text expands to 2.2 Mb)

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Publication:

USGS Open-File Report 2009-1034: Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of the world; database and grade and tonnage models
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1034/

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