Earth MRI focus area category service

This web services provides category information for focus areas of the initiative Earth MRI. Given a combination of input parameters, the response will indicate which values of the parameters that were not specified are present in focus areas that do match the specified input parameters.

GeoJSON web service

Service URL

https://mrdata.usgs.gov/earthmri/focus-areas/focus-category.php

Input parameters

Possible values of the input parameters are given in the corresponding array returned from a call to https://mrdata.usgs.gov/earthmri/focus-category.php.

minsystem	Mineral system name.
deptype	Deposit type.
critmin	Critical mineral (by name).
mineral	Mineral name.
commodity	Commodity name.
state	State name.
callback	This parameter is used by Javascript libraries to request information in JSONP format.

Output

In JSON, each object contains properties as follows:

minsystem	Array of names of mineral systems in records matching the input criteria.
deptype	Array of deposit type names in records matching the input criteria.
critmin	Array of critical mineral names in records matching the input criteria.
mineral	Array of mineral names in records matching the input criteria.
commodity	Array of mineral commodity names in records matching the input criteria.
state	Array of the names of states in records matching the input criteria.

Example in JSON

https://mrdata.usgs.gov/earthmri/focus-areas/focus-category.php?minsystem=IOA-IOCG&state=New%20York