1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Earth MRI
  4. Focus areas

Earth MRI data focus area services

This web service provides publicly-available information about focus areas for studies of the initiative Earth MRI whose characteristics match a specific mineral system, deposit type, commodity, or state.

GeoJSON web service

Service URL
https://mrdata.usgs.gov/earthmri/focus-areas/focus-search.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.
mineral Other mineral.
commodity Commodity name.
state State name.
format Output format, json, xml, or html. Parameter name may be abbreviated as f. Default is json. Value is not case sensitive.
callback This parameter is used by Javascript libraries to request information in JSONP format.
Output

In JSON, output conforms to the GeoJSON specification and contains a FeatureCollection object. Each object in the features array describes one project. Properties of the projects are as follows:

newid Unique identifier for the table row, text beginning with a character code including the region but otherwise devoid of intrinsic scientific significance.
focusarea Name assigned to the focus area.
region Geographic region in which the focus area is located.
subregion Geographic subregion in which the focus area is located.
minsystem Array of names of mineral systems expected to have produced mineral deposits in the focus area.
deptype Array of deposit type names expected to occur in the focus area.
critmin Array of critical mineral names expected to occur in the focus area.
mineral Array of other mineral names expected to occur in the focus area.
commods Array of mineral commodity names expected to occur in the focus area.
states Array of the names of states intersecting the focus area.

Example in JSON

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