MRData: Global

Mineral Resources Online Spatial Data: Interactive maps and downloadable data for regional and global Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Mineral Resources.

Mineral Resources
Mineral resources (MRDS)
legend for MRDS
Location names
Major mineral deposits of the world
legend for major deposits by commodity
Location names
Critical minerals
legend for critical minerals by commodity
Location names
Global Cu Assessment
Porphyry Cu permissive tracts
legend for sediment-hosted copper permissive tracts
Porphyry Cu deposits
legend for porphyry copper deposits, prospects, and groups
Sediment-hosted Cu permissive tracts
legend for sediment-hosted copper permissive tracts
Sediment-hosted Cu deposits
legend for sediment-hosted copper deposits, prospects, and groups
Mineral Deposit Types
Volcanogenic Massive Sulfides
legend for volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits by type
Sediment-hosted Zn-Pb
legend for sediment-hosted Zn-Pb deposits
Sed-Ex and MVT
legend for Mississippi Valley-Type and clastic-dominated sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits by type
Porphyry Cu
legend for Porphyry copper deposits by type
Sediment-hosted Cu
legend for Sediment-hosted copper deposits by type
Ni-Cr PGE
legend for PGE-Ni-Cr deposits and occurrences by type
Carbonatites
legend for carbonatites
Rare Earth Elements
legend for Rare earth element deposits
Ni-Co Laterites
legend for Ni-Co laterite deposits
Asbestos (US)
legend for Asbestos mines, prospects, and occurrences
Phosphates
legend for World phosphate mines, deposits, and occurrences
South Asian Phosphates
legend for Phosphate occurrence by type
Podiform Chromite
legend for volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits by type
Sediment-hosted Au
legend for Sediment-hosted gold deposits
Evaporite-hosted Potash
legend for Evaporite-related potash resources by type
Geology and Geophysics
Geologic units
legend for GSC geologic units
Geologic contacts
Geologic structure
legend for GSC geologic structure
Geochemistry
NGDB Rock geochemistry
legend for NGDB rock geochemistry
NGDB Sediment geochemistry
legend for NGDB sediment geochemistry
NGDB Soil geochemistry
legend for NGDB soil geochemistry
NGDB Concentrate geochemistry
legend for NGDB concentrate geochemistry
Geographic reference
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