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Ni-Co laterite deposits of the world

Location, type, mineralogy, name, tonnage and grade, and geological setting for 120 deposits of this type.

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laterite.kml (uncompressed 131k bytes)

laterite.kmz (compressed 7k bytes)

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https://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/laterite (WMS, version 1.3.0)

https://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/wfs/laterite (WFS, version 1.1.0)

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laterite-csv.zip (zipped shapefile with attributes as comma-delimited text 85k bytes)

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Publication

Ni-Co laterite deposits of the world--database and grade and tonnage models
Berger, Vladimir I., Singer, Donald A., Bliss, James D., and Moring, Barry C., 2011, Ni-Co laterite deposits of the world--database and grade and tonnage models: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1058, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111058.

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