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World phosphate mines, deposits, and occurrences

Location, geologic characteristics, and commodities for 1,635 phosphate mines, deposits, or occurrences worldwide

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phosphate.kml (uncompressed 1.2M bytes)

phosphate.kmz (compressed 48k bytes)

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phosphate-csv.zip (zipped shapefile with attributes as comma-delimited text 233k bytes)

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Publication

Data set of world phosphate mines, deposits, and occurrences-- Part A. Geologic data; Part B. Location and mineral economic data
Chernoff, Carlotta B., and Orris, Greta J., 2002, Data set of world phosphate mines, deposits, and occurrences-- Part A. Geologic data; Part B. Location and mineral economic data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2002-156, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr02156.

Related topics

Economic geology, Geospatial datasets, Nonmetallic mineral resources, Phosphorus
Mineral deposit areas, Mine sites
Phosphorus-Phosphates
Comma-delimited text, DBF, KML, Shapefile, Tab-delimited text