Approximate locations and short descriptions of mines, deposits, and districts where critical minerals are found. The critical minerals are discussed in USGS Professional Paper 1802, and many of these locations are described in further detail in that report.
Show in a web browser window:
Show in Google Earth or other KML viewer:
pp1802.kml (uncompressed 1.1M bytes)
pp1802.kmz (compressed 107k bytes)
Show in your GIS using OGC web services:
Service, version | URL | Capabilities document |
---|---|---|
WMS, version 1.3.0 | https://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/pp1802 | Capabilities |
WFS, version 1.1.0 | https://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/wfs/pp1802 | Capabilities |
Download data for geographic areas you choose
Get the entire data set:
PP1802_Global_CriticalMinerals_gdb.zip (File geodatabase 6M bytes)
PP1802_CritMin_Shapefiles.zip (Shapefile 165k bytes)
Metadata:
About the database tables and fields