Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits

Information on VMS deposits from around the world with new grade and tonnage models for three subtypes of VMS deposits and data allowing locations of all deposits to be plotted using GIS.

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vms.kml (uncompressed 2.1 megabytes)

vms.kmz (compressed 68k bytes)

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

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

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vms-csv.zip (zipped shapefile with attributes as comma-delimited text 484k bytes)

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Publication

Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of the world; database and grade and tonnage models

Mosier, Dan L., Berger, Vladimir I., and Singer, Donald A., 2009, Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of the world; database and grade and tonnage models: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1034, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091034.