Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS)

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references. It includes the original MRDS and MAS/MILS data.

MRDS is large and complex. This service provides a subset of the database comprised of those data fields deemed most useful and which most frequently contain some information.

• Database documentation (metadata)
• About the database fields
  • All database fields, by category
  • Database field categories
• Getting the data
  • Select data for one or more geographic areas
  • Download entire data set (30 Mb zipped shapefile expands to 1.3 Gb)
  • Viewing MRDS in Google Earth
  • Search by site name, US state, or commodity - OR - Search outside US