Metadata: Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 2005 Title: Active Mines and Mineral Processing Plants in the United States in 2003 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant/ Online_Linkage: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=getcapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.1.1& Online_Linkage: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=getcapabilities&service=WFS&version=1.0.0& Description: Abstract: This data set includes mineral and metal operations in the United States. The data represent commodities monitored by the National Minerals Information Center of the USGS, and the operations included are those considered active in 2003 and surveyed by the MIT. Purpose: The digital data set of the National Minerals Information Center is used to create electronic and hard copy maps that depict various mineral or metal mine and/or processing locations on a national map. The data can be used to conduct graphic analysis on national and large regional scales. Supplemental_Information: Additional mineral and metal operations information can be obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center web page at: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/ Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 2003 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -162.865000 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -67.659000 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 68.070000 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 19.628500 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: minerals Theme_Keyword: metals Theme_Keyword: mines Theme_Keyword: mining operations Theme_Keyword: mineral operations Theme_Keyword: metal operations Theme_Keyword: Aluminum Theme_Keyword: Asbestos Theme_Keyword: Ball clay Theme_Keyword: Barite Theme_Keyword: Bentonite Theme_Keyword: Beryllium Theme_Keyword: Bismuth Theme_Keyword: Boron Theme_Keyword: Bromine Theme_Keyword: Cadmium Theme_Keyword: Cement Theme_Keyword: Chromium Theme_Keyword: Cobalt Theme_Keyword: Columbium Theme_Keyword: Niobium Theme_Keyword: Copper Theme_Keyword: Diatomite Theme_Keyword: Dimension Stone Theme_Keyword: Feldspar Theme_Keyword: Fullers Earth Theme_Keyword: Garnet Theme_Keyword: Gemstones Theme_Keyword: Gold Theme_Keyword: Gypsum Theme_Keyword: Industrial Sand and Gravel Theme_Keyword: Iron ore Theme_Keyword: Iron oxide Theme_Keyword: Kaolin Theme_Keyword: Kyanite Theme_Keyword: Lead Theme_Keyword: Lime Theme_Keyword: Lithium Theme_Keyword: Magnesite Theme_Keyword: Magnesium compounds Theme_Keyword: Manganese Theme_Keyword: Mercury Theme_Keyword: Mica Theme_Keyword: Molybdenum Theme_Keyword: Nickel Theme_Keyword: Niobium (Columbium) Theme_Keyword: Olivine Theme_Keyword: Peat Theme_Keyword: Perlite Theme_Keyword: Phosphate rock Theme_Keyword: Platinum-group metals Theme_Keyword: Potash Theme_Keyword: Pumice Theme_Keyword: Rare-earth metals Theme_Keyword: Rhenium Theme_Keyword: Rubidium Theme_Keyword: Salt Theme_Keyword: Selenium Theme_Keyword: Silica Theme_Keyword: Silicon Theme_Keyword: Silver Theme_Keyword: Soda Ash (Trona) Theme_Keyword: Sodium sulfate Theme_Keyword: Strontium Theme_Keyword: Sulfur Theme_Keyword: Synthetic Mullite Theme_Keyword: Talc Theme_Keyword: Tellurium Theme_Keyword: Thorium Theme_Keyword: Tin Theme_Keyword: Titanium metal Theme_Keyword: Titanium mineral Theme_Keyword: Titanium pigment Theme_Keyword: Trona (Soda Ash) Theme_Keyword: Tungsten Theme_Keyword: Vanadium Theme_Keyword: Vermiculite Theme_Keyword: Wollastonite Theme_Keyword: Zeolites Theme_Keyword: Zinc Theme_Keyword: Zircon Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Place_Keyword: United States Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Place_Keyword: Alaska Place_Keyword: Alabama Place_Keyword: Arkansas Place_Keyword: Arizona Place_Keyword: California Place_Keyword: Colorado Place_Keyword: Connecticut Place_Keyword: Delaware Place_Keyword: Florida Place_Keyword: Georgia Place_Keyword: Hawaii Place_Keyword: Idaho Place_Keyword: Iowa Place_Keyword: Illinois Place_Keyword: Indiana Place_Keyword: Kansas Place_Keyword: Kentucky Place_Keyword: Louisiana Place_Keyword: Maine Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Place_Keyword: Maryland Place_Keyword: Michigan Place_Keyword: Minnesota Place_Keyword: Missouri Place_Keyword: Mississippi Place_Keyword: Montana Place_Keyword: North Carolina Place_Keyword: North Dakota Place_Keyword: Nebraska Place_Keyword: New Hampshire Place_Keyword: New Jersey Place_Keyword: New Mexico Place_Keyword: Nevada Place_Keyword: New York Place_Keyword: Ohio Place_Keyword: Oklahoma Place_Keyword: Oregon Place_Keyword: Pennsylvania Place_Keyword: Rhode Island Place_Keyword: South Carolina Place_Keyword: South Dakota Place_Keyword: Tennessee Place_Keyword: Texas Place_Keyword: Utah Place_Keyword: Vermont Place_Keyword: Virginia Place_Keyword: Wisconsin Place_Keyword: Washington Place_Keyword: West Virginia Place_Keyword: Wyoming Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: None. Acknowledgment of the National Minerals Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, government of the United States of America would be appreciated in products derived from these data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Robert Callaghan Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 983 National Center City: Reston State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 20192 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-7709 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: rcallaghan@usgs.gov Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722 Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: No tests for logical consistency were performed on this data set. Completeness_Report: This data set includes only U.S. mineral and metal operations monitored by the National Minerals Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey and considered currently active in 2003. No energy minerals operations (for example, coal) are included. Aggregates operations are limited to those producing over 30,000 tons per year in 2002. Peat operations in Alaska are not included. Placer deposits (gold) in Alaska are not included. Clay operations (ball clay, common clay) may have many satellite pits, not all of which are specifically included. An attempt was made to add locations that may be considered representative of the companies. Plants are limited to operations considered primary -- those which process a mineral or metal to create the first raw material from which products are made. Downstream operations (operations that reprocess a raw material into another raw material or final product) and recycling operations are not included. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: Unpublished Material Title: Automated Minerals Information System (AMIS) Type_of_Source_Media: Internal USGS server Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1997 Ending_Date: 2005 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: AMIS Source_Contribution: Minerals operations descriptions Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 2004 Title: USGS Minerals Yearbook -- 2003 Online_Linkage: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/ Type_of_Source_Media: online Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 2003 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Minerals Yearbook 2003 Source_Contribution: The USGS Minerals Yearbook (MYB) contains statistical information on over 90 commodities. These reviews summarize activity in the commodity. From tables and other information in the MYB lists of active operations were determined. Process_Step: Process_Description: AMIS contains both proprietary and nonproprietary information. For each commodity, the National Minerals Information Center extracted from AMIS the nonproprietary information useful for this application and placed this information in a separate database. This information includes company name, site name, county, state, and coordinates. This information is reported by the company with the exception of coordinates, which have been added by the MIT in an ongoing process that began in 1997. Latitude and longitude for each operation was obtained from at least one of the following sources: Minerals Availability System/Minerals Industry Location System (MAS/MILS) CD-ROM, U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication 12-95, web searches using general internet search services (queries by company name or name of the specific operation), company contact, map interpolation, and searches of the EPA database at http://www.epa.gov/enviro.html/multisystem_query_java.html Whenever possible the location information was checked for accuracy and added to the AMIS database. After 2003 coordinates being added were checked, or obtained, when possible using USGS air photos available through Microsoft Terraserver (http://terraserver-usa.com). Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: AMIS Process_Date: 2005 Process_Step: Process_Description: Records extracted from AMIS were compared to information available in the National Minerals Information Center's 2003 Minerals Yearbook and were reviewed by commodity specialists to create the 2003 Active Mines and Plants dataset. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Minerals Yearbook 2003 Process_Date: 2005 Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Indirect_Spatial_Reference: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the United States, and Associated Areas FIPS 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. U.S. Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas, (FIPS 6-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 6738 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.01 Longitude_Resolution: 0.01 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927 Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866 Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.400000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.978698 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: Active Mines and Mineral Processing Plants in 2003 Entity_Type_Definition: Locations of active mines and mineral processing plants in 2003 Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center. Attribute: Attribute_Label: COMMODITY Attribute_Definition: The mineral(s) and/or metal(s) produced or processed by the facility. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: Mineral Commodity Summaries 2006, or http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/ Codeset_Source: U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center Attribute: Attribute_Label: ID Attribute_Definition: internal feature number Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 1 Range_Domain_Maximum: 6842 Attribute: Attribute_Label: SITE_NAME Attribute_Definition: Name of the location; may be the name of the mine or plant or the nearest locality Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: There is no predefined set of standard site names. Attribute: Attribute_Label: COMPANY_NA Attribute_Definition: The name of the company operating at the location. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: There is no predefined set of standard company names. Attribute: Attribute_Label: STATE_LOCA Attribute_Definition: State in which the site is located Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Codeset_Source: http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/ Attribute: Attribute_Label: COUNTY Attribute_Definition: County in which the operation is located. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas. (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 6-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Codeset_Source: http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/ Attribute: Attribute_Label: LATITUDE Attribute_Definition: The latittude of the operation in decimal degrees. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 19 Range_Domain_Maximum: 68 Attribute: Attribute_Label: LONGITUDE Attribute_Definition: The longitude of the site in decimal degrees Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: -162.865 Range_Domain_Maximum: -67.659 Attribute: Attribute_Label: PLANT_MIN Attribute_Definition: Whether the operation is a mine, a plant, or both Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center. Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: M Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The operation is a mine Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: P Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The operation is a plant Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: M/P Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The facility is both a mine and a plant Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Peter Schweitzer Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 954 National Center City: Reston State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 20192 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-6533 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pschweitzer@usgs.gov Resource_Description: Downloadable Data Distribution_Liability: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: ESRI shapefile Format_Version_Number: 1.0 Format_Information_Content: Mine and plant locations and characteristics File_Decompression_Technique: unzip Transfer_Size: 0.4 megabytes Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant/mineplant.zip Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: OGC WMS Format_Version_Number: 1.1.1 Format_Information_Content: Mine or plant locations and characteristics Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=getcapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.1.1& Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: OGC WFS Format_Version_Number: 1.0.0 Format_Information_Content: Mine or plant locations and characteristics Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=getcapabilities&service=WFS&version=1.0.0& Fees: none Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20100923 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Robert Callaghan Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 987 National Center City: Reston State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 20192 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703 648 7709 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: rcallaghan@usgs.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Time_Convention: local time