This dataset includes locations and associated information about mines and mining activity in the contiguous United States. The database was developed by combining publicly available national datasets of mineral mines, uranium mines, and minor and major coal mine activities. This database was developed in 2013, but temporal range of mine data varied dependent on source. Uranium mine information came from the TENORM Uranium Location Database produced by the US Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in 2003. Major and minor coal mine information was from the USTRAT (Stratigraphic data related to coal) database 2012, and the mineral mine data came from the USGS Mineral Resource Program.

List of mines and quarries in the UK including information about operational status, products, lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, pit and operator addresses, minerals planning authority. Digital data has been sold from the BritPits database, since 1994, this has been customised to suit purchasers. Use is also made of sets of operational workings data by Bureau Services who pay royalties and get updates. Older data on operators tends to be incomplete as it was not recorded. Updating is ongoing to update litho- and chronostrat data. Originally, only details of currently active sites were included in the database but, because of the importance of former workings for waste disposal and as Sites of Special Scientific Interest, information is now collected on both inactive and closed operations. The data is held in a relational database using an Oracle server and a Microsoft Access front-end. The database can be used for many purposes: mailing lists, route planning, market intelligence/analysis, and resource planning, and data has been supplied to a wide range of customers.

These data we devised and used in the following papersAhmed, A.I., Massam, M.R., Bryant, R.G. and Edwards, D.P., 2025. How much deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa has been caused by mining?. Biological Conservation, 304, p.111040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111040Ahmed, A.I., Bryant, R.G. and Edwards, D.P., 2021. Where are mines located in sub Saharan Africa and how have they expanded overtime?. Land Degradation & Development, 32(1), pp.112-122. 10.1002/ldr.3706The mine database and mine footprint data (an *xlxs file and a zipped *shp file) include a combination of mine data for sub-saharan africa (e.g. location, commodity, mine operator, and active dates) from sources outlined in Ahmed et al., (2021), as well from a process of manual digitising and mapping of mine footprints using high resolution remote sensing data. The methods used to generate this initial suite of information are outlined in Ahmed et al., (2021). A sub-set of these mine locations were used in Ahmed et al. (2025) to study the impacts of these mine operations on deforestation.

Lists all Coal and Metal/Non-Metal mines under MSHA's jurisdiction. Including current status of each mine (Active, Abandoned, Nonproducing, etc.), the current owner and operating company, commodity codes and physical attributes of the mine. Mine ID is the unique key for this data. (Includes Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed Mines)

Coal Mine Information System Features includes 3 distinct layers: Mine Entries, Surface Mines, and Underground Mines. Please see the information below for each layer. For additional information, please visit the DNR Division of Reclamation's Coal Mine Information System website.Coal Mine Entries includes the locations of underground coal mine entrances in the coal region of west-central and southwestern Indiana. Coal_Mine_Entries_DNR_IN is a compilation of all documented underground coal mine entrances in Indiana. Coal_Mine_Entries_DNR_IN was compiled by the Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) as part of a contract deliverable for the Abandoned Mine Lands program of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Reclamation. Coal_Mine_Entries_DNR_IN incorporates mine entrance locations compiled as part of the Indiana Coal Mine Information System (CMIS), an integrated geographic information system (GIS) and database management system (DBMS) created to store, analyze, and help distribute coal mine data in Indiana. The system contains data for surface and underground coal mines that operated in Indiana from the mid-1830s to 2007. Original source information for Coal_Mine_Entries_DNR_IN includes company mine maps, field maps and notes of IGS geologists, IGS publications, and Reports of the Indiana State Mine Inspector. All mine data included in Coal_Mine_Entries_DNR_IN are organized in a GIS using ESRI ArcGIS software of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) on the Windows platform. Scale of source data ranges from 1:4,800 to 1:100,000.Surface Mines includes the location and extent of surface coal mines in the coal region of west-central and southwestern Indiana. Coal_Mine_Surface_DNR_IN is a composite of all surface mine locations in Indiana. It was compiled by the Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) as part of a contract deliverable for the Abandoned Mine Lands program of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Reclamation. Coal_Mine_Surface_DNR_IN incorporates surface mine locations compiled by the IGS in the early 1980s with contemporary mine outlines digitized from affected-area maps collected from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Reclamation and maps collected from the Indiana Bureau of Mines. Original source information for Coal_Mine_Surface_DNR_IN includes company mine maps, field maps and notes of IGS Geologists, IGS publications, several series of aerial photographs, and U.S. Geological Survey 7.5-minute quadrangle maps. All mine data included in Coal_Mine_Surface_DNR_IN are organized in a GIS using ArcGIS software of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) on the Windows platform. Scale of source data ranges from 1:4,800 to 1:100,000. Coal_Mine_Surface_DNR_IN includes attributes which allow the mine polygons to be differentiated based on mine number, source information, and dates of mining.Underground Mines includes the location and extent of underground coal mines in the coal region of west-central and southwestern Indiana. Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN is a composite of all underground mine locations in Indiana. It was compiled by the Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) as part of a contract deliverable for the Abandoned Mine Lands program of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Reclamation. Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN incorporates underground mine locations compiled by the IGS in the early 1980s with hundreds of historic underground mine locations digitized in 1998-1999 and contemporary mine outlines digitized from maps collected from coal companies or the Indiana Bureau of Mines. Original source information for Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN includes company mine maps, field maps and notes of IGS geologists, IGS publications, and Indiana State Mine Inspector Reports. All mine data included in Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN are organized in a GIS using ESRI ArcGIS software of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) on the Windows platform. Scale of source data ranges from 1:4,800 to 1:100,000. Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN includes attributes which allow the mine polygons to be differentiated based on mine type, mine number, source information, and dates of mining.DATA DISCLAIMER: These data were compiled by Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Reclamation, using data believed to be accurate; however, a degree of error is inherent in all data. This product is distributed "AS-IS" without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of suitability of a particular purpose or use. No attempt has been made in either the designed format or production of these data to define the limits or jurisdiction of any federal, state, or local government. These data are intended for use only at the published scale or smaller and are for reference purposes only. They are not to be construed as a legal document or survey instrument. A detailed on-the-ground survey and historical analysis of a single site may differ from this data.

The National Mine Map Repository (NMMR) maintains point locations for mines appearing on maps within its archive. This dataset is intended to help connect the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, other federal, state, and local government agencies, private industry, and the general public with archived mine maps in the NMMR's collection. The coordinates for mine point locations represent the best information the NMMR has for the location of the mine. As much as possible, the NMMR strives to find precise locations for all historic mines appearing on mine maps. When this is not possible, another feature as close to the mine as is known is used. This information is reflected in the mine point symbols. However, the NMMR cannot guarantee the accuracy of mine point locations or any other information on or derived from mine maps. The NMMR is part of the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE). The mission of the NMMR is to preserve abandoned mine maps, to correlate those maps to the surface topography, and to provide the public with quality map products and services. It serves as a point of reference for maps and other information on surface and underground coal, metal, and non-metal mines from throughout the United States. It also serves as a location to retrieve mine maps in an emergency. Some of the information that can be found in the repository includes: Mine and company names, Mine plans including mains, rooms, and pillars, Man-ways, shafts, and mine surface openings. Geological information such as coal bed names, bed thicknesses, bed depths and elevations, bed outcrops, drill-hole data, cross-sections, stratigraphic columns, and mineral assays. Geographical information including historic railroad lines, roads, coal towns, surface facilities and structures, ponds, streams, and property survey lines, gas well and drill-hole locations. Please note: Map images are not available for download from this dataset. They can be requested by contacting NMMR staff and providing them with the desired Document Numbers. NMMR staff also have additional search capabilities and can fulfill more complex requests if necessary. See the NMMR website homepage for contact information: https://www.osmre.gov/programs/national-mine-map-repository. There is no charge for noncommercial use of the maps. Commercial uses will incur a $46/hour research fee for fulfilling requests.

This data set covers global extraction and production of coal and metal ores on an individual mine level. It covers
1171 individual mines, reporting mine-level production for 80 different materials in the period 2000-2021. Furthermore, also data on mining coordinates, ownership, mineral reserves, mining waste, transportation of mining products, as well
as mineral processing capacities (smelters and mineral refineries) and production is included. The data was gathered manually from more than 1900 openly available sources, such as annual or sustainability reports of mining companies. All datapoints are linked to their respective sources. After manual screening and entry of the data, automatic cleaning, harmonization and data checking was conducted. Geoinformation was obtained either from coordinates available in company reports, or by retrieving the coordinates via Google Maps API and subsequent manual checking. For mines where no coordinates could be found, other geospatial attributes such as province, region, district or municipality were recorded, and linked to the GADM data set, available at www.gadm.org.

The data set consists of 12 tables. The table “facilities” contains descriptive and spatial information of mines and processing facilities, and is available as a GeoPackage (GPKG) file. All other tables are available in comma-separated values (CSV) format. A schematic depiction of the database is provided as in PNG format in the file database_model.png.

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County Coal Data and MapsThe Coal Resource Maps include structural elevation, depth, thickness, sulfur, and chlorine maps of the Colchester, Danville, Davis, Dekoven, Herrin, Jamestown, Seelyville, and Springfield Coals. The Coal Mine Maps are maps compiled by the ISGS of known mines: underground and surface coal mines as well as underground industrial mines. Buffer regions for industrial mineral underground mines were incorporated into the maps due to limited information regarding these mines. The size of the buffer region is dependent on the uncertainty or inaccuracy of the mine location based on the quality of the source material. For more information regarding industrial mines please contact the ISGS Industrial Minerals Section. The accompanying coal mine directory for each county provides basic information about the coal mines. Coal has been mined in 77 counties in Illinois and more than 7,400 coal mines have operated since commercial mining began in 1810. Our maps of known mines for each of these counties may help the public to identify mined areas. Please note, however, that the accuracy and completeness of the mine maps and directories vary depending on the availability and quality of source material. Little or no information is available for many mines, especially the older ones, because mining activity was not regulated or documented until the late 1800's. Even then, reporting requirements were minimal. In cooperation with the Illinois State Geological Survey, the Office of Mines and Minerals (a division of the Department of Natural Resources) is in search of old underground mine maps of Illinois. Many of the undocumented maps are believed to be in libraries, historical societies and personal files of old mine employees. The Department asks that anyone who knows of one of these maps, please contact the Department at (618) 650-3197 or by emailing brent.guttmann@illinois.gov(link sends e-mail). A map specialist will come to your location, if you wish. Otherwise maps can be mailed, or you may stop by one of our offices in Edwardsville, Springfield, Ottawa, or Benton. These maps will be checked against our existing inventory. If found to be a new discovery, they will be electronically imaged and returned to the owner (if requested). The Coal Logs are non-confidential coal log descriptions from the Coal Section's stratigraphic database located in the county. These are part of the basis for the coal resource maps. NOTE: A 1:100,000 scale county mine map with directory is available for purchase and can be ordered by contacting the ISGS at (217) 244-2414, or email at sales@prairie.illinois.edu(link sends e-mail). A 1:24,000 scale color plot version of each available quadrangle with directory is also available for purchase. The County Coal Resource maps have been supported, in part, by the contract Maintenance of Coal Resource and Mine Data from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Office of Mines and Minerals. Note: These maps are made available at this time in draft form only. They have not yet been reviewed to the normal standards of the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) review process. They are made available in this manner as an "open file" in order to deliver products to our customers as fast as possible and to meet particular needs that we have encountered in public requests for this information. These maps are PDF files, requiring Adobe Acrobat™ for viewing. (Download Acrobat).

Feature layer showing the mining districts, county general files, and state of Nevada files for the mining districts databases. Each polygon has related records with detailed information and links to PDF documents, if applicable.

Please credit the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno when using any of our products. We request that you observe any copyright or disclaimer notices that may accompany these data in addition to the Creative Commons license. For specific publications, please use the suggested citation listed on the publication when available. For general datasets, please credit the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno.

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Abstract

This dataset was derived by the Bioregional Assessment Programme. The parent datasets are identified in the Lineage field in this metadata statement. The processes undertaken to produce this derived dataset are described in the History field in this metadata statement.

Spatial layer depicting known mine point locations as at Feb 2016. Includes in the attribute table information about mines (eg opencut/underground, owner/operator, date opened etc..) taken from the source database.

Purpose

Created for the purpose of showing mine locations and status in report maps.

Dataset History

Tabular data from the source dataset was reformatted to enable it to be read into ArcGIS. An X Y event layer was then created using the the co-ordinate data (lat long) provided and a spatial later created.

Dataset Citation

Bioregional Assessment Programme (2016) SSB master list coal mines and deposits 20160203 spatial. Bioregional Assessment Derived Dataset. Viewed 18 June 2018, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/bb331c3f-56ca-4fb3-a841-b8103cebb452.

Dataset Ancestors

• Derived From SSB master list coal mines and deposits 20160203

Outlines of areas mined for the Wade Coal in Illinois. Mining in this seam ceased ca. 1940. This information was extracted from detailed coal mine data stored in the ISGS Coal Section library database. Lines delineate the approximate outer boundary of individual mines (if known) or general mined areas. Interior mine boundaries such as pillars or small blocks of unmined coal are commonly not depicted. Outlines have been compiled from a variety of sources. Outlines of areas mined before 1987 are commonly from source maps at scales of 1:62,500 or smaller. Outlines of areas mined since 1987 are commonly digitized at scales ranging from 1:4800 to 1:12,000. Mines whose extent is not known or which only mined a few acres are not included in this coverage. Additional information is available from the Coal Section of the Illinois State Geological Survey. Mine outlines from completed Coal Mine Quadrangle Studies were included in this feature class if applicable. An ongoing study, the detailed Coal Mine Quadrangle maps depict the best-known position of mine boundaries with respect to individual properties as located on a USGS topographic map image base. For a list of completed quadrangles please visit the ISGS Coal Section website or contact the Coal Section. This datafile was compiled and updated in 2014 in order to provide a current, state-wide data set showing surface and underground coal mines of the Wade Coal. Due to the wide range of source map scales, these data are suitable for regional applications only at the 1:100,000 scale or smaller.

Abandoned railroads and infrastructure from the anthracite coal mining industry are significant features in abandoned mine lands and are an important part of history; however, these features are often lost and masked by the passage of time and the regrowth of forests. The application of modern light detection and ranging (lidar) topographic analysis, combined with ground-truthing "boots on the ground" mapping, enable recovery of the location of these historical features. Waste rock piles and abandoned mine lands from historical mining locally appear as distinct features on the landscape depicted on the percent slope map. Abandoned, and in many places demolished, infrastructure such as breakers, turntables, rail beds, water tanks, tram piers, and bridge abutments, to name a few, were confirmed in the field and located with a global positioning system (GPS) receiver. This map captures the locations of many of the abandoned features from the coal mining industry near Forest City, Pen ...

Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN is a composite of all underground mine locations in Indiana. It was compiled by the Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) as part of a contract deliverable for the Abandoned Mine Lands program of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Reclamation. Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN incorporates underground mine locations compiled by the IGS in the early 1980s with hundreds of historic underground mine locations digitized in 1998-1999 and contemporary mine outlines digitized from maps collected from coal companies or the Indiana Bureau of Mines. Original source information for Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN includes company mine maps, field maps and notes of IGS geologists, IGS publications, and Indiana State Mine Inspector Reports. All mine data included in Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN are organized in a GIS using ESRI ArcGIS software of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) on the Windows platform. Scale of source data ranges from 1:4,800 to 1:100,000. Coal_Mine_Underground_DNR_IN includes attributes which allow the mine polygons to be differentiated based on mine type, mine number, source information, and dates of mining.

The Critical Minerals in Archived Mine Samples Database (CMDB) contains chemistry and geologic information for historic ore and ore-related rock samples from mineral deposits in the United States. In addition, the database contains samples from archetypal deposits from 27 other countries in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Samples were obtained from archived ore collections under the U.S. Geological Survey's project titled “Quick Assessment of Rare and Critical Metals in Ore Deposits: A National Assessment” (2008 to 2013) in an effort to begin an assessment of the Nations' previously mined ore deposits for critical minerals. Mineralized and altered rock samples were provided by the Colorado School of Mines—Ransome collection, Mackay School of Mines—Stanford and Keck collections, and by the personal collections of Don Bryant and David Leach.

description: This is a spatial database that delineates mining-related features in areas of historic and active phosphate mining in the core of the southeastern Idaho phosphate resource area. The data has varying degrees of accuracy and attribution detail. The breakdown of areas by type of activity at active mines is detailed; however, the disturbed areas at many of the closed or inactive mines are not subdivided into specific categories detailing the type of activity that occurred.; abstract: This is a spatial database that delineates mining-related features in areas of historic and active phosphate mining in the core of the southeastern Idaho phosphate resource area. The data has varying degrees of accuracy and attribution detail. The breakdown of areas by type of activity at active mines is detailed; however, the disturbed areas at many of the closed or inactive mines are not subdivided into specific categories detailing the type of activity that occurred.

This data set provides the boundaries of mining titles (títulos mineros concedidos) for Colombia. The shapefiles are compiled by Tierra Minada, a Colombian civil society group, utilizing information from the Colombian Mining Registry, which is maintained by the National Mining Agency. For more information about the data sets, visit the Tierra Minada website or Colombia’s Mining Cadaster Portal.

Please see the individual layers below to access the detailed metadata.This feature layer contains three datasets:The Mining Boreholes dataset contains GIS points depicting mining boreholes digitized from the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) Illinois Mineral Development Atlas (IMDA) for Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Each point includes a link to a corresponding log (if available). This is one of several datasets complied for the Karst Feature Database of Jo Daviess County, IL and hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.The named mines dataset contains GIS polygons depicting surveyed outlines of known (named) mine diggings from the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) Illinois Mineral Department Atlas (IMDA) for Jo Daviess County, Illinois. This is one of several datasets complied for the Karst Feature Database of Jo Daviess County, IL and hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.The unnamed mines dataset contains GIS polygons depicting unsurveyed inferred outlines of unknown (unnamed) mine diggings from the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) Illinois Mineral Development Atlas (IMDA) for Jo Daviess County, Illinois. This is one of several datasets complied for the Karst Feature Database of Jo Daviess County, IL and hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Generates reports on mine's ownership, inspections, accidents, violations, VPID, POV, and Health Samples history. 20 various flat files, uploaded every Friday, are under section Explore MSHA Datasets.

These data are part of a larger USGS project to develop an updated geospatial database of mines, mineral deposits and mineral regions in the United States. Mine and prospect-related symbols, such as those used to represent prospect pits, mines, adits, dumps, tailings, etc., hereafter referred to as “mine” symbols or features, are currently being digitized on a state-by-state basis from the 7.5-minute (1:24, 000-scale) and the 15-minute (1:48, 000 and 1:62,500-scale) archive of the USGS Historical Topographic Maps Collection, or acquired from available databases (California and Nevada, 1:24,000-scale only). Compilation of these features is the first phase in capturing accurate locations and general information about features related to mineral resource exploration and extraction across the U.S. To date, the compilation of 400,000-plus point and polygon mine symbols from approximately 51,000 maps of 17 western states (AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY an ...