Active mines and mineral plants in the US

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant/

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Active mines and mineral plants in the US

Mine plants and operations for commodities monitored by the National Minerals Information Center of the USGS. Operations included are those considered active in 2003 and surveyed by the USGS. View: Show in a web browser window:

Continental US Show in Google Earth or download KML: KML, uncompressed, 3.3M bytes KMZ, compressed, 171K bytes Show in your GIS using OGC WMS: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=GetCapabilities& service=WMS&version=1.1.1 Download: Download data for geographic areas you choose Search by site name, US state, or commodity Get the entire data set mineplant.zip (327 kb zipped shapefile expands to 1.85 Mb) mineplant-csv.zip (189 kb zipped comma-delimited text expands to 695 kb) Documentation: Metadata: [Outline] - [Questions & Answers] - [Plain text] About the database fields All database fields, by category Database field categories
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Active mines and mineral plants in the US

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant/

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