Mines and Prospects

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Commercial
Yes
Format
GeoPackage
Coverage
Worldwide, mostly the United States, 304,613 sites
Last updated
Added to findgis 27 Oct 2026

Mineral sites from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System.

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Source and attribution

Publisher
USGS Mineral Resources Data System
License
Public domain
Commercial use
Yes
Attribution required
No
Modification allowed
See publisher
Redistribution allowed
See publisher
Share-alike
No
U.S. government work. CartaTerra notes the source file is frozen around 2011. The MRDS download page returned HTTP 502 during this check, so the original-source link is the MRDS metadata page, which responded.
Region
Global
Type
Vector
Extent
-180-9018090West, south, east, north. Approximate region extent.

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