NoraResearchLab/masmils-global-mineral-resource-intelligence
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MAS/MILS Global Mineral-Resource Intelligence, Modernized
1,846 mineral-property and processing-facility point features derived from MAS/MILS (Minerals Availability System / Mineral Industry Location System), originally built by the U.S. Bureau of Mines and transferred to USGS in
- No geological reinterpretation or machine-learning modelling is performed — attributes and geometries are preserved as sourced; only the container format and schema are modernized.
Data Provenance & Known Limitations
MAS/MILS was built by the U.S. Bureau of Mines and transferred to USGS in 1996 upon the Bureau's closure. The full database held over 221,000 records worldwide with close to 100 fields, originally distributed on CD-ROM (Data Series 52). This modernization run used whichever spatial export was actually discoverable/reachable at run time (see source_report above); it may represent a subset (e.g. the western U.S. only, 128,441 of the 221,000+ records) rather than the complete global database, depending on what was available when this notebook was run.
Source used for this run: Fetched from: https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/0512
Contents
geoparquet/masmils_points.parquet— point features (EPSG:4326)metadata.json— provenance, citations, full MAS/MILS field dictionary reference, column list, license
Columns Present in This Export
MAS/MILS Field Dictionary (Reference)
See metadata.json → masmils_field_dictionary_reference for definitions of standard MAS/MILS fields (not all fields are necessarily present in every export — see Columns Present above for what this specific file contains).
Source & Citation
Causey, J.D., 1998, MAS/MILS Arc/Info point coverage for the western U.S. (excluding Hawaii): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-512, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr98512
Original Database Citation
McFaul, E.J., Mason, G.T., Ferguson, W.B., and Lipin, B.R., 2000, U.S. Geological Survey mineral databases: MRDS and MAS/MILS: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 52, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds52
License
Public Domain (U.S. Government work)