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Minerals4EU ~ UK mineral resources

A collection of industrial and construction minerals and metallic deposits, onshore and offshore, resources data for the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, including bedrock sand and gravel aggregates, igneous and metamorphic aggregates, limestone aggregates, offshore sand and gravel aggregate, sandstone aggregate, superficial sand and gravel aggregates, ball clay, barytes, bauxite, brick clay, calcite, cement, fireclay, fluorspar, fullers earth, gypsum anhydrite, industrial limestones and dolomites, kaolin, perlite, potash, salt, silica, talc and serpentine, metallic mineral resources and prospects, igneous and metamorphic building stone, limesone building stone, sandtone building stone. Data is mostly polygon data with the exception of the metallic mineral resource prospects, which are presented as points.

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Alternate title
M4EU
Date (Publication)
2015-06
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608635
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Mineral Resources
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Mineral resources
  • Minerals
dataCentre
  • EGDI
  • data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
licenceOGL
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Other constraints
There are no restrictions on the use that may be made of the dataset, although an appropriate copyright acknowledgement must be made when any part of the dataset is reproduced. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Denominator
625
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
GB

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
UK [id=139300]

Date (Creation)
1979

Geographic identifier
UKM

Date (Revision)
2009

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End date
2015-03
Supplemental Information
Data was compiled as contribution to a project funded by European Commission, under the 7th Framework Program (Grant agreement ID: 608921). Data originally compiled as ESRI Shapefiles, then ingested into PostgreSQL database which is backend of the BGS EN MINERALS service.
Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
Unique resource identifier
TM65 / Irish Grid (EPSG::29902)
Distribution format
  • GML ( application/gml+xml; version=3.2 )

  • GML ( text/xml; subtype=gml/3.2.1 )

Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
OnLine resource
BGS EN MINERALS ( OGC:WFS-2.0.0-http-get-capabilities )

Complex Feature OGC WFS for feature types relating to Mineral Occurrences in Europe; data comes from multiple sources (including Minerals4EU)

OnLine resource
Minerals Intelligence Network for Europe ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Details of the Minerals4EU project

OnLine resource
Exploration for Metalliferous and Related Minerals in Britain: A Guide 2nd Edition, Colman TC, Cooper P (2000) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Second edtion of report used as a source for some of the presented data

Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Other
dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
No
Statement
Data collated as part of the Minerals4U project ~ primarily utilising the 1:625K geology data. For metallic deposits an alternative approach was utilised i.e using as a starting point Figure 21 from Exploration for Metalliferous and Related Minerals in Britain: A Guide Colman, T.B (1990) which depicts metalliferous ore fields; data was supplemented by point data extracted from the BGS Mineral occurrences database.
File identifier
4af3bb6d-9431-eadf-e063-3050940ae7d6 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2026-05-04
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608635
 
 

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