Date (Creation)

2025-03

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608346

Maintenance and update frequency

annually Annually

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Commodity economics
• Pits
• Sand pits
• data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
• BGS Data Products
• Open cut mining
• Citable Data
• Quarrying
• Mines
• Mining
• Quarries

dataCentre

• data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
• Citable Data
• BGS Data Products

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

license

Other constraints

Either : (i) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under license; and / or (ii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted before the dataset can be provided to, or accessed by, BGS staff or external clients. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant access restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (IPR@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

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

The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section (iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk ) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

CHA

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

CHANNEL ISLES [id=192500]

Date (Creation)

1979

Geographic identifier

GBN

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]

Date (Creation)

1979

Geographic identifier

IOM

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

ISLE OF MAN [id=178000]

Date (Creation)

1979

Geographic identifier

NIR

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

NORTHERN IRELAND [id=181000]

Date (Creation)

1979

Begin date

1846

End date

2025-02

Unique resource identifier

ED50 / UTM zone 30N (EPSG::23030)

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Unique resource identifier

TM65 / Irish Grid (EPSG::29902)

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

• GeoPackage (.gpkg) ()

• JSON (.json) ()

• Comma separated variable (.csv) ()

• ESRI Shapefile (.shp) ()

OnLine resource

BGS Datasets - BritPits

OnLine resource

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

This digital archive of mining records held by the BGS, includes information from the Memoirs of the Geological Survey and Museum of Practical Geology (1846 -1872); the Mineral Statistics publications (1855 - 1986); the Inspectorate of Mines (1897, 1948 - 1993); the Directory of Mines and Quarries (1984 onwards) and the BGS Geology 50 (Geological mapping at 1:50,000 scale). The BritPits v3 dataset is processed following the instruction provided in document ‘BGS BritPits v3 Methodology Report’ Internal Report: IR/24/026

File identifier

2f1caed6-f33a-77c7-e063-0937940a99f1 XML

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2025-11-13

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608346