Minerals
Examples of how geological map data can be transformed to help society more efficently use our planet's natural resources.
Australia
- The
Australian Mines Atlas website
- Pdf maps with various commodity emphasis for mineral exploration.
- Online GIS websites for mineral explorers
- A 3D geological model of Tasmania
- The
Australian Marine Spatial Information System - for a variety of
offshore purposes
Brazil
- Geobank - database of Brazil geological survey
- Geoambiental
maps- GEOBANK - database - Brazil geological survey
Geological information that helps the management of the territory - scale (1:1.000.000).
Finland
France
- Ressources
minérales et développement durable (Mineral resources and sustainable
development)
No 1 Géosciences, la revue du BRGM pour une Terre durable
Issue 1 of BRGM’s journal for a sustainable Earth
Slovakia
Sweden
- Swedish
mineral and bedrock resources database
The mineral and bedrock resources database contains information concerning mineral, bedrock and hydrocarbon resources in Sweden. The database includes information on minor occurrences as well as deposits where metals, industrial minerals or bedrock have been or are being exploited economically. The amount and quality of information on each deposit in the database is highly variable. The following information is present for all deposits:
- name
- position (RT90)
- type of deposit
- commodity
- economic status
- literature references
At the present time the database comprises information on 11,500 deposits and is continuously updated. The present map service shows only a selection of information from the database.
- Swedish
ore deposit database
The Swedish ore deposit database contains information on the 260 largest metallic ores and mineralisations in Sweden. The database is the Swedish contribution to the Fennoscandian ore deposit database (FODD), a joint project between the Geological Surveys of Norway (NGU), Sweden (SGU), Finland (GTK) and Russia (VSEGEI and SC Mineral) with the purpose to create a common ore database for the Fennoscandian Shield.
The database contains information on the location of the deposits, the geology and mineralogy, present status, mining activites, grade and tonnages and referenses to the information.
UK
If you have other examples of an application of geological map data on the web, and would like your link included here, please let us know - onegeology@bgs.ac.uk.