MAS/MILS Arc/Info point coverage for the western U.S. (excluding Hawaii)
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Abstract
The U.S. Geological Survey has two international and one regional digital database that contains information on mineral properties. This report describes the conversion of selected data from one of the international databases - MAS/MILS (Mineral Availability System/Mineral Industry Location System) - into a spatial data product. The MAS/MILS database, obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) upon its closure, contains over 221,000 records of mineral properties and processing facilities throughout the world. However, the majority of the records in the database are of sites located in the western U.S. This is due to the extensive mineral activity that has occurred in the West, and the work done by mineral professionals in the Western, Alaska, and Intermountain Field Operations Centers of the USBM.
The purpose of this project was to create a spatial coverage of the western U.S. containing mineral resource information. This coverage includes information for the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. For this report, locations from MAS/MILS were converted to a point coverage using a geographic information system (GIS). All work was done using Arc/Info v. 7.0.4. There are 128,441 points in the coverage.
Study Area
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | MAS/MILS Arc/Info point coverage for the western U.S. (excluding Hawaii) |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 98-512 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr98512 |
| Year Published | 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Contributing office(s) | Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center |
| Description | Report: iii, 24 p.; Readme; Metadata; Deposit dictionary and manual; Complete digital package; Dataset; Additional datasets; Additional files; Map files: HPGL2 format; Map files: EPS format |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming |
| Datum | North American Datum 1927 |
| Projection | Albers equal-area conic projection |
| Scale | 5000000 |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | Y |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |