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.
dataset
BGS EN MINERALS
- Complex Feature OGC WFS for feature types relating to Mineral Occurrences in Europe; data comes from multiple sources (including Minerals4EU)
Minerals Intelligence Network for Europe
- Details of the Minerals4EU project
Exploration for Metalliferous and Related Minerals in Britain: A Guide 2nd Edition, Colman TC, Cooper P (2000)
- Second edtion of report used as a source for some of the presented data
:
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608635
English
Geoscientific information
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0:
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences:
Mineral resources
Minerals
Free:
NERC_DDC
-11.8100,
48.2100,
4.7000,
61.0200
GB, UK [id=139300], UKM
publication: 2015-06
unknown
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2015-03
vector
British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth,
NOTTINGHAM,
NG12 5GG,
United Kingdom
tel: 0115 936 3143
email:
[email protected]
Role: distributor
British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth,
NOTTINGHAM,
NG12 5GG,
United Kingdom
tel: 0115 936 3143
email:
[email protected]
Role: point of contact
Data Quality
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.
Equivalent Scale:
1:
625
INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Mineral Resources
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Constraints
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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.
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British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth,
NOTTINGHAM,
NG12 5GG,
United Kingdom
tel: +44 115 936 3100
email:
[email protected]
Role: point of contact
2026-03-02