Ferrous Metal Mines

ISO-19139 Metadata

Metadata Information

Metadata language: eng
Metadata character set: utf8
Last update: 2017-09-21
Metadata contact:
Role: pointOfContact
Organization's name: National Atlas of the United States
Contact's position: point of contact
Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 703-648-4183
Address:
Delivery point: MS-561
City: Reston
Administrative area: VA
Postal code: 20192
Country: US
e-mail address: atlasmail@usgs.com
Scope of the data described by the metadata: dataset
Name of the metadata standard used: NAP - Metadata
Version of the metadata standard: 1.2
Metadata identifier: 1513604793678r44620058783077243

Data Identification Information

Resource citation:
Title: Ferrous Metal Mines
Date:
Reference date - publication: 2005-12-01
Presentation format: mapDigital
Cited responsible party:
Themes or categories of the resource: economy
Descriptive keywords:
Place keywords:
Keywords: CONUS, USA, Continental United States
Keyword thesaurus:
Title: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4): Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Date:
Cited responsible party:
Descriptive keywords:
Theme keywords:
Keywords: Economy, Iron, Processing Plants, Nickel, Mining Operations, Minerals Operations, Ferrous Metals, Minerals, Cobalt, Mines, Rhenium, Molybdenum
Keyword thesaurus:
Title: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Date:
Cited responsible party:
Descriptive keywords:
Keyword type not provided
Keywords: Downloadable Data
Keyword thesaurus:
Citation reference: 723f6998-058e-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66
Abstract: This data set includes ferrous metal mines in the United States. The data represent commodities covered by the Minerals Information Team (MIT) of the U.S. Geological Survey, and the operations are those considered active in 2003 and surveyed by the MIT. This is a replacement for the November 1998 map layer.The data is legacy and not expected to be updated. It is being provided as the best available until Mineral Resources identifies an alternative data source.
Purpose: This data set is intended for geographic display and analysis at the national level, and for large regional areas. The data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:2,000,000-scale data. No responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey or the National Atlas of the United States in the use of these data.
Dataset language:eng
Dataset character set: utf8
Status: completed
Resource maintenance:
Update frequency: irregular
Resource constraints:
General constraints:
Limitations of use: Access Constraint: None (Public Domain Information) Use Constraint: None (Public Use) Acknowledgment of the National Atlas of the United States of America and (or) the U.S. Geological Survey would be appreciated in products derived from these data.
Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Limitations of use: Distributor assumes no liability for misuse of data. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. No responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data.
Other constraints: None (Public Domain Information)
Resource constraints:
Security constraints:
Classification: unclassified
Spatial representation type: vector
Processing environment: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959
Resource extent:
Geographic element:
Bounding rectangle:
West longitude: -173.1233119635409
East longitude: -50.753254291542625
North latitude: 71.85740033735435
South latitude: 6.918761079607631
Resource extent:
Geographic element:
Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -114.553
East longitude: -87.597
North latitude: 47.662
South latitude: 31.871
Supplemental information: Additional minerals operations information can be obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Information web page at http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/. If you are using this dataset as a shapefile, please be aware that it was converted from a Geodatabase. As a result, this shapefile may have attribution and metadata errors resulting from the conversion process. The following are known issues: null values may have been changed to 0s (zeros) or to blank values, numbers (including latitude and longitude) may have been rounded up or down, there may be issues with Unicode character strings, and time cannot be stored in a date field. Field names may have been truncated to no longer than 10 characters or completely changed, lengthy string attributes may have been truncated to 254 characters, and attribute columns may have been deleted. Shapefiles do not support coded domains and subtypes therefore the original file geodatabase attribution and metadata information for coded domains and subtypes could be incorrect or missing in the shapefile version. Please visit the following ESRI website for more information: http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/appendices/geoprocessing-considerations-for-Shapefile-output.htm
Credits: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Resource point of contact:
Role: pointOfContact
Organization's name: USGS, National Atlas of the United States
Contact's position: Publisher/Point of Contact
Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 703-648-7709
Address:
Delivery point: 983 National Center
City: Reston
Administrative area: VA
Postal code: 20192
Country: US

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier:
Value: 4326
Code space: EPSG
Version: 8.6.2

Data Quality

Scope of quality information:
Level of the data:dataset
Resource lineage:
Process step:
Description: New records were identified in aggregated dataset found at: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant.. Validated online that plants existed. Queried and exported out additional records from aggregated dataset. Appended to existing data in Excel. Appended a total of 5 new records. Modified attribute names: Renamed MINOP4X020 to MINERAL_OPERATIONS_ID, COMPANY_NA to COMPANY_NAME, STATE_LOCA to STATE, PLANT_MIN to PLANT_MINE.
Processor:
Role: processor
Organization's name: HIFLD Support Team
Contact information:
Process step:
When the process occurred: 2005-11-01T00:00:00
Description: Automated Minerals Information System (AMIS) is an internal USGS database server that contains both proprietary and nonproprietary information. For each commodity, the Minerals Information Team (MIT) extracted from AMIS the nonproprietary information useful for this application and placed this information in a separate MicroSoft Excel spreadsheet. The MIT determined latitude and longitude for each mineral operation from at least one of the following sources: > Minerals Availability System/Minerals Industry Location System > (MAS/MILS) CD-ROM, U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication 12-95 > http://www.yahoo.com Searches performed on company or operation > name. > http://www.switchboard.com Searches performed on company or > operation name. > http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/multisystem_query_java.html Searches > performed on company or operation name. > Whenever possible the locational information was checked for accuracy. The minerals operations were then placed in commodity groupings. The resulting MicroSoft Excel spreadsheet containing ferrous metal mines was converted to a text file. The text file was loaded into ArcView and a shapefile was created.
Processor:
Role: processor
Organization's name: USGS
Contact's position: originator
Contact information:
Data quality report:
Conceptual consistency:
Measure produced by the test: No tests for logical consistency were performed on this map layer.
Data quality result:
Data quality report:
Completeness omission:
Measure produced by the test: This category includes only economically significant U.S. minerals operations covered by the Minerals Information Team of the U.S. Geological Survey and considered currently active in 2003. No energy minerals operations are included. No secondary (recycling, "downstream") operations are included. This map layer shows plants and (or) mines in the United States.
Data quality result:

Distribution Information

Distributor:
Distributor contact:
Role: distributor
Organization's name: Earth Science Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Contact's position: distributor
Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 1-888-ASK-USGS (1-888-275-8747)
Voice: 703-648-5920
Address:
Delivery point: 507 National Center
City: Reston
Administrative area: VA
Postal code: 20192
Country: US
Contact instructions: In addition to the address above there are other ESIC offices throughout the country. A full list of these offices is at http://geography.usgs.gov/esic/esic_index.html
Distribution order process:
Terms and fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the data set.
Distribution format:
Format name: File Geodatabase Feature Class
Format version:
Distribution format:
Format name: Vector Digital Data Set (Point)
Format version:
Transfer options:
Online distribution information:
Online location: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.1.1
Connection protocol:
Online distribution information:
Online location: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant/mineplant.zip
Connection protocol:
Online distribution information:
Online location: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/myb
Connection protocol: