Ferrous Metal Processing Plants

ISO-19139 Metadata

Metadata Information

Metadata language: eng

Metadata character set: utf8

Last update: 2017-12-18

Metadata constraints:

Security constraints:

Classification: unclassified
Classification system: None
Additional restrictions on handling the resource: None

Metadata contact:

Role: pointOfContact

Organization's name: National Atlas of the United States

Contact information:

Phone:

Voice: 703-648-4183

Address:

Delivery point: MS-561
Delivery point: 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
City: Reston
Administrative area: VA
Postal code: 20192
e-mail address: atlasmail@usgs.gov

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: 1513606141454r5526659390576798

Data Identification Information

Resource citation:

Title: Ferrous Metal Processing Plants

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2005-12-01

Presentation format: mapDigital

Cited responsible party:

Role: publisher

Organization's name: National Atlas of the United States

Contact information:

Address:

Delivery point: Reston, VA

Cited responsible party:

Role: originator

Organization's name: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact information:

Themes or categories of the resource: economy

Descriptive keywords:

Place keywords:

Keywords: United States, CONUS

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.

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Descriptive keywords:

Theme keywords:

Keywords: Manganese, Cobalt, Ferrous metals, Tantalum, Minerals operations, Columbium, Processing plants, Nickel, Mines, Chromium, Rhenium, Tungsten, Iron, Molybdenum, Minerals, Silicon, Mining operations

Descriptive keywords:

Theme keywords:

Keywords: Economy

Keyword thesaurus:

Title: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Date:

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Descriptive keywords:

Keyword type not provided

Keywords: Downloadable Data

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Citation reference: 723f6998-058e-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66

Abstract: This data set includes ferrous metal processing plants 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: 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.

Spatial representation type: vector

Processing environment: Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.4.1.5686

Resource extent:

Geographic element:

Bounding rectangle:

West longitude: -172.2104466194957
East longitude: -48.99524570847016
North latitude: 72.13987479310855
South latitude: 9.51394551586608

Resource extent:

Extent description: ground condition

Temporal element:

Temporal extent:

2003-01-01

Resource extent:

Geographic element:

Bounding rectangle:

Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -123.062
East longitude: -71.214
North latitude: 47.662
South latitude: 27.804

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/ or http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant 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: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact information:

Address:

Delivery point: 983 National Center
City: Reston
Administrative area: VA
Postal code: 20192

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier:

Value: 4326
Code space: EPSG
Version: 6.14(3.0.1)

Data Quality

Scope of quality information:

Level of the data:dataset

Resource lineage:

Process step:

When the process occurred: 2005-11-01T00:00:00
Description: AMIS 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 plants was converted to a text file. The text file was loaded into ArcView and a shapefile was created.

Process step:

When the process occurred: 2016-10-31T00:00:00

Description: New records were identified in aggregated dataset found via public download: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant. Validated that mines existed and were accurate.Queried and exported out additional records from aggregated dataset. Appended to existing data in Excel. Appended a total of 9 new records. Modified attribute names: MINOP4X020 to MINERAL_OPERATIONS_ID COMPANY_NA to COMPANY_NAME STATE_LOCA to STATE PLANT_MIN to PLANT_MINE Changed letter casing of Commodity to COMMODITY Transferred from ArcGIS metdata format to FGDC metadata format. Standardized the abbreviation of MT to Mount within the COMPANY_NAME field.

Processor:

Role: pointOfContact

Organization's name: HIFLD Support Team

Contact information:

Source:

Level of the source data: Minerals operations descriptions

Source citation:

Title: Automated Minerals Information System (AMIS)

Date:

Cited responsible party:

Source extent:

Extent description: ground condition

Temporal element:

Temporal extent:

2003-01-01

Source:

Level of the source data: The USGS Minerals Yearbook (MYB) contains statistical data and Information about approximately 90 commodities. Active operations were identified from tables and text in the MYB.

Source citation:

Title: U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Yearbook Volume 1

Date:

Reference date - publication: 2004-01-01

Cited responsible party:

Source extent:

Extent description: Ground condition

Temporal element:

Temporal extent:

2003-01-01

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.

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Distribution Information

Distributor:

Distributor contact:

Role: distributor

Organization's name: Earth Science Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey

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

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 Additional Contact: https://answers.usgs.gov/

Distribution order process:

Terms and fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the data set.
Turnaround time: Distributor assumes no liability for misuse of data.

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
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