usgs_critmin_deposits_v3commodityOfficial surveyAuthoritative
USGS Critical-Mineral Deposits
USGS
1,271 U.S. deposits hosting one or more critical minerals; location, mineral system, deposit type, critical-commodity list, development category
Source
How it's published
Feed (what to expect)
Static ScienceBase shapefile bundle (critical_mineral_deposits_v3.zip); the attribute table in its .dbf is the deposit table
- Cadence
- static (version 3.0; v2 was withdrawn from the same item)
- Access
- free ScienceBase download via shapefile bundle; DOI 10.5066/P9K1HBNT
- Format
- CSV (zipped: Critical_mineral_deposits_table_v2_csv.zip containing main deposit
- Licence
- public domain
- Vintage
- 2025
- Upstream
- https://doi.org/10.5066/P9K1HBNT
Quirks
- Main CSV carries UTF-8 BOM (decode with utf-8-sig); bare .csv on item 404s (use
- Includes companion references table; parser ignores references
Curated critical-mineral-focused US deposit inventory; complements
Reconciliation
Role in the canonical graph
- Authority tier
- Official survey
- Provenance
- Authoritative
- Canonicality
- tier 1
- Primary for
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- Contributes IDs
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- Name-block matching
- trusted
- Reconcile profile
- default (tier 1)
Schema
What it feeds & emits
Feeds (axes)
Supply
Record kinds
DepositOccurrence
Identifier schemes
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