usgs_mine_wastecommodityOfficial surveyAuthoritative

USGS National Mine Waste Inventory (NMWI)

USGS

764 above-ground mine-waste features (tailings/dumps/leach piles) across 11 US states; commodity, feature type, volume + a reported grade & contained-commodity for a subset; 2,167 secondary DepositResource (feature x commodity)

Source

How it's published

Feed (what to expect)

Static v1 File-GDB (free ScienceBase); vendored, re-pull as states expand.

Cadence: static (v1, 2026; expanding by state)
Access: free File Geodatabase from ScienceBase; features extracted to vendored CSV
Format: Esri File Geodatabase -> vendored CSV
Licence: public_domain
Vintage: 2026
Upstream: https://doi.org/10.5066/P148EEUA

Quirks

first national catalogue of mine waste as a SECONDARY supply source; emitted as DepositResource resource_class=Mine waste (distinct from primary deposits)
GDB Waste_Points + Waste_Resources + Waste_Geology joined on Ftr_ID, extracted once via pyogrio (no runtime geo dep)
US-only (AZ/CO/KY/MI/MT/NC/NM/NV/OK/UT/VA); most features carry volume only, ~226 a waste-material tonnage, 5 a contained-metal grade

The circular-economy / mine-waste secondary-supply signal the primary deposit sources lack; flows into the deposit atlas labelled Mine waste.

Reconciliation

Role in the canonical graph

Authority tier: Official survey
Provenance: Authoritative
Canonicality: tier 1
Primary for: —
Contributes IDs: —
Name-block matching: trusted
Reconcile profile: default (tier 1)

Schema

What it feeds & emits

Feeds (axes)

Supply

Record kinds

DepositResource

Identifier schemes

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