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USGS Geospatial Data for the Mineral Industries (Africa, China, Indo-Pacific, SW Asia)

USGS

~7,800 mineral facilities across 4 NMIC regional GIS compilations - Africa (OFR 2024-1041), China (OFR 2026-1018, 1,479 processing plants), Indo-Pacific (2024; Indonesia/Philippines Ni, SE-Asia Sn) and Southwest Asia (2022); operator, equity owners (+ stake %), commodity, annual capacity, status, geolocation.

Source

How it's published

Feed (what to expect)

Static NMIC File-GDB compilations (free); vendored, re-pull on new regions.

Cadence: static (NMIC regional GIS compilations, 2022-2026)
Access: free File Geodatabase from ScienceBase; facilities attribute table extracted to vendored CSV
Format: Esri File Geodatabase → vendored CSV
Licence: public_domain
Vintage: 2026
Upstream: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center

Quirks

config-driven multi-region fetcher with a PER-REGION column map (DsgAttr meanings differ: Africa commodity=DsgAttr02, China=DsgAttr01); add Indo-Pacific/SW-Asia by extracting their table + appending a FacilitiesDataset
GDB attribute table extracted ONCE via pyogrio/GDAL (no runtime geo dep); only the <region>_Mineral_Facilities layer is vendored
emitted as SupplyRecord(measure=capacity); equity owners (+ stake %) preserved in notes for foreign-control analysis; mixed units shown verbatim

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

SupplyRecord

Identifier schemes

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