Industrial minerals resources map of Britain
The map show the broad distribution of the industrial, including construction, mineral resources of Britain and the main sites where these are worked. Over extensive areas bedrock is covered by superficial deposits, including economically important sand and gravel resources. These superficial deposits are not shown on the map. Resources have been defined by dominant lithology (rock type). The map is a synthesis of the mineral resources and mineral working data held by the BGS in 1996. The published (paper) map has not been superseded however the digital mineral resources and mineral workings data has since been superseded. The map is logically consistent throughout.
dataset
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/mines/industrial.html
name: Industrial minerals map
description: Further information about the 'Industrial minerals resources map of Britain' and how to purchase the item can be viewed on the page this URL links to.
function: information
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13453046
eng
Cannot be provided to third parties without appropriate license in place. All existing data are available to user. However, digital data has not been formaly QA'd. Dependent on the underlying geology.
geoscientificInformation
publication
2008-06-01
Construction materials
Mineral resources
Industrial minerals
revision
2011
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1.7800
60.8600
49.7700
revision
2009
GBN
creation
1979
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1994
creation
1994
notPlanned
The mineral resources are based on the BGS 1:625 000 Geological Map of the United Kingdom (North and South sheets), the BGS 1:250 000 Solid Geology map series, other BGS maps, publications and databases (specifically its BritPits database). Data was digitised using Microstation and later converted into ESRI attributed shapefile format.
publication
2011
false
See the referenced specification
publication
2010-12-08
false
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Paper Map
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Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
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United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
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