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Minerals4EU ~ UK mineral resources

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
13 August 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
Not set

Summary

A collection of industrial and construction minerals and metallic deposits, onshore and offshore, resources data for the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, including bedrock sand and gravel aggregates, igneous and metamorphic aggregates, limestone aggregates, offshore sand and gravel aggregate, sandstone aggregate, superficial sand and gravel aggregates, ball clay, barytes, bauxite, brick clay, calcite, cement, fireclay, fluorspar, fullers earth, gypsum anhydrite, industrial limestones and dolomites, kaolin, perlite, potash, salt, silica, talc and serpentine, metallic mineral resources and prospects, igneous and metamorphic building stone, limesone building stone, sandtone building stone. Data is mostly polygon data with the exception of the metallic mineral resource prospects, which are presented as points.

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
13 August 2026
Harvest GUID
4af3bb6d-9431-eadf-e063-3050940ae7d6
Extent (Latitude)
61.0200° to 48.2100°
Extent (Longitude)
-11.8100° to 4.7000°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2015-06
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Responsible party
British Geological Survey (distributor, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng