Minerals4EU ~ UK mineral resources

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.

Alternate title: M4EU

Date (Publication): 2015-06

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608635

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Mineral Resources

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Mineral resources
Minerals

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: licenceOGL

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other 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.

Other constraints: There are no restrictions on the use that may be made of the dataset, although an appropriate copyright acknowledgement must be made when any part of the dataset is reproduced. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 625

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: GB
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier: UK [id=139300]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier: UKM
ISO 3166_2 2009 revision

End date: 2015-03

Supplemental Information: Data was compiled as contribution to a project funded by European Commission, under the 7th Framework Program (Grant agreement ID: 608921). Data originally compiled as ESRI Shapefiles, then ingested into PostgreSQL database which is backend of the BGS EN MINERALS service.

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Unique resource identifier: TM65 / Irish Grid (EPSG::29902)

Distribution format

Name	Version
GML	application/gml+xml; version=3.2
GML	text/xml; subtype=gml/3.2.1

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WFS-2.0.0-http-get-capabilities	https://ogcdev.bgs.ac.uk/m4eu-v2025/services?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&	BGS EN MINERALS

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/608921	Minerals Intelligence Network for Europe

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/download/exploration-for-metalliferous-and-related-minerals-in-britain-a-guide/	Exploration for Metalliferous and Related Minerals in Britain: A Guide 2nd Edition, Colman TC, Cooper P (2000)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Mineral Resources

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: Data collated as part of the Minerals4U project ~ primarily utilising the 1:625K geology data. For metallic deposits an alternative approach was utilised i.e using as a starting point Figure 21 from Exploration for Metalliferous and Related Minerals in Britain: A Guide Colman, T.B (1990) which depicts metalliferous ore fields; data was supplemented by point data extracted from the BGS Mineral occurrences database.