4af3bb6d-9431-eadf-e063-3050940ae7d6 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-14 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608635 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700) TM65 / Irish Grid (EPSG::29902) Minerals4EU ~ UK mineral resources M4EU 2015-06 publication http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608635 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. Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact notPlanned https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/4af3bb6d-9431-eadf-e063-3050940ae7d6.png Mineral Resources GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Mineral resources Minerals BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision EGDI data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE) dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions licenceOGL Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" otherRestrictions The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. 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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. vector 625 English geoscientificInformation ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision GB British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation UK [id=139300] ISO 3166_2 2009 revision UKM -11.8100 4.7000 48.2100 61.0200 2015-03 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. GML application/gml+xml; version=3.2 GML text/xml; subtype=gml/3.2.1 Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor https://ogcdev.bgs.ac.uk/m4eu-v2025/services?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities& OGC:WFS-2.0.0-http-get-capabilities BGS EN MINERALS Complex Feature OGC WFS for feature types relating to Mineral Occurrences in Europe; data comes from multiple sources (including Minerals4EU) download https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/608921 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Minerals Intelligence Network for Europe Details of the Minerals4EU project information https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/download/exploration-for-metalliferous-and-related-minerals-in-britain-a-guide/ WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Exploration for Metalliferous and Related Minerals in Britain: A Guide 2nd Edition, Colman TC, Cooper P (2000) Second edtion of report used as a source for some of the presented data download dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Mineral Resources 2011 publication See the referenced specification false 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 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false 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.