Date (Creation)

1994

Citation identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608639

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

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Digital data

• Minerals

• Economic geology

dataCentre

• data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

license

Other constraints

Either : (i) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under license; and / or (ii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted before the dataset can be provided to, or accessed by, BGS staff or external clients. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant access restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (IPR@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

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

The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section ( iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.

Spatial representation type

Vector

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

GBN

ISO 3166_2 2009 revision

Geographic identifier

GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date

1994

End date

2010

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

Name	Version
ESRI Shapefile (.shp)

Distributor contact

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://www.bgs.ac.uk/datasets/bgs-mineral-resources/	BGS Datasets – Mineral resources

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

This UK dataset is derived from the integration of mineral resource datasets originally produced for England, Scotland and Wales. For the Scottish and Welsh components, BGS DiGMapGB-50 version 5 geology polygons were clipped to administrative areas and geological lithologies were supplied to Economic Geologists for interpretation of bedrock and superficial formations that might be of current or future economic value. These interpretations were extracted from DiGMapGB-50 and attributed as mineral resources. Draft maps were reviewed internally and with stakeholders, revised where areas were considered uneconomic or unworkable, and then prepared as cleaned GIS datasets. Polygons were dissolved by mineral resource name, sliver polygons removed where possible, multipart features converted to singlepart, redundant attributes removed, and geometry repaired. Final datasets were approved by an Economic Geologist. For England, the dataset is derived from a series of county-based mineral resource mapping projects commissioned between 1994 and 2006 by the Department of the Environment (DoE), Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR), Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). Early datasets were digitised in MicroStation and later converted to ArcView format; more recent datasets were derived directly from BGS DiGMapGB data and edited in ArcView/ArcGIS. Revisions were undertaken in 2011–2012 following new research and the release of DiGMapGB-50 version 5. In 2020, minor revisions to geometry and attributes were applied across the national datasets in response to minor corrections. Paper map products were not re-released following these updates. The national datasets were subsequently harmonised and merged by BGS to produce a single, onshore, UK-wide mineral resources dataset for online spatial delivery.

Metadata

File identifier

4b1d6a09-2685-32e2-e063-3050940a53b5 XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-02-24

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

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

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608639