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BGS World Mineral Statistics service (OGC WFS)

This service provides access to the World Mineral Statistics database data.

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Identification info

Date (Revision)
2021-01-11
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607732
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

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • Minerals

  • Statistics

dataCentre
  • data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
  • Scottish SDI
  • MET4TECH

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata, Part D 4, Classification of Spatial Data Services

  • 200-Geographic model/information management service
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
BGS Mineral Statistics terms and conditions (IPR) The copyright of all materials derived from the BGS's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and/or the authority that commissioned the work. You may adapt and use these tables for non-commercial academic and research purposes, however should you wish to use them for any commercial purpose or provide them to a third party, you need to satisfy yourself that you have permission from the original copyright owner (where NERC is providing tables with permission and is not the copyright holder) or seek NERC's permission where the copyright is held by NERC. Please contact the BGS Intellectual Property Rights section, British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, or email ipr@bgs.ac.uk Your use of any materials supplied by the British Geological Survey (BGS) is at your own risk. Neither the BGS nor the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives any warranty, condition or representation as to the quality, accuracy or completeness of the information or its suitability for any use or purpose or that the use of any of the statistics will not infringe any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights of any third party. All implied conditions relating to the quality or suitability of the information, and all liabilities arising from the supply of the information (including any liability arising in negligence) are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. The tables are provided "as-is" on the understanding that they have been derived from data created using data capture standards and methodologies considered appropriate at the time of its creation. The data may not have been subjected to current BGS standards of scrutiny and approval. Neither the NERC nor its employees accept any liability in respect of loss, damage, injury or any other occurrence arising from the provision of, or derived from, the data. Data may be compiled from the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including material donated to BGS by third parties, and may not originally have been subject to any verification or other quality control process. By use of the following acknowledgement it must be made clear to anyone viewing the tables that material has been contributed by BGS: "World Mineral Statistics contributed by permission of the British Geological Survey".
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

Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. 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 use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

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.

Service Type
download
Geographic identifier
WORLD [id=100000]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

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Begin date
1970-01-01
Coupling Type
Tight

Contains Operations

No information provided.
Operates On
  • World Mineral Statistics Dataset
  • electronic European Minerals Yearbook (e-MYB) / Mintell4EU (centroids)
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
Distribution format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1994

GML

3.2

GML

3.1.1

GML

2.1.2

GML

3.2.1

Comma-separated values (CSV)

MapInfo (MIF)

OGC GeoPackage (GPKG)

GeoJSON

Version 1.0 (2008)

GeoJSON

RFC 7946

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://ogc2.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/UKWM/ows?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&

BGS World Mineral Statistics service

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WFS-2.0.0-http-get-capabilities

https://ogc2.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mintell/ows?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&

BGS World Mineral Statistics service

Hierarchy level
Service
Other

service

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

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

Conformance result

Title

Technical Guidance for the implementation of INSPIRE View Services Version 3.0

Date (Publication)
2011-03-21
Explanation

See the referenced specification at http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/TechnicalGuidance_ViewServices_v3.0.pdf

Pass
No
Statement

not entered

Metadata

File identifier
c002e083-d1dd-36d2-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Service
Hierarchy level name

service

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/13607732

 
 

Overviews

overview

Keywords

MET4TECH Scottish SDI data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)


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