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USGS Mineral Resources

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USGS Mineral Resources Data System: ~304K worldwide mineral deposits across 200+ countries with commodities, development status, and detailed per-record geology, plus US conterminous mine-feature points.

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What you can ask

  • “What does USGS Mineral Resources have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
  • “Pull the most recent USGS Mineral Resources records and put them in a table.”
  • “What does USGS Mineral Resources cover, and how fresh is the data?”

About this source

USGS MRDS + USMIN — global mineral deposits + US mine-feature points (no auth). Upstream (MapServer WFS 2.0.0): - /services/wfs/mrds — ms:mrds (~304K worldwide deposits) - /services/wfs/usmin — ms:points + ms:polygons (US only) Rich per-record JSON: /mrds/json/{dep_id} returns 26+ subtables (commodities, materials, ages, ore body, production, references, rocks). Filters: commodity (CU/AU/AG/FE/LI/U/REE/PGE…), country (FIPS), US state, dev_stat (Past Producer/Producer/Occurrence/Prospect/Plant/Raw Prospect), bbox. §0 quirks: CQL_FILTER silently ignored by MapServer — handler emits OGC FILTER= XML (fes:Filter). fips_code stored with literal "f" prefix (fCI / f06065). code_list space-separated with leading space.

Connector ID usgs-mrds

Provenance

PublisherUSGS Mineral Resources
API basehttps://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/wfs/mrds

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared
GeographicNot declared
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required

› Methods (6)

Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.

  • searchDeposits

    read

    MRDS deposits worldwide. Filter commodity (2-letter code), country (FIPS), US state, dev_stat, bbox.

    commodity is matched against code_list with PropertyIsLike "%CODE%".

  • getDepositById

    read

    Full deposit record — 26+ subtables (commodities, materials, ages, ore body, references).

    Source: mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/json/{dep_id}. GeoJSON Feature.

  • searchByBbox

    read

    Spatial-only deposit search. bbox is [minX, minY, maxX, maxY] in WGS84.

    Skips XML filter; uses WFS BBOX URL shortcut for speed.

  • searchUsminFeatures

    read

    US conterminous mine features (Mine Shaft / Adit / Prospect / Tailings). Requires state.

    USMIN does not cover Alaska, Hawaii, PR, or international.

  • countDeposits

    read

    Count deposits via WFS resultType=hits. Slice by commodity / country / state.

    Defaults to lithium in Nevada (disclosed). State: US postal code/two-digit FIPS.

  • getServiceInfo

    read

    Endpoints, layer fields, pagination conventions, distinct enum values, upstream quirks.