Metadata for U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Location Database
Identification Information:
- Citation:
- Originator: Montana State Library
- Publication date: 10/06/1992
- Title: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Location Database
- Publication place: Helena, Montana
- Publisher: Montana State Library
- Online linkage:
http://nris.mt.gov/nsdi/nris/e00/ms4.zip
- Online linkage:
http://nris.mt.gov/nsdi/nris/shape/ms4.zip
- Abstract:
- Mine locations from the U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral
Information Location System (MILS) database. Provided to
NRIS by Frances Baker of the Spokane office (509-353-2738 or
509-353-2712). This data was provided to BOM from many State
and Federal agencies, and the coordinates come from sources
of varying accuracy. The attributes included here are a
subset of those available from USBOM. Data from BOM's
"one-liner" report on 9/1/1992.
- Purpose: Mine information database.
- Time period of content:
- Calendar date: 09/01/1992
- Currentness reference: Publication Date
- Status:
- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown
- Access constraints: None
- Use constraints: None
- Point of contact:
- Gerry Daumiller
- Senior GIS Programmer
- Montana State Library
- 1515 East 6th Avenue
- Helena,
Montana 59620-1800
- Telephone: (406) 444-5358
- Fax: (406) 444-0581
- E-Mail: gdaumiller@mt.gov
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Data Quality Information:
- Attribute accuracy report: Unknown
- Logical consistency report: None
- Completeness report: Unknown
- Horizontal Posistional Accuracy Report: Unknown
- Lineage:
- Source information:
- Originator:
- U.S. Bureau of Mines
Branch of Engineering and Economic Analysis
- Publication date: 09/01/1992
- Title: Mineral Information System
- Publication place: Spokane, WA
- Publisher: U.S. Bureau of Mines
- Other citation details:
- East 360 3rd Avenue
509-353-2735
- Source scale denominator: 0
- Type of source media: Electronic file
- Source contribution: The data set is a copy of this source.
- Calendar date: 09/01/1992
- Process step: Project the Bureau of Mines data to Albers.
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- Process date: 10/06/1992
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Spatial Data Organization Information:
- Point and vector object information:
- SDTS object type: Point
- SDTS object count: 7481
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Spatial Reference Information:
- Horizontal coordinate system definition:
- Grid coordinate system name: State Plane Coordinate System 1983
- SPCS zone identifier: 2500
- Lambert conformal conic:
- Standard parallel: 45
- Standard parallel: 49
- Longitude of central meridian: -109.5
- Latitude of projection origin: 44.25
- False easting: 600000.00000
- False northing: 0.00000
- Planar distance units: meters
- Geodetic model:
- Horizontal datum name: North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid name: Geodetic Reference System 80
- Semi-major axis: 6378137
- Denominator of flattening ratio: 298.257
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Entity and Attribute Information:
- Entity type label: MINE92.PAT
- Entity type definition: Point Attribute Table
- Attribute label: SEQ
- Attribute definition:
- U.S. BOM sequence number
1st two digits are the State code, next three are the
County code.
- Attribute label: NAME
- Attribute definition: Name of mine or prospect
- Attribute label: OPTYPE
- Attribute definition: Type of Mining Operation
Attribute
Value |
Definition of
Attribute Value |
| UNDERGROUND |
Underground Mine |
| SURFACE |
Surface Mine |
| PROSPECT |
Mineral Prospect |
| SURF-UNDERG |
Surface & Underground Mine |
| HOT SPRING |
Hot Spring |
| MINERAL LOC |
Located Minerals |
| PLACER |
Placer Mine |
| UNKNOWN |
Unknown |
| PROC PLANT |
Processing Plant |
| WELL |
Well |
| UNDERWATER |
Under Water |
|
- Attribute label: STATUS
- Attribute definition: Operations status
Attribute
Value |
Definition of
Attribute Value |
| PAST PRODUCER |
Formerly a producing mine |
| RAW PROSPECT |
Raw Prospect |
| PRODUCER |
Currently a producing mine |
| EXP PROSPECT |
Exploration prospect??? |
| DEVEL DEPOSIT |
Developed deposit??? |
| UNKNOWN |
Unknown |
| TEMP SHUTDOWN |
Temporarily shut down |
| OTHER |
Other |
|
- Attribute label: DLAT
- Attribute definition: Degrees of Latitude
- Range domain minimum: 44
- Range domain maximum: 48
- Attribute measurement resolution: 1
- Attribute label: MLAT
- Attribute definition: Minutes of Latitude
- Range domain minimum: 0
- Range domain maximum: 59
- Attribute measurement resolution: 1
- Attribute label: SLAT
- Attribute definition: Seconds of Latitude
- Range domain minimum: 0
- Range domain maximum: 59
- Attribute label: DLONG
- Attribute definition: Degrees of Longitude
- Range domain minimum: 104
- Range domain maximum: 117
- Attribute measurement resolution: 1
- Attribute label: MLONG
- Attribute definition: Minutes of Longitude
- Range domain minimum: 0
- Range domain maximum: 59
- Attribute label: SLONG
- Attribute definition: Seconds of Longitude
- Range domain minimum: 0
- Range domain maximum: 59
- Attribute label: UTMZ
- Attribute definition: UTM coordinate zone
- Range domain minimum: 11
- Range domain maximum: 13
- Attribute label: UTMN
- Attribute definition: UTM northing
- Range domain minimum: 4920699
- Range domain maximum: 5428180
- Attribute label: UTME
- Attribute definition: UTM easting
- Range domain minimum: 267358
- Range domain maximum: 732812
- Attribute measurement resolution: 1
- Attribute label: PREC
- Attribute definition: Precision of coordinates
Attribute
Value |
Definition of
Attribute Value |
| 100M |
100 meters |
| 10M |
10 meters |
| 500M |
500 meters |
| UNK |
Unknown |
| 1KM |
1000 meters |
| 1000 |
1000 meters? |
| 10 |
10 meters? |
| 5KM |
5000 meters |
| 500 |
500 meters? |
| 250 |
250 meters? |
| 100 |
100 meters? |
| 5000 |
5000 meters? |
| 10KM |
10000 meters |
| >10KM |
More than 10000 meters |
| 10000 |
10000 meters? |
|
- Attribute label: TWN
- Attribute definition: Public Land Survey Township Number
- Attribute label: NS
- Attribute definition: Township North/South Designation
Attribute
Value |
Definition of
Attribute Value |
| S |
Township South of Base Line |
| N |
Township North of Base Line |
|
- Attribute label: RNG
- Attribute definition: Public Land Survey Range Number
- Attribute label: EW
- Attribute definition: Range East/West Designation
Attribute
Value |
Definition of
Attribute Value |
| W |
Range West of Principal Meridian |
| E |
Range East of Principal Meridian |
|
- Attribute label: SECT
- Attribute definition: Public Land Survey Section Number
- Attribute label: SUB-SECT
- Attribute definition: Sub-section designation
- Attribute label: QUAD
- Attribute definition: USGS quadrangle name
- Attribute label: QUAD-SIZE
- Attribute definition: USGS map series
Attribute
Value |
Definition of
Attribute Value |
| 7.5 MIN |
1:24,000 scale 7.5-minute quadrangle |
| 15 MIN |
1:62,500 scale 15-minute quadrangle |
| 1:250K |
1:250,000 scale 1x2 degeree quadrangle |
| 30 MIN |
30-minute quadrangle |
|
- Attribute label: EVAL-TYPE
- Attribute definition: Type of evaluation
Attribute
Value |
Definition of
Attribute Value |
| R |
Resource data is available |
| C |
Complete data is available |
| M |
Not confirmed |
| L |
Location is confirmed |
|
- Attribute label: YR-CHKD
- Attribute definition: Year checked
- Range domain minimum: 0
- Range domain maximum: 1992
- Attribute label: EVALUATOR
- Attribute definition: Checked by
- Attribute label: PROP-FILE
- Attribute definition: US BOM backup file number
- Range domain minimum: 0
- Range domain maximum: 100
- Attribute label: LAST-MOD
- Attribute definition: Date last modified
- Attribute label: COM
- Attribute definition:
- List of up to 5 commodities mined
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Distribution Information:
- Distributor:
- Gerry Daumiller
- Senior GIS Programmer
- Montana State Library
- 1515 East 6th Avenue
- Helena,
Montana 59620-1800
- Telephone: (406) 444-5358
- Fax: (406) 444-0581
- E-Mail: gdaumiller@mt.gov
- Distribution liability:
- Users must assume responsibility to determine the
usability of this data for their purposes.
- Standard order process:
- Non-digital form:
- Contact the State Library to see if the data is
available as hardcopy maps.
- Fees:
- For-profit organizations must pay our costs to reproduce the
data. Fees can be waived if doing Government work.
- Standard order process:
- Digital form:
- Format name: Arc/Info Export
- Online option:
http://nris.mt.gov/nsdi/nris/e00/ms4.zip- Offline option:
- Offline media: CD-ROM
- Recording format: ISO 9660
- Digital form:
- Format name: ESRI Shapefile
- Online option:
http://nris.mt.gov/nsdi/nris/shape/ms4.zip- Offline option:
- Offline media: CD-ROM
- Recording format: ISO 9660
- Fees:
- For-profit organizations must pay our costs to reproduce the
data. Fees can be waived if doing Government work.
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Metadata Reference Information:
- Metadata date: 07/02/1993
- Metadata review date: 10/05/1996
- Metadata contact:
- Gerry Daumiller
- Montana State Library
- 1515 East 6th Avenue
- Helena,
Montana 59620-1800
- Telephone: (406) 444-5358
- Fax: (406) 444-0581
- E-Mail: gdaumiller@mt.gov
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