Global Assessment Applications
This project used the results of the USGS Global Mineral Resource Assessment project to illustrate how USGS provides science in support of policy and decision-making, and also maintained the project's data library.
Objectives
Project objectives were to
- Use the results of the USGS Global Mineral Resource Assessment project to illustrate how USGS provides science in support of policy and decision-making.
- Maintain the data library of the Global Mineral Resource Assessment project and develop customized products. The data library can be expanded as needed, and data can readily be processed to provide some level of geology-based assessment for many other types of mineral deposits worldwide.
Project Activities
Global Assessment Results
We plan to publish a digital atlas highlighting individual mineral resource assessment tracts (225 plates in total) around the world for copper in porphyry and sediment-hosted deposits. The atlas will provide a summary of mineral resource estimates of potential mineral endowment for each tract, and can be used as an example of products that could be developed for other deposit types.
Global GIS and Data Library
We will evaluate other types of data that can be combined with the global mineral resource-related data using GIS to develop products that could be used to evaluate political, socio-economic, and environmental impacts of land-use decisions associated with mineral development (for example, areas of political conflict, protected areas, poverty indices, hazards, fragile ecosystems, habitats, infrastructure, fisheries, watershed issues, etc.). The GIS file for each report is published with the report.
Science for Policy and Decision-Making
We will use the results of the global assessment (fact sheets, the non-technical atlas in progress) to help the World Bank, United States Agency for International Development, State Department, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, to provide science in support of policy and decision-making.
Return to Mineral Resources Program
Below are publications associated with this project.
Qualitative assessment of selected areas of the world for undiscovered sediment-hosted stratabound copper deposits: Chapter Y in Global mineral resource assessment
Porphyry copper assessment of the Tethys region of western and southern Asia: Chapter V in Global mineral resource assessment
Assessment of undiscovered copper resources associated with the Permian Kupferschiefer, Southern Permian Basin, Europe
Potash: a global overview of evaporate-related potash resources, including spatial databases of deposits, occurrences, and permissive tracts
Porphyry copper assessment of East and Southeast Asia: Philippines, Taiwan (Republic of China), Republic of Korea (South Korea), and Japan
Sediment-hosted stratabound copper assessment of the Neoproterozoic Roan Group, central African copperbelt, Katanga Basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia
Sandstone copper assessment of the Teniz Basin, Kazakhstan
Porphyry copper assessment of western Central Asia
Regional mapping of hydrothermally altered igneous rocks along the Urumieh-Dokhtar, Chagai, and Alborz Belts of western Asia using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data and Interactive Data Language (IDL) logical oper
Porphyry copper assessment of eastern Australia
Platinum-group elements in southern Africa: mineral inventory and an assessment of undiscovered mineral resources
Porphyry copper assessment of Central America and the Caribbean Basin
Below are news stories associated with this project.
This project used the results of the USGS Global Mineral Resource Assessment project to illustrate how USGS provides science in support of policy and decision-making, and also maintained the project's data library.
Objectives
Project objectives were to
- Use the results of the USGS Global Mineral Resource Assessment project to illustrate how USGS provides science in support of policy and decision-making.
- Maintain the data library of the Global Mineral Resource Assessment project and develop customized products. The data library can be expanded as needed, and data can readily be processed to provide some level of geology-based assessment for many other types of mineral deposits worldwide.
Project Activities
Global Assessment Results
We plan to publish a digital atlas highlighting individual mineral resource assessment tracts (225 plates in total) around the world for copper in porphyry and sediment-hosted deposits. The atlas will provide a summary of mineral resource estimates of potential mineral endowment for each tract, and can be used as an example of products that could be developed for other deposit types.
Global GIS and Data Library
We will evaluate other types of data that can be combined with the global mineral resource-related data using GIS to develop products that could be used to evaluate political, socio-economic, and environmental impacts of land-use decisions associated with mineral development (for example, areas of political conflict, protected areas, poverty indices, hazards, fragile ecosystems, habitats, infrastructure, fisheries, watershed issues, etc.). The GIS file for each report is published with the report.
Science for Policy and Decision-Making
We will use the results of the global assessment (fact sheets, the non-technical atlas in progress) to help the World Bank, United States Agency for International Development, State Department, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, to provide science in support of policy and decision-making.
Return to Mineral Resources Program
Below are publications associated with this project.
Qualitative assessment of selected areas of the world for undiscovered sediment-hosted stratabound copper deposits: Chapter Y in Global mineral resource assessment
Porphyry copper assessment of the Tethys region of western and southern Asia: Chapter V in Global mineral resource assessment
Assessment of undiscovered copper resources associated with the Permian Kupferschiefer, Southern Permian Basin, Europe
Potash: a global overview of evaporate-related potash resources, including spatial databases of deposits, occurrences, and permissive tracts
Porphyry copper assessment of East and Southeast Asia: Philippines, Taiwan (Republic of China), Republic of Korea (South Korea), and Japan
Sediment-hosted stratabound copper assessment of the Neoproterozoic Roan Group, central African copperbelt, Katanga Basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia
Sandstone copper assessment of the Teniz Basin, Kazakhstan
Porphyry copper assessment of western Central Asia
Regional mapping of hydrothermally altered igneous rocks along the Urumieh-Dokhtar, Chagai, and Alborz Belts of western Asia using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data and Interactive Data Language (IDL) logical oper
Porphyry copper assessment of eastern Australia
Platinum-group elements in southern Africa: mineral inventory and an assessment of undiscovered mineral resources
Porphyry copper assessment of Central America and the Caribbean Basin
Below are news stories associated with this project.