Development of Assessment Techniques and Analysis Project II (DATAP II)
The Development of Assessment Techniques and Analysis Project (DATAPII) objective is to modernize the application and development of USGS mineral resource and integrated multiresource assessment methodologies and capacity that are applicable at a variety of spatial and temporal scales, and national and international in scope.
Science Issue and Relevance
Mineral resource assessments provide government and industry leaders with information about undiscovered resources in terms of potential occurrence, distribution, type, quality, amount, value, and certainty in assessment results. The USGS needs to expand expertise and build additional capacity and methodology to undertake quantitative and qualitative mineral resource assessments. Since the development and wide-acceptance of the 3-Part form of assessment, geospatial technologies and statistical techniques have become fundamental to resource assessment and exploration targeting. These can better integrate mineralizing system concepts into existing USGS assessment methods, as well as provide a foundation on which to build new assessment approaches, methods, and tools. Sustained research, development, and application are needed to continue and expand USGS approaches to qualitative and quantitative mineral resource and integrated multiresource assessments.
Methodology to Address Issue
This project is an ongoing effort under which project personnel work to maintain and innovate USGS capacity in mineral resource assessment science. Refinements and reprioritizations are driven by both internal (software update needs, new geospatial technologies, additional geostatistical and coding capacity, minerals-system approach application) and external factors (national priorities related to critical and strategic minerals, green technologies and energy, alternative sources for mineral resources).
- Methods / Data / Tools - research and development into refining existing and developing new assessment methodologies and techniques
- Training - instruction and demonstration of resource assessment approaches through short courses
- Assessments - conduct mineral resource assessments
- Big Data - utilize various statistical, geostatistical, quantitative and qualitative methods, including "Big Data" analytics
and Machine Learning techniques
Since the project's launch in 2015, project personnel have:
- developed a new methodology and implemented an operation Monte Carlo simulation tool,
- created various geospatial tools to facilitate resource assessment,
- made advances towards developing economic filters for evaluating quantitative assessment results,
- explored and applied techniques for quantitative assessments of strataiform mineral deposit types,
- conducted, facilitated, and participated in domestic and internal resource assessment efforts,
- developing training materials and provided training in resource assessment for USGS and cooperators,
- developed mineral deposit inventory databases and descriptive and grade-tonnage models,
- collaborative efforts developed and continued both within USGS and with other country geological surveys and research institutes
- published widely on a range of topics, including quantitative mineral resource assessment methods, mineral and multi-resource assessment results, mineral deposit studies and deposit models, critical minerals, remote-sensing applications to mineral resource assessment, and minerals supply.
Data Releases (see the Data and Tools tab for other data releases)
Hammarstrom, J.M., Zientek, M.L. and Parks, H.L., 2018, Global Mineral Resource Assessment: Summary simulation results for estimates of amounts of copper in undiscovered porphyry copper deposits: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F70K26Q4.
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are data releases associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Spatial database for a global assessment of undiscovered copper resources: Chapter Z in Global mineral resource assessment
As part of the first-ever U.S. Geological Survey global assessment of undiscovered copper resources, data common to several regional spatial databases published by the U.S. Geological Survey, including one report from Finland and one from Greenland, were standardized, updated, and compiled into a global copper resource database. This integrated collection of spatial databases provides location, ge
Geology and undiscovered resource assessment of the potash-bearing Central Asia Salt Basin, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan: Chapter AA in Global mineral resource assessment
Mineral resources: Reserves, peak production and the future
Assessment of undiscovered sandstone-hosted uranium resources in the Texas Coastal Plain, 2015
Porphyry copper assessment of the Tethys region of western and southern Asia: Chapter V in Global mineral resource assessment
Phosphate occurrence and potential in the region of Afghanistan, including parts of China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
As part of a larger study, the U.S. Geological Survey undertook a study to identify the potential for phosphate deposits in Afghanistan. As part of this study, a geographic information system was constructed containing a database of phosphate occurrences in Afghanistan and adjacent countries, and a database of potential host lithologies compiled from 1:1,000,000 scale maps. Within Afghanistan, a h
Porphyry copper assessment of northeast Asia: Far East Russia and northeasternmost China: Chapter W in Global mineral resource assessment
Application of U-Th-Pb phosphate geochronology to young orogenic gold deposits: New age constraints on the formation of the Grass Valley gold district, Sierra Foothills province, California
Porphyry copper assessment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and eastern Tethysides: China, Mongolia, Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and India: Chapter X 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
The Development of Assessment Techniques and Analysis Project (DATAPII) objective is to modernize the application and development of USGS mineral resource and integrated multiresource assessment methodologies and capacity that are applicable at a variety of spatial and temporal scales, and national and international in scope.
Science Issue and Relevance
Mineral resource assessments provide government and industry leaders with information about undiscovered resources in terms of potential occurrence, distribution, type, quality, amount, value, and certainty in assessment results. The USGS needs to expand expertise and build additional capacity and methodology to undertake quantitative and qualitative mineral resource assessments. Since the development and wide-acceptance of the 3-Part form of assessment, geospatial technologies and statistical techniques have become fundamental to resource assessment and exploration targeting. These can better integrate mineralizing system concepts into existing USGS assessment methods, as well as provide a foundation on which to build new assessment approaches, methods, and tools. Sustained research, development, and application are needed to continue and expand USGS approaches to qualitative and quantitative mineral resource and integrated multiresource assessments.
Methodology to Address Issue
This project is an ongoing effort under which project personnel work to maintain and innovate USGS capacity in mineral resource assessment science. Refinements and reprioritizations are driven by both internal (software update needs, new geospatial technologies, additional geostatistical and coding capacity, minerals-system approach application) and external factors (national priorities related to critical and strategic minerals, green technologies and energy, alternative sources for mineral resources).
- Methods / Data / Tools - research and development into refining existing and developing new assessment methodologies and techniques
- Training - instruction and demonstration of resource assessment approaches through short courses
- Assessments - conduct mineral resource assessments
- Big Data - utilize various statistical, geostatistical, quantitative and qualitative methods, including "Big Data" analytics
and Machine Learning techniques
Since the project's launch in 2015, project personnel have:
- developed a new methodology and implemented an operation Monte Carlo simulation tool,
- created various geospatial tools to facilitate resource assessment,
- made advances towards developing economic filters for evaluating quantitative assessment results,
- explored and applied techniques for quantitative assessments of strataiform mineral deposit types,
- conducted, facilitated, and participated in domestic and internal resource assessment efforts,
- developing training materials and provided training in resource assessment for USGS and cooperators,
- developed mineral deposit inventory databases and descriptive and grade-tonnage models,
- collaborative efforts developed and continued both within USGS and with other country geological surveys and research institutes
- published widely on a range of topics, including quantitative mineral resource assessment methods, mineral and multi-resource assessment results, mineral deposit studies and deposit models, critical minerals, remote-sensing applications to mineral resource assessment, and minerals supply.
Data Releases (see the Data and Tools tab for other data releases)
Hammarstrom, J.M., Zientek, M.L. and Parks, H.L., 2018, Global Mineral Resource Assessment: Summary simulation results for estimates of amounts of copper in undiscovered porphyry copper deposits: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F70K26Q4.
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are data releases associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Spatial database for a global assessment of undiscovered copper resources: Chapter Z in Global mineral resource assessment
As part of the first-ever U.S. Geological Survey global assessment of undiscovered copper resources, data common to several regional spatial databases published by the U.S. Geological Survey, including one report from Finland and one from Greenland, were standardized, updated, and compiled into a global copper resource database. This integrated collection of spatial databases provides location, ge
Geology and undiscovered resource assessment of the potash-bearing Central Asia Salt Basin, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan: Chapter AA in Global mineral resource assessment
Mineral resources: Reserves, peak production and the future
Assessment of undiscovered sandstone-hosted uranium resources in the Texas Coastal Plain, 2015
Porphyry copper assessment of the Tethys region of western and southern Asia: Chapter V in Global mineral resource assessment
Phosphate occurrence and potential in the region of Afghanistan, including parts of China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
As part of a larger study, the U.S. Geological Survey undertook a study to identify the potential for phosphate deposits in Afghanistan. As part of this study, a geographic information system was constructed containing a database of phosphate occurrences in Afghanistan and adjacent countries, and a database of potential host lithologies compiled from 1:1,000,000 scale maps. Within Afghanistan, a h