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Mineral resources

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Scale:
1:50 000
Coverage:
England, Wales, central belt of Scotland
Availability:
Licensed
Format:
GIS polygon data. (ESRI, MapInfo, others available by request)
Price:

£0.13 per km2. Subject to number of users, licence fee and data preparation fee.
Uses:
Local-level to Region-level use

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Our free data is available under the Open Government Licence. Please acknowledge reproduced BGS materials.

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This dataset contains the geological distribution of all onshore mineral resources.

Minerals are essential for the development of a modern economy, but their extraction is subject to environmental and other constraints. Bringing together minerals, environmental and other land-use information in an integrated system allows more effective and sustainable management strategies to be developed.

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Mineral resources sample data. BGS © UKRI – Contains OS data © Crown copyright 2020.

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Mineral resources coverage. BGS © UKRI – Contains OS data © Crown copyright 2020.

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