Industrial Mineral Assessment Unit (IMAU) reports and maps - MineralsUK

The entire series of the Industrial Minerals Assessment Unit (IMAU) reports and maps are free to download. There are 158 reports and maps available.

You can also access the IMAU data on the BGS Onshore GeoIndex map viewer. Please note: you will need to zoom in as the data is only visible at scales between 1:40 000 and 1:600 000.

Summary

Assessment of British sand and gravel resources

The sand and gravel resources of the UK were surveyed by the IMAU on a regional scale from 1968 to 1990. A report was issued for each area surveyed, describing and quantifying the resources of sand and gravel, with an accompanying 1:25 000 map. The survey included:

drilling and sampling of the sand and gravel resources
logging of the borehole material
particle-size analysis to determine the proportion of gravel, sand and fines present

The maps categorise the sand and gravel resources as exposed, present beneath overburden or potentially not workable.

Assessment of other industrial mineral resources

In addition to the sand and gravel resources, other industrial mineral resources were surveyed during the same period including:

celestite
limestone and dolomite
conglomerate
hard rock resources

1 Sand and gravel | South-east of Norwich, Norfolk

2 Sand and gravel | Witham, Essex

3 Sand and gravel | South and west of Woodbridge, Suffolk

4 Sand and gravel | Maldon, Essex

5 Sand and gravel | Hethersett, Norfolk

6 Sand and gravel | Terling, Essex

7 Sand and gravel | Layer Breton and Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex

8 Sand and gravel | Shotley and Felixstowe, Suffolk

9 Sand and gravel | Attlebridge, Norfolk

10 Sand and gravel | West of Colchester, Essex

11 Sand and gravel | Tattingstone, Suffolk

12 Sand and gravel | Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire

13 Sand and gravel | Chelmsford, Essex

14 Sand and gravel | Colchester, Essex

15 Sand and gravel | Newton on Trent, Lincolnshire

16 Sand and gravel | Braintree, Essex

17 Sand and gravel | Besthorpe, Nottinghamshire

18 Sand and gravel | Thames Valley, the country around Cricklade, Wiltshire

19 Sand and gravel | South of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

20 Sand and gravel | East of Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire

21 Sand and gravel | Thames and Kennet Valleys, the country around Pangbourne, Berkshire

22 Sand and gravel | North-west of Scunthorpe, Humberside

23 Sand and gravel | Thames Valley, the country between Lechlade and Standlake

24 Sand and gravel | Aldermaston, Berkshire

25 Celestite | North-east of Bristol
With notes on occurrences north and south of the Mendip Hills and in the Vale of Glamorgan

26 Limestone and dolomite | Monyash, Derbyshire

27 Sand and gravel | Lincoln, Lincolnshire

28 Sand and gravel | Eynsham, Oxfordshire

29 Sand and gravel | South-west of Scunthorpe, Humberside

30 Procedure for the assessment of limestone resources

31 Sand and gravel | West of Newark Upon Trent, Nottinghamshire

32 Sonning and Henley, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire

33 Sand and gravel | North of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

34 Sand and gravel | Dengie Peninsula, Essex

35 Sand and gravel | Darvel, Strathclyde

36 Sand and gravel | Southend-on-Sea, Essex

37 Sand and gravel | Bawtry, South Yorkshire

38 Sand and gravel | Abingdon, Oxfordshire

39 Sand and gravel | Blackwater Valley (Aldershot) area

40 Sand and gravel | West of Darlington, County Durham

41 Sand and gravel | Garmouth, Grampian Region

42 Sand and gravel | Maidenhead and Marlow

43 Sand and gravel | Misterton, Nottinghamshire

44 Sand and gravel | Sedgefield, Durham

45 Sand and gravel | Brampton, Cumbria

46 Sand and gravel | North of Harlow, Essex

47 Limestone and dolomite | Wirksworth, Derbyshire

48 Sand and gravel | Loddon Valley area

49 Sand and gravel | Lanark, Strathclyde Region

50 Sand and gravel | Fordingbridge, Hampshire

51 Sand and gravel | North of Bournemouth, Dorset

52 Sand and gravel | Country between Hatfield Heath and Great Waltham, Essex

53 Sand and gravel | Cottenham, Cambridgeshire

54 Sand and gravel | Huntingdon and St Ives, Cambridgeshire

55 Sand and gravel | Ipswich, Suffolk

56 Procedure for the assessment of the conglomerate resources of the Sherwood Sandstone Group

57 The conglomerate resources of the Sherwood Sandstone Group | Cheadle, Staffordshire

58 Sand and gravel | West of Peterhead, Grampian Region

59 Sand and gravel | Newbury, Berkshire

60 Sand and gravel | South-west of Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire and east Northamptonshire

61 Sand and gravel | North of Wrexham, Clwyd

62 Sand and gravel | Dolphinton, Strathclyde Region, and West Linton, Borders Region

63 Sand and gravel | The valley of the Douglas Water, Strathclyde

64 Sand and gravel | Wallingford and Goring, Oxfordshire

65 Sand and gravel | Hexham, Northumberland

66 Sand and gravel | Country West of Chelmsford, Essex

67 Sand and gravel | Hatfield and Cheshunt, Hertfordshire

68 Sand and gravel | North-east of Halstead, Essex

69 Sand and gravel | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire

70 Sand and gravel | East of Harrogate, North Yorkshire

71 Sand and gravel | Hemel Hempstead, St Albans and Watford, Hertfordshire

72 Sand and gravel | Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

73 Sand and gravel | Ely and Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

74 Sand and gravel | Blaydon, Tyne and Wear

75 Sand and gravel | Stokesley, North Yorkshire

76 Sand and gravel | Ellon, Grampian Region

77 Limestone and dolomite | Buxton, Derbyshire

78 Sand and gravel | west of Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire

79 Limestone and dolomite | Bakewell, Derbyshire

80 Sand and gravel | Stamford & Peterborough

81 Sand and gravel | Dorchester and Watlington, Oxfordshire

82 Sand and gravel | Sible Hedingham, Essex

83 Sand and gravel | Hollesley, Suffolk

84 Sand and gravel | Kirk Hammerton, North Yorkshire

85 Sand and gravel | Nayland, Suffolk

86 Sand and gravel | Wem, Shropshire

87 Sand and gravel | Ranskill and East Retford, Nottinghamshire

88 Sand and gravel | Tholthorpe, North Yorkshire

89 Sand and gravel | Newport-on-Tay, Fife Region

90 Sand and gravel | Shrewsbury, Shropshire

91 Conglomerate resources of the Sherwood Sandstone Group | East of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

92 Sand and gravel | Armthorpe, South Yorkshire

93 Sand and gravel | Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire

94 Sand and gravel | North and west of Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire

95 Sand and gravel | Biggar, Strathclyde Region

96 Sand and gravel | Potter Hanworth and Reepham, Lincolnshire

97 Sand and gravel | Clare, Suffolk

98 Limestone and dolomite | Tideswell, Derbyshire

99 Sand and gravel | North and west of Billingham, Cleveland

100 Sand and gravel | Billinghay, Lincolnshire

101 Sand and gravel | Glenrothes, Fife Region

102 Sand and gravel | Coggeshall, Essex

103 Sand and gravel | Dorchester and Wareham, Dorset

104 Sand and gravel | Stansted, Mountfitchet, Essex

105 Sand and gravel | Welshampton area, Shropshire and Clwyd

106 Sand and gravel | South of Wrexham, Clwyd

107 Sand and gravel | Rugby and Northampton, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire

108 Sand and gravel | South of Horncastle, Lincolnshire

109 Sand and gravel | Great Dunmow, Essex

110 Sand and gravel | North of Newmarket, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk

111 Sand and gravel | East and south-east of Darlington, Durham

112 Sand and gravel | Hertford, Hertfordshire

113 Sand and gravel | Mold, Clwyd

114 Sand and gravel | Kettering and Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

115 Sand and gravel | East of Solihull, Warwickshire

116 Limestone | Craven Lowlands

117 Sand and gravel | Redgrave, Suffolk

118 Sand and gravel | Sudbury, Suffolk

119 Sand and gravel | Bedale, North Yorkshire

120 Sand and gravel | Catterick, North Yorkshire

121 Sand and gravel | Callander and Dunblane, Central Region

122 Sand and gravel | Lymington and Beaulieu, Hampshire

123 Sand and gravel | Mildenhall and Barrow, Suffolk

124 Sand and gravel | Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

125 Sand and gravel | Coventry and Rugby, Warwickshire

126 Limestone and dolomite | Settle and Malham, North Yorkshire

127 Sand and gravel | Woolpit, Suffolk

128 Sand and gravel | Coningsby, Lincolnshire

129 Limestone and dolomite | North and west of Ashbourne, Derbyshire

130 Sand and gravel | Bourne and Crowland, Lincolnshire

131 Sand and gravel | West of Stirling, Central Region

132 Sand and gravel | Strathallan, Tayside Region

133 Sand and gravel | North-east of Thaxted, Essex

134 Sand and gravel | Prees, Shropshire

135 Sand and gravel | West Tanfield, North Yorkshire

136 Sand and gravel | Whitchurch and Malpas, Clwyd, Cheshire and Shropshire

137 Sand and gravel | Diss, Norfolk

138 Sand and gravel | Chichester and north of Bognor Regis, Sussex

139 Sand and gravel | Kinross, Tayside Region

140 Sand and gravel | Dalkeith and Temple, Lothian Region

141 Hard-rock | Caerphilly, South Wales

142 Sand and gravel | Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire

143 Sand and gravel | North-east of Ripon, North Yorkshire

144 Limestone and dolomite | Peak District of Derbyshire and Staffordshire

145 Sand and gravel | Harleston and Bungay, Norfolk and Suffolk

146 Sand and gravel | Aberdeen, Grampian Region

147 Sand and gravel | Humbie and East Linton, Lothian Region

148 Sand and gravel | lnverurie and Dunecht, and between Banchory and Stonehaven, Grampian Region

149 Sand and gravel | Strachan and between Auchenblae and Catterline, Grampian Region

Sand and gravel | Grampian region

Sand and gravel | Fife Region

Sand and gravel | Tayside Region

Sand and gravel | Central Region, Scotland

Sand and gravel | Borders Region

Sand and gravel | Dumfries and Galloway Region

Sand and gravel | Lothian Region

Sand and gravel | Lyme Bay

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