DNR Mineral Potential Section Projects Since 1976
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- Data Quality
- Data Organization
- Coordinate System
- Attributes
- Distribution - Get Data
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Section 1: Overview
Originator:Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
Title:
DNR Mineral Potential Section Projects Since 1976
Purpose:
The GIS data for mineral resource project footprints allows users to complete a spatial literature review of published and open-file projecs in both GIS software and web map applications. The user can link to an online project webpage to dowload digital data such as scanned reports, georeferenced maps, and GIS data.
The DNR's Lands and Minerals Division conducts mineral resource projects in order to perform the following duties:
Mineral Asset Management for School Trust Lands: Identify, describe, and designate School Trust lands that have valuable resource potential for metallic minerals, industrial minerals, and construction aggregates.
State Mineral Lease Administration: Promote and market, on a global scale, the mineral land assets to attract private capital investment to perform the high-cost and high-risk ventures of mineral resource exploration, discovery, and development. Provide technical knowledge of mineral resources and geology before, during, and after the mineral leasing process. Acquire and manage in a spatial Geographic Information System (GIS) format the state mineral lease technical mineral information about the mineral assets and mineral potential. Use that information to prioritize, promote, and protect the state mineral assets.
Represent the Trusts to Protect Trust Mineral Rights During all Land Transactions: Perform mineral potential reviews of all Trust land transactions, usually where the mineral resources are unknown, to identify and protect the high mineral potential areas that are likely to attract private exploration investment in the future. DNR faces conflicting responsibilities, but must represent the best interest of the Trust and protect it from land designations that would diminish or limit the Trust asset value. Trust mineral rights potentially represent billions of dollars of future Trust royalty revenue.
As requested map construction aggregate resources in support of Minnesota Statutes, section 84.94. Learn about the Aggregate Resources Mapping Program at: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lands_minerals/aggregate_maps/index.html
Time Period of Content Date:
January 2017
Currentness Reference:
Progress:
Planned
Maintenance and Update Frequency:
Annually
Spatial Extent of Data:
State of Minnesota
Bounding Coordinates:
-97.23
-89.53
49.37
43.5
Place Keywords:
Minnesota
Theme Keywords:
minerals, exploration, metallic minerals, mineral potential, geochemistry, drill core evaulation, lands and minerals
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Disclaimer and Copyright Protection:
Maps, Reports, Data, and Other Information - The State of Minnesota makes no representations or warranties express or implied, with respect to the use of
the information contained herein regardless of its format or the means of its transmission. There is no guarantee or representation to the user as to the accuracy, currency, suitability, completeness, usefulness, or reliability of this information for any purpose. The user accepts the information "as is." The State of Minnesota assumes no responsibility for loss or damage incurred as a result of any user's reliance on this information. All maps, reports, data, and other information contained herein are protected by copyright. Permission is granted to copy and use the materials herein for any lawful noncommercial purpose. Any user of this information agrees not to transmit or provide access to all or any part of this information to another party unless the user shall include with the information a copy of this disclaimer.
Contact Person Information:
James Olson,
GIS Analyst
Minnesota DNR - Lands and Minerals
500 Lafayette Rd
Saint Paul,
MN
55155
Phone: 651-259-5429
Email: james.olson@state.mn.us
Section 2: Data Quality
Attribute Accuracy:
Logical Consistency:
Completeness:
Horizontal Positional Accuracy:
Vertical Positional Accuracy:
Lineage:
Generally speaking each project's footprint represents the area extent of a project. If a project footprint had discontinous polygon extents then the polygons were dissolved into one record. Some of these footprints represent specific sample sites (geochemistry surface or core samples) for a project. This was chosen for the footprint to provide more detail in a spatial selection search. There is an associated attribute table with descriptions seen below.
Section 3: Spatial Data Organization (not used in this metadata)
Section 4: Coordinate System
Horizontal Coordinate Scheme:
Universal Transverse Mercator
UTM Zone Number:
15
Horizontal Datum:
NAD83
Horizontal Units:
meters
Vertical Datum:
Vertical Units:
Depth Datum:
Depth Units:
Section 5: Attributes
Overview:
PROJNUMBR - Unique project number used to identify a mineral potential project.
YEAR - Year that project/report was published or most recent open-file.
TITLE - Title of project or report.
TYPE 1 - A general project type by primary type of minerals being evaluated.
TYPE 2 - The type of project being conducted such as geochemistry, geologic drilling, geophysics, or geologic mapping.
TYPE 3 - More detail on the type of project, for example if it is a geochemistry project what type of geochemistry project is it? This could be lake sediment, soil, or peat. If project type 2 was geologic mapping, what kinds of maps were created? In this example it could be construction aggregate, construction aggregate & surficial geology.
AGENCY - The agency responsible and/or conducted the project. Most mineral potential projects were conducted by the Minnesota DNR though some were contracted out to the Minnesota Geological Survey.
URL - A URL link to the MPES project to download digital data (reports, plates, and/or data).
ONLINE - Is the project/report online to download? If no, then the project has not been scanned in yet. Hard copies of the project report are available from the DNR's Hibbing Office.
GISPRJDATA - A field that tells if the project or report has more GIS data available for download.
Detailed Citation:
Table Detail:
Section 6: Distribution
Publisher:
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
Publication Date:
05/09/2017
Contact Person Information:
Zeb Thomas,
GIS Data Systems Coordinator
Minnesota DNR - GIS
500 Lafayette Rd
Saint Paul,
MN
55155
Phone: 651-259-5637
Email: zeb.thomas@state.mn.us
Distributor's Data Set Identifier:
geos_mineral_dnr_projects
Ordering Instructions:
Please visit the download page for this dataset on the Minnesota Geospatial Commons website using the web link below (Online Linkage). Online Linkage: I AGREE
to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above. Clicking to agree will either begin the download process, link to a service, or provide more instructions. See "Ordering Instructions" above for details.
Section 7: Metadata Reference
Metadata Date:
2018-07-13 12:24:30
Contact Person Information:
James Olson,
GIS Analyst
Minnesota DNR - Lands and Minerals
500 Lafayette Rd
Saint Paul,
MN
55155
Phone: 651-259-5429
Email: james.olson@state.mn.us
Metadata Standard Name:
Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standard Version:
1.2
