MINDeSEA WP5 Marine Placer Deposits (Area)

Marine placer deposits have received much attention during marine exploration. They comprise detrital heavy metallic minerals and gemstones, eroded from, usually igneous, source rocks on land and transported to sea, mostly by rivers. Thereby placer deposits are concentrated by water motions (waves, tides, currents). The most important of these minerals, from an economical aspect, are: cassiterite (tin), ilmenite and rutile (titanium), zircon (zirconium), chromite (chromium), monazite (thorium), magnetite (iron), gold; the principle gemstone is diamond (Harben & Bates 1990). According to Daesslé and Fischer (2013) about 75% of the world’s tin, 11% of gold, and 13% of platinum are extracted from placers (Baker et al. 2014). Marine placer occurrences can be classified taking into account various factors.
 
Citation proposal
(2019) . MINDeSEA WP5 Marine Placer Deposits (Area). https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/5ee0c4f6-2f64-42e6-98c4-37dc0a010833

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Date ( Creation )
2019-04-27
Date ( Publication )
2019-04-27
Date ( Revision )
2020-04-27
Edition
MINDeSEA WP5
Codespace
https://www.europe-geology.eu/
Presentation form
modelDigital Digital model
Purpose
One of the main objectives of the MINDeSEA project is to compile fragmented marine data products and metadata on areas explored and investigated for marine placer deposits and make them available through an information platform. The portal will provide access to data and metadata held by each organisation based on standards developed in the Geo-Seas (www.geo-seas.eu) and EMODnet-Geology (www.emodnet-geology.eu) projects and data products compiled at a scale of 1:250,000 (Phase 2), 1:100.000 (Phase 3) and more detailed scale when possible. We need to know and understand the location, extent and formation processes of marine placer deposits and how they are concentrated on the mineralization. It is necessary to identify areas with potential deposits as sources of the marine placer minerals within the EU and associated countries waters. The specific objectives of MINDeSEA WP5 will be: - Provide a systematic characterisation of marine placer deposits, by means of geological setting, sourcing, age, mineral content and other controlling factors. - Identify the main provinces where such deposits occur, taking into account spatial and temporal attributes, and provide models of formation. - Develop harmonised datasets and maps of marine placer deposits for the European seas, along with mineral-potential and prospectivity maps. - Establish synergy with on-shore RM research projects to use common standards and methodologies where applicable. - Analyse present-day status in terms of regulation, legislation and exploitation of placer deposits and demonstrate the efficiency of a pan-European research approach for mineral exploration.

  Principal investigator

Website
https://gr.linkedin.com/in/irene-zananiri-195b2461  
Maintenance and update frequency
annually Annually
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Sea regions
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
GeoERA Keyword Thesaurus ( Theme )
  • ilmenite , zircon , rutile , monazite , leucoxene , garnet , industrial mineral , mineral deposit
European Geoscience Registry - Projects ( Theme )
  • MINDeSEA
INSPIRE theme register ( Discipline )
  • Mineral resources
GEMET - Themes, version 4.1.4, 13 Feb 2020 ( Discipline )
  • earth science
GEMET - Themes, version 4.1.4, 13 Feb 2020 ( Discipline )
  • geology
GEMET - Themes, version 4.1.4, 13 Feb 2020 ( Place )
  • marine geology
SeaDataNet sea areas ( Place )
  • Baltic Sea
DBpedia ( Place )
  • Europe
ISO 3166 ( Place )
  • Latvia
ISO 3166 ( Stratum )
  • Poland
EIONET - themes, version 4.1.4, 2020-02-13 ( Stratum )
  • lithosphere
EIONET - themes, version 4.1.4, 2020-02-13 ( Theme )
  • hydrosphere
LinkedIn ( Theme )
  • Institute of Geology & Mineral Exploration (IGME)
DBpedia ( Temporal )
  • Geological Survey Ireland
DBpedia ( Temporal )
  • 1970
DBpedia ( Temporal )
  • 2019
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Denominator
230000
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
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Vertical extent

Minimum value
1
Maximum value
50
OnLine resource
MINDeSEA Website  

Project website

OnLine resource
EGDI platform  

EGDI platform

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See referenced specification
Pass
true
Statement
Data modeling used D2.8.III.21 Data Specification on Mineral resources - Technical Guidelines to generate data schema for Ferro-manganese Crusts data produced by EMODnet Geology WP7 Minerals and MINDeSEA WP8 Link to Information Plaform for MINDeSEA WP4 Ferro-manganese crusts, phosphorites and Critical Raw Materials. The INSPIRE MineralResourcesCore UML class diagam applied for the spatial data attributes includes the following feature types: MineralOccurrence, Mine, MiningActivity, MineralDepositModel. The MINDeSEA WP4 applies the following tables: Chemistry, economic, environment, metallogeny, other and phosphoritesCriticalRawMaterials as agreed by the WP4 and WP8 leaders.

Metadata

File identifier
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Metadata language
eng English
Character set
utf-8 UTF8
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2021-11-25
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/INSPIRE_TG2/CZ4
Metadata standard version
2003/cor.1/2006

  Point of contact

Website
https://www.gsi.ie/en-ie/programmes-and-projects/marine-and-coastal-unit/Pages/default.aspx  
 
 

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