Historic mine sites in Europe

Europe is largely dependent on raw materials imports and has to supply its needs, especially of critical raw materials, from international sources. Nevertheless, Europe also has a long lasting mining history and some deposits have been mined continuously even for hundreds of years. FRAME WP7 investigates traditional mining sites and their raw material potential. In addition to the main commodities of these historic deposits, the project focuses on strategic raw materials (SRM) such as e.g. high-tech metals extracted as by-products and critical raw materials of the EU actual list. These raw materials might be contained in the ore or in residues from the nowadays abandoned mining and beneficiation activities. The dataset contains examples of historic mines that might have a potential for CRM. Related case studies give detailed information on the sites. Please note: the dataset does not reflect a pan-European assessment, but examples and case studies.
 
Citation proposal
Henrike Sievers (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR)). Historic mine sites in Europe. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/61791f24-b48c-4d10-ad3d-1edf0a010855

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Date ( Creation )
2021-10-27
Edition
version 1
Codespace
www.frame.lneg.pt
Presentation form
mapDigital Digital map
Purpose
The dataset shows examples of historic mine sites - including mine waste - and their raw material potential. (Please note: the dataset does not reflect a pan-European assessment, but examples and case studies)

  Point of contact

Website
https://www.lneg.pt  

  Custodian

Website
https://www.bgr.bund.de/  
Maintenance and update frequency
continual Continual
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Mineral resources
Spatial scope
  • European
GeoERA Keyword Thesaurus
  • Mineral Resources (category) , critical raw materials (CRM) , historic mine
European Geoscience Registry - Projects
  • FRAME , EGDI
Keywords
  • WP7 (FRAME) , historic mine sites , Europe , mine waste , tailings
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Denominator
1
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Distribution format
  • Geopackage+SQLite (1.2 )

OnLine resource
EGDI platform  

EGDI platform

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See referenced specification

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2008-12-04
Explanation
See referenced specification
Pass
true
Statement
Data provided by project partners. The dataset contains information from various sources.

Metadata

File identifier
61791f24-b48c-4d10-ad3d-1edf0a010855   XML
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

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Website
https://www.lneg.pt/  
 
 

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