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Mineral Localities Ireland (ROI) ITM

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Minerals are naturally occurring; they are not made by humans. They are inorganic in that they have never been alive and are not made up from plants or animals. They are solid, not liquids (like water), or gases (like the air around you). Each one is made of a particular mix of chemical elements arranged in a particular way. Minerals mined in Ireland include gypsum, copper, lead and zinc.

Most rocks that we see today are made of minerals (they are the 'ingredients' in rocks).

The map shows locations where minerals have been found in Ireland. These can be on any scale, from tiny specs of pyrite to outcrops (rock which can be seen on the land surface) which are miles long.

The accuracy of the data location is to less than 10m for over half the data and to less than 100m for two thirds of the data. However the rest of the data can be anywhere up to 10km accurate. These occurrences date from the 1970s to 2009.

Data was gathered from work carried out by the GSI.

It is a vector dataset. Vector data portray the world using points, lines, and polygons (areas).

The data is shown as points. Points are coloured according to whether or not they contain metal. Each point holds information on the type of mineral, if it has metal, comments, townland and county.

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Theme Economy
Date released 2006-09-04
Date updated 2021-10-19
Dataset conforms to these standards The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
Rights notes ['Data that is produced directly by the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) is free for use under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.\nhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\nhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode\nUnder the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application.\nPlease use this specific attribution statement: "Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence".\nIn cases where it is not practical to use the statement users may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statement.', 'license']
Update frequency Other
Language English
Landing page https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ebaf90ff2d554522b438ff313b0c197a
Geographic coverage in GeoJSON format {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-11.0, 50.0],[-11.0, 56.0], [-5.0, 56.0], [-5.0, 50.0], [-11.0, 50.0]]]}
Spatial Reference Systems (SRS) Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM, EPSG:2157)
Vertical Extent {"verticalDomainName": "sea level", "minVerticalExtent": "0", "maxVerticalExtent": "1041"}
Provenance information Data was gathered from work carried out by the GSI. Paper minlocs index cards were created. These contained mineral information collected by geologists during field work. Location information was collected on Six Inch field sheets. These were subsequently digitised and data was manually entered into an oracle minlocs database. The data was imported into ArcGIS. The location points were compared with georeferenced Six Inch field sheets and edited accordingly. The data was reprojected to IRENET95 Irish Tranverse Mercator (EPSG code 2157). In 2024, The data was imported into GSI’s ESRI enterprise database using ArcGIS Pro. Metadata was updated to the new GSI standard based on INSPIRE and ISO standards.