The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) maintains
map repositories for all types of mining for the entire country. Many of the maps in
the repository are currently available in digital format.
Download Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS) that now includes the
Minerals Availability System & Mineral Industry Location System
(MAS/MILS) mineral deposit databases. Also available are GIS
data layers for geology, geophysics, geochemistry, etc. covering Arizona and the world.
Data sets are avalable in a vaviety of formats - databases, shapefiles or KML files.
Mine records of the Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS) mineral deposit database. The map
interface is an interactive GIS applet providing map mine information covering Arizona and the world.
Database of Significant Deposits of Gold, Silver, Copper,
Lead, and Zinc in the United States, 1998 by Keith R. Long,
John DeYoung, Jr., and Stephen D. Ludington. This report
includes name, location, deposit type, discovery date, past
production, and remaining resources for each deposit in the
database. Data are organized by State, with 115 deposits
included for Arizona. Deposits are also located by mining
district, county, and latitude-longitude. Download the
Arizona records
only in an Excel spreadsheet format.
