Mineral Facilities of Europe

By Francisco Almánzar/1, Michael S. Baker/2, Nurudeen Elias/2, and Eric Guzmán/2, 2010

/1 University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus
/2 Contractor

This geospatial database has been approved for release and publication by the
Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although this database has been
subjected to rigorous review and is substantially complete, the USGS reserves
the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review.
Furthermore, this database is released on condition that neither the USGS nor
the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from
its authorized or unauthorized use. Any use of trade, product, or firm names
is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the United
States Government.

The database can be downloaded via the Web from http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1257. 
ArcGIS shapefiles (.shp) can be extracted from a zip-compressed
file (eur_shape.zip). This dataset was created in ArcGIS v.9.3 and should work
in all subsequent versions of ArcGIS software, as well as in other open-source
software that can support .shp file formats. Please see specific software guides
for conversion between .shp files and other formats. If you do not have access
to a GIS but wish to view and query the data spatially, download the shapefile
package and open the .shp from ArcExplorer (free download from http://www.esri.com).
Data can also be viewed as a spreadsheet from table 1 in Microsoft Excel 2007 format
(see main product page for links for download). For printing table 1 is also available
as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

In addition, the PDF file for the map sheet can be downloaded and paper copies
printed. The large-format map sheet is larger than 36 x 36 inches and will
require a large-format plotter. Alternatively you can employ screen capture
software to copy only a portion of the map and maintain legibility

This geospatial database consists of ArcGIS shapefiles contained in a zip
archive.  The compressed archive file contains the geospatial database files.
See the list below.  

Please refer to the file EUROPE.txt for detailed metadata documentation for this
geospatial database.


List of files:
EUROPE.zip:

  README.txt
  USGS_ofr2010_1257_meta.txt (metadata)
  eur_shape.zip:
	(shapefile directory of mineral facilities):
	    EUROPE_DATA.dbf
	    EUROPE_DATA.prj
	    EUROPE_DATA.sbn
	    EUROPE_DATA.sbx
	    EUROPE_DATA.shp
	    EUROPE_DATA.shx