Is oil considered a mined mineral, or just shale oil?
Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
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Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
#22This doesn't seem to be complete. It's missing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, for example, which should be southeast of Carlsbad, NM. It's a underground salt (metal/non-metal) mine, and MSHA definitely regulates it
The state numbers don’t seem to marry up, unless they’re indicative of something else?
Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
#23TIL there's a mine within San Francisco city limits! https://mines.fyi/mine/0405261 (I guess technically a "surface mine" for "Construction Sand and Gravel".)
Once you learn how to spot these you'll see them everywhere on road trips and such.
I see quarries everywhere, and they’re kind of required near any city or road project around Australia. Never considered them as a mine though… more like a ‘general resource site’?
Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
#24Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
#25TIL there's a mine within San Francisco city limits! https://mines.fyi/mine/0405261 (I guess technically a "surface mine" for "Construction Sand and Gravel".)
The data set includes gravel pits. You can filter them out by selecting "Underground" for "Type".
Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
#26Please reduce the aggregation of map markers. It's not helpful to group every mine in southwest US in a single point in California that makes it look like they are none in any other state. I see this all the time on maps and it's really frustrating. Aggregate markers are helpful when the individual points are actually overlapping on the map, otherwise they obscure location data.
Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
#27This doesn't seem to be complete. It's missing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, for example, which should be southeast of Carlsbad, NM. It's a underground salt (metal/non-metal) mine, and MSHA definitely regulates it
WIPP isn't really a mine, right? More like an Amazon warehouse.
Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
#28USGS MRDATA has a lot more mines. Their data is also freely available for download. I use their datasets and base maps for my personal GIS projects. https://mrdata.usgs.gov/
It includes what most would call quarries and it doesn't include anywhere near all of them (there are basically infinite invisible quarries everywhere to make concrete because it doesn't transport well).
Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
#29This seems to include cement works and other processing plants that have somewhat mine-like output but aren't actually extracting anything from the ground at that site.
And it doesn't include all of those.
Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
#30Please reduce the aggregation of map markers. It's not helpful to group every mine in southwest US in a single point in California that makes it look like they are none in any other state. I see this all the time on maps and it's really frustrating. Aggregate markers are helpful when the individual points are actually overlapping on the map, otherwise they obscure location data.
True. Clustering on a map is usually a sign that a map was setup by someone that doesn't use it or has no interest in the data.