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Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

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Post by AlotOfReading »

buildbot wrote: post #16
koshergweilo wrote: post #15

I don't know why, but when I read the title I assumed the map was about landmines. No, these are the cool ones that take stuff out of the ground, not the ones that destroy everything above them

I had exactly the same thought, and was quite intrigued. Very disappointed actually, it would be cool if there was open data about land mines.

The US government has been pretty good about cleaning up the UXO it knows about, which means what's left is the UXO it doesn't know about. You'll find it near most of the current and former testing ranges, particularly Yuma Proving Ground where there's trails leading right from the adjacent BLM land into areas with potential UXO. The only real barriers are a few signs and the law.

Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

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greggsy wrote: post #23
maxbond wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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’?

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Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

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Post by defrost »

dboreham wrote: post #25
simonw wrote: post #12

TIL 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".

Wouldn't that also filter out every open cut surface mine that strips overburden and directly extracts near surface coal, copper deposits, iron ore, etc.

Not every mine is a "classic" underground mine with tunnels, etc.

See (for example) the W.Australian SuperPit gold mine which consolidated every shaft mine in a particular region into a single open pit that goes deeper than any pre existing underground mine in that area.

Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

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Post by alan_sass »

Just a heads-up that this is nowhere near "all the mines" in Nevada. I've explored quite a few personally, live by some, and that entire list of my memories is missing. NV is also not included in the list of top 10 states which is a clear indicator of missing data fwiw.

Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

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Post by defrost »

dboreham wrote: post #34
Exuma wrote: post #5

How many of these pose asbestos hazards like the Libby mine?

The Libby mine isn't in the data set because it's no longer operational.

The US, like many countries and regions, has poor coverage of abandoned, closed, and shuttered mine sites despite such sites still posing an ongoing danger in terms of imminent physical danger (collapse, decay, etc) and untreated waste piles and ponds leaching toxins into ground waters, etc.

To answer the question posed, "how many (US?) mine sites pose a danger of type {X}" requires crawling the US BLM datasets, the OSHA datasets, the archived (from when active) MSHA datasets, and having a some luck onside for various specific sites due to large gaps and periods of not caring at all.

See:

* https://www.epa.gov/epcra/does-msha-have-jurisdiction-over-i...

* https://www.blm.gov/programs/aml-environmental-cleanup/aml

Various transnational global mining companies (Rio Tinto, et al) have extensive datasets on global resources and minesites, both operational, and past and potential future sites.

Re: Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

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Post by nick49488171 »

pimlottc wrote: post #26

Please 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.

Agreed. Huge annoyance when looking for routes on MountainProject as one example.
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