alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
I downloaded the MSHA's (Mine Safety and Health Administration) public datasets and create a visualization of all the mines in the US complete with the operators and details on each site.
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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.
USGS 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.
I saw your title and my first thought was "Why are there landmines in the US?" lol.
This 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
I'm glad it's those kinds of mines rather than the ones I first thought of.
Add Canada! Every province has a GIS repository of mines
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.
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".)
I love the idea of a site like this existing but the expanding dots is a really bad way to visualize this.
Downloaded from https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/mine-data-retrieval-sy.... Pipe-delimited, updated weekly by MSHA.
This 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.
Why is it active post 2001? What purpose?
Is oil considered a mined mineral, or just shale oil?
Can't see a thing. Dark on dark in Safari 26.3.
I looked for all my local mines and none of them are on here. It seems that all of the listed mines for California are stone quarries. It omits the numerous other mines.
How many of these pose asbestos hazards like the Libby mine?
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