Mineral facilities of Latin America and the Caribbean

This dataset presents information about facilities relating to the mineral industries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Facilities include mines, mineral processing plants (including refineries and smelters), oil and gas field locations, and petroleum refineries. Relevant data fields include the mineral commodity, specific forms of the mineral commodity produced, location information, facility name, operator, ownership of the facility, annual production capacity, operational status, as well as geographic coordinates and locational accuracy. These data are derived from data presented by country by the Global Minerals Analysis section of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Minerals Information Center (NMIC) in Volume III (International Reports) of the annual Minerals Yearbook.

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Campo Valore
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publisher U.S. Geological Survey
publisher_hierarchy Department of the Interior > U.S. Geological Survey
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Gruppi
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tag
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • argentina
  • aruba
  • bahamas
  • barbados
  • belize
  • bolivia
  • brazil
  • chile
  • ckan
  • colombia
  • costa-rica
  • critical
  • cuba
  • dominican-republic
  • economic-geology
  • economy
  • ecuador
  • el-salvador
  • energy-resources
  • environment
  • french-guiana
  • geo
  • geoscientificinformation
  • geoss
  • guatemala
  • guyana
  • haiti
  • honduras
  • jamaica
  • location
  • metallic-mineral-resources
  • mexico
  • mine
  • mineral-commodities
  • mineral-commodity
  • mineral-resources
  • national
  • nicaragua
  • nonmetallic-mineral-resources
  • north-america
  • panama
  • paraguay
  • peru
  • plant
  • refinery
  • smelter
  • strategic
  • suriname
  • trinidad-and-tobago
  • united-states
  • uruguay
  • usgs-5809354ee4b0f497e78f3f02
  • venezuela
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license_id notspecified
license_title License not specified
maintainer Michael S. Baker
maintainer_email mbaker@usgs.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-21T14:35:27.680233
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T14:35:27.680237
notes This dataset presents information about facilities relating to the mineral industries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Facilities include mines, mineral processing plants (including refineries and smelters), oil and gas field locations, and petroleum refineries. Relevant data fields include the mineral commodity, specific forms of the mineral commodity produced, location information, facility name, operator, ownership of the facility, annual production capacity, operational status, as well as geographic coordinates and locational accuracy. These data are derived from data presented by country by the Global Minerals Analysis section of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Minerals Information Center (NMIC) in Volume III (International Reports) of the annual Minerals Yearbook.
num_resources 2
num_tags 55
title Mineral facilities of Latin America and the Caribbean