Critical minerals

Global distribution of selected mines, deposits, and districts of critical minerals: Approximate locations and short descriptions of mines, deposits, and districts where critical minerals are found. The critical minerals are discussed in USGS Professional Paper 1802.

All Critical Minerals
Critical minerals
legend for critical minerals by commodity
Site names
Individual critical minerals
Antimony
Barite
Beryllium
Cobalt
Fluorite
Gallium
Germanium
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Indium
Lithium
Manganese
Niobium and Tantalum
Platinum-group elements
Rare-earth elements
Rhenium
Tellurium
Tin
Titanium
Vanadium
Zirconium and Hafnium
Geographic reference information
US States
US Counties
County names
USGS map quadrangles
Quadrangle names

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