BGS has published an overview report, 'Aggregates supply in England: Issues for planning', on the management of aggregates supply in England, prepared by an independent consultant under the previous DCLG-BGS Joint Minerals Information Programme. The overview summarises the main findings of the report 'Managing aggregates supply in …
view moreThe results of the MRP were published in the Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Report Series and in associated data packages and open-file reports.. From 1998 to 2004, BGS undertook minerals-related activities on behalf of DTI. Prospectivity or mineral-potential mapping of permissive terrains was carried out for a range of deposit types and mineral …
view more202473 · The entire series of the Industrial Minerals Assessment Unit (IMAU) reports and maps are free to download. There are 158 reports and maps available. You can also access the IMAU data on the BGS Onshore GeoIndex map viewer. Please note: you will need to zoom in as the data is only visible at scales between 1:40 000 and 1:600 000. …
view more2012725 · BGS Technical Report WG/92/30 Subject index: Industrial minerals, flake graphite, mineral processing, laboratory techniques Cover illustration: ... industrial mineral resources, some continue to import these materials to supply their industries. Indigenous resources may not be exploited (or are exploited ineffectively) because they do not meet ...
view more202377 · The Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC) has completed scanning a subset of the Mineral Exploration and Investigation Grants Act (MEIGA) reports that are held at BGS. These reports represent the records of 267 mineral exploration projects carried out in the UK between 1971 and 1984 (NERC, 2023). The first batch of scanned reports is …
view moreBGS Website » BGS Shop » Bookshop » Geological maps » Small Scale and Poster Maps » UK Thematic Resource Maps » Industrial mineral resources map of Britain ... This map shows the broad distribution of the industrial mineral resources of Britain, including bedrock construction resources and the main sites where these are worked ...
view moreThe updated risk list provides a simple indication of the relative risk in 2015 to the supply of 41 elements or element groups that we need to maintain our economy and lifestyle. This is an update of a similar assessment carried out in 2011 and 2012. The position of an element on this list is determined by a number of factors that might affect ...
view more200421 · In 1999 BGS developed a further research project, known as ‘Minerals from Waste’, which was funded by the UK Government Department for International Development (DfID). This project aimed to improve the sustainability of mining communities by investigating the use of mineral waste as a source of construction and industrial minerals.
view more202355 · also plans to create a Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre to inform decision-making. During the past year, the BGS has provided advice on critical minerals to several UK Government departments. In particular, BGS was commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to produce the first UK list of …
view moreA mineral is a natural substance with distinctive chemical and physical properties, composition, and atomic structure. The definition of an economic mineral is broader, and includes minerals, metals, rocks and hydrocarbons (solid and liquid) that are extracted from the earth by mining, quarrying and pumping. Economic minerals are used in a wide ...
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