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.
Set state to Ohio. Set status to Abandoned.
Wonder why mines located in Ohio, show up in Greenland, Central America and the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
On closer inspection, the Lat/Long are switched on some of these anomalies. I did not check them all.
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.
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.
There seem to be more quarries in where I looked (near Reno) than mines. 16:1 in Allegheny is not on there - interesting place. It’s still semi active.
I was trying to figure out where to send my son to work this summer. This makes it easier. Thank, very cool!
Downloaded from https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/mine-data-retrieval-sy.... Pipe-delimited, updated weekly by MSHA.
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.
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.
Can't see a thing. Dark on dark in Safari 26.3.
Very dense, there is no mineshaft gap left!
Add Canada! Every province has a GIS repository of mines
Is oil considered a mined mineral, or just shale oil?
How many of these pose asbestos hazards like the Libby mine?
Why is it active post 2001? What purpose?
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.
under 50, actual underground mines for metals, under 175 total open pit and underground mines for metal the real numbers for rock quarys * are hidden, and I must assume that they are also a small portion of the "total"
* sell actual blocks of stone vs gravel/fill/agregate
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