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CHARACTERIZING RESOURCE FRONTIERS
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Mining Contribution Index
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: ICMM's Mining Contribution Index (MCI) synthesises into a single...

Global Distribution of Selected Mines, Deposits, and Districts of Critical Minerals
Image obtained from source website: Link Here. Data Description: The point and polygon layers within this geodatabase present the global...

Major Mineral Deposits of the World
Image obtained from source website: Link Here. Data Description: Regional locations and general geologic setting of known deposits of...

5189 tailings ponds in China
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: Based on statistics and geographic information system (GIS)...

Global Mapped Extents of 24,605 Mines Areas
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: Global-scale geospatial dataset of mine areas: 24,605 mine area...

Global Mapped Extents of 74,548 Mines Areas
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: The dataset comprises of 74,548 mine area polygons, mapped with...

SNL Metals & Mining - Mine Points
Image obtained from source website: Link Here. Data Description: Asset-level details on over 35,000 mines, projects and processing...

258 Failed Tailings Locations & 158 Mapped Mines
Map created from the dataset: Link Here. Data Description: Locations of 258 historically failed TSFs and 158 mapped impoundment surface...

Updated Global Mapped Extents of 44,929 Mines Areas
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: This paper updates our previous work (Maus et al 2020). The...

Global Mining Area - 21,060
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: Global-scale data set of mining areas consisting of 21,060...

Detailed Land Use and Land Cover Maps of 295 Mines
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: Detailed maps of 295 mines with the classification of 3,736 open...

Indigenous Peoples Land Map
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: Generated from 127 data sources to generate a global map of...

NASA SRTM Digital Elevation Version 3 30m
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM, see Farr et al. 2007)...

Climate Research Data Package (CRDP) - Global Annual Land Cover Maps aka ESA-CCI-LC
The 300 m CCI-LC Maps (22 LCCS classes) were obtained from the processing of the full archives of 300 m MERIS, 1 km SPOT-VEGETATION, 1 km...

RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: This new map offers a depiction of the 846 ecoregions that...


Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers: CGLS-LC100 Collection 3
Image obtained from the data Map Viewer site: Link Here. Data Description: Land cover maps represent spatial information on different...

Birdlife International: World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas (WDKBA)
Image obtained from the data Map Viewer site: Link Here. Data Description: Sites of global significance for the conservation of...

MCD12Q1.061: MODIS Collection 5 / Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500 m
Image obtained from source website: Link Here. Data Description: The Terra and Aqua combined Moderate Resolution Imaging...

Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification
Image obtained from the published article: Link Here. Data Description: Global maps of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification at an...
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