{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Jeffrey L Mauk", "hasEmail": "mailto:jmauk@usgs.gov"}, "description": "This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release provides the descriptions of the only U.S. sites-including mining districts, mineral occurrences, and mine features-that have reported production and (or) resources of indium (In). This dataset contains the Bingham and West Desert deposits in Utah, and the Chino site in New Mexico.\nIndium is considered a critical and strategic mineral because of its use in the aerospace, defense, energy, and telecommunications sectors. The primary applications are flat-panel displays, and specialty alloys (Fortier and others, 2018). In 2021, the U.S. was 100 percent net import reliant on indium from China, Canada, Republic of Korea, and France (U.S. Geological Survey, 2022).\nIndium is most commonly recovered from sphalerite, a zinc-sulfide mineral, wherein the indium occurs in quantities of less than 1 part per million (ppm) to 100 ppm (U.S. Geological Survey, 2022). In the U.S., indium is found in porphyry and skarn deposits. The West Desert deposit in Utah is the only deposit in the U.S. with a modern National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) compliant resource estimate of indium (Dyer and others, 2014).\nThe entries and descriptions in the database were derived from published papers, reports, data, and internet documents representing a variety of sources, including geologic and exploration studies described in State, Federal, and industry reports. Resources extracted from older sources might not be compliant with current rules and guidelines in minerals industry standards such as NI 43-101. The presence of an indium mineral deposit in this database is not meant to imply that the deposit is currently economic. Rather, these deposits were included to capture the characteristics of the largest indium deposits in the United States. Inclusion of material in the database is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. The authors welcome additional published information in order to continually update and refine this dataset.\nDyer, T.L., Tietz, P.G., and Austin, J.B., 2014, Technical report on the West Desert zinc-copper-indium-magnetite project, preliminary economic assessment, Juab County, Utah, prepared for InZinc Mining Ltd. [Filing date March 17, 2014]: Mine Development Associates, 188 p., accessed March 10, 2020, at http://www.sedar.com.\nFortier, S.M., Nassar, N.T., Lederer, G.W., Brainard, J., Gambogi, J., and McCullough, E.A., 2018, Draft critical mineral list-Summary of methodology and background information-U.S. Geological Survey technical input document in response to Secretarial Order No. 3359: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018-1021, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181021.\nU.S. Geological Survey, 2022, Mineral commodity summaries 2022: U.S. Geological Survey, 202 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/mcs2022.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P97FRY3M", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.62a0edd1d34ec53d27701b99.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_62a0edd1d34ec53d27701b99", "keyword": ["silver", "copper", "United States", "location", "Utah", "geospatial datasets", "underground workings", "Earth Mapping Resources Initiative", "open pit mine", "DOI", "metallic mineral resources", "iron", "USGS", "New Mexico", "MRP", "Earth MRI", "gold", "critical minerals", "lead", "natural resource exploration", "BLM", "unspecified mine feature", "Department of the Interior", "USGS:62a0edd1d34ec53d27701b99", "Mineral Resources Program", "economy", "indium", "Energy and Minerals Mission Area", "mineral resources", "mineral deposits", "GGGSC", "mine sites", "mining district", "U.S. Geological Survey", "molybdenum", "mineral district", "Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin", "Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center", "Rocky Mountain Region", "USMIN", "platinum-group elements", "economic geology", "mineral deposit areas", "zinc", "Bureau of Land Management", "geographic information systems", "USGS Mineral Deposit Database", "geoscientificInformation", "rhenium", "deposit"], "modified": "2022-09-12T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-113.491677, 32.762439, -108.027290, 40.611862", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Indium deposits in the United States"}