Mineral occurrence regions

A summary geological description of 18 areas on Greenland containing mineral occurrences is provided with references. The information was provided by the Mining and Mineral Resources Authority of Greenland and represents the main geological features with respect to the formation of occurrences.

Date (Revision): 2022-01-01

Identifier: dk.geus: / mineral_occurrences_regions

Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose: The purpose of the data is to group occurrences that share a common geological regional setting, so that it is easier for a user to get an overview over how the different mineral occurrences in a region are related ?

Status: On going

Point of contact

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) - David Whitehead

Oster Voldgade 10 , Copenhagen , 1350 K , Denmark

Author

Ministry of Mineral Resources - Henrik Stendal

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology
Mineral resources

Keywords

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Greenland

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: Copyright

Other constraints: No limitations on public access

Other constraints: Conditions for Re-use of data https://data.geus.dk/geusmap/terms_20140620.pdf

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 1000000

Distance: 10000 m

Metadata language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Reference system identifier: EPSG / https://epsg.io/32624

Geometric object type: Complex

Distribution format

( 0.1 )

Oster Voldgade 10 , Copenhagen , 1350 K , Denmark

OnLine resource: map viewer ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
map viewer

OnLine resource: mineral_occurrences_regions ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map )
Greenland mineral occurrences regions

OnLine resource: mineral_occurrences_regions WFS ( OGC:WFS-1.0.0-http-get-capabilities )
mineral_occurrences_regions WFS

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: This field has no significance

Pass: No

Statement: The areas are generated by grouping different mineral occurrence locations together and assigning geographic names to them. The occurrences are described in the geologic setting of the regions.