Awesome Mining Data

What is it?

awesome-mining-data is a curated list of open datasets in the mining industry. It is part of the movement awesome on GitHub. All contributions are very welcome.

Contributing

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License

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Datasets

If you find a dataset useful in your work, please consider citing it.

Name	Real/Synthetic	Year	Description
GeoMet	Real	2022	Chemical analysis, comminution and flotation data as described in the paper Modeling geospatial uncertainty of geometallurgical variables with Bayesian models and Hilbert-Kriging.
Macpass	Real	2023	Drillholes and topography data as described in the project webpage.
Lisheen	Real	2015	Geological, geotechnical, planning and closure data.
Galmoy	Real	2012	Geological, groundwater, mining and closure data.
Porphyry	Synthetic	2020	Drillholes, mineralogy, grindability and block model as described in the paper Simulation of Synthetic Exploration and Geometallurgical Database of Porphyry Copper Deposits for Educational Purposes.
pygslib	Synthetic	2019	Collar, survey, assay data provided by the pygslib team.
MineLib	Synthetic	—	Block models provided by the MineLib research team.
WAEGO	Real	—	Downhole and surface assays by the Western Australia Exploration Geochemistry.
WACHEM	Real	—	Multi-element geochemical data by the Western Australia Exploration Geochemistry.
IMA	Synthetic	—	Mineral database by the International Mineral Association (IMA).
X-Dana	Synthetic	2021	Mineral database with chemical formula, crystal system and more.
Webmineral	Synthetic	1996	Mineral database with photographs.