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Posted by irasigman 7 hours ago

Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization(mines.fyi)
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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irasigman 7 hours ago|
Downloaded from https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/mine-data-retrieval-sy.... Pipe-delimited, updated weekly by MSHA.
alexchamberlain 7 hours ago|
There are 3 mines on Manhattan; is that correct?
leeter 7 hours ago|||
Based on the info if you click into them, likely no. I would have expected them to be incidental materials from tunneling, but reading the description that's not the case.
greggsy 4 hours ago|||
Quarries?
advisedwang 6 hours ago||
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.
bombcar 4 hours ago|
And it doesn't include all of those.
jeffbee 2 hours ago||
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.
greggsy 4 hours ago||
Is oil considered a mined mineral, or just shale oil?
w10-1 5 hours ago||
Can't see a thing. Dark on dark in Safari 26.3.
Exuma 7 hours ago|
How many of these pose asbestos hazards like the Libby mine?
dboreham 3 hours ago|
The Libby mine isn't in the data set because it's no longer operational.
defrost 3 hours ago|||
The US, like many countries and regions, has poor coverage of abandoned, closed, and shuttered mine sites despite such sites still posing an ongoing danger in terms of imminent physical danger (collapse, decay, etc) and untreated waste piles and ponds leaching toxins into ground waters, etc.

To answer the question posed, "how many (US?) mine sites pose a danger of type {X}" requires crawling the US BLM datasets, the OSHA datasets, the archived (from when active) MSHA datasets, and having a some luck onside for various specific sites due to large gaps and periods of not caring at all.

See:

* https://www.epa.gov/epcra/does-msha-have-jurisdiction-over-i...

* https://www.blm.gov/programs/aml-environmental-cleanup/aml

Various transnational global mining companies (Rio Tinto, et al) have extensive datasets on global resources and minesites, both operational, and past and potential future sites.

jeffbee 2 hours ago|||
The map has a "Status" predicate.