National Inventory of Orphaned and Abandoned Mines

National Inventory of Orphaned and Abandoned Mines is an open dataset from Natural Resources Canada with 8 files (CSV, ESRI REST, WMS, DOCX, PDF); catalogue record updated 2024-07-02. On CanQuery you can open 2 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

This database aggregates basic information on orphaned and abandoned mine sites from participating Canadian jurisdictions, including their name, location, jurisdiciton, and the commodity that was mined. It was originally created in 2012 through the National Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative and has undergone several updates since that time. Data on sites in each jurisdiction is owned and maintained by that jurisdiction. The database includes links to the corresponding records in that jursidiction. While the database includes common informaiton about all sites, there may be discrepancies in the types of data provided about sites in different jurisdictions and data from some jurisdictions may be updated more frequently than others.

Publisher

Natural Resources Canada

Resources

8

Catalogue metadata updated

2024-07-02