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Other industrial minerals: Discovery and mining sites
This dataset shows the sites where industrial minerals have been located or mined in the past in Switzerland. Thanks to their specific chemical and/or physical properties, industrial minerals are used in various industrial manufacturing processes. Gypsum and salt are common industrial minerals mined and processed in Switzerland today. Because of their importance, they are presented separately in the Geoportal map viewer (see the <a href=" https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-gips_abbau_verarbeitung&topic=georessourcen" target="_blank">Gypsum</a> and <a href="https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-salz_abbau_verarbeitung&topic=georessourcen" target="_blank">Salt</a> datasets ). Some industrial minerals are currently classified as Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) in the <a href=" https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1252/oj/eng" target="_blank">European Union</a> and some are <a href="https://api3.geo.admin.ch/featureattachments/ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-industrieminerale/pdf/IRENA_NUPI_2024_Ranking_critical_materials_for_the_energy%20transition.pdf" target="_blank">considered absolutely essential</a> for the energy transition. Several sites listed in this dataset indicate a mineralisation that may contain one or more critical raw materials. The concentration and volume of these mineralisations are essentially unknown or insignificant. Based on current knowledge, a commercial exploitation of these occurrences does not appear feasible. Gypsum and salt aside, no industrial minerals are currently being mined commercially. Users are invited to consult the report <a href="https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Texte/?ProjectID=57845" target="_blank">Critical Raw Materials in Switzerland – A Review</a> for a more detailed geological overview of the situation regarding CRMs. Other critical raw materials are shown in the <a href="https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-vererzungen&topic=georessourcen" target="_blank">Metallic raw materials</a> dataset. In case it is desired to develop a mining site, it is essential to conduct a detailed geological investigation on the location of interest. This dataset is periodically updated and does not claim to be exhaustive .
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Other industrial minerals
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-12-14
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-08-27
- Identifier
- ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-industrieminerale
- Status
- Historical archive
Owner
Owner
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- F Geoscientific information
- Q Utilities communication
- T Economy
- L Environment
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GEMET
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mineral resource
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ore
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extractive industry
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resources
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raw material securing
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mineral extraction
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geology
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mining
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Geology
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Mineral resources
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- geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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mine
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lithology
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raw material extraction
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spatial development
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confederation
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opendata.swiss
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Subtopic Category
- F1 Geology
- Subtopic Category
- E1 Spatial Planning, Spatial Development
- Distribution format
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GeoJSON (GEOJSON)
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Digital transfer options
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Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch
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ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-industrieminerale
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Industrial minerals"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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rawmaterials.swissgeol.ch
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Rohstoffinformationssystem (RIS)
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- OnLine resource
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Download
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- OnLine resource
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- OnLine resource
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ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-industrieminerale
WTMS-FSDI service, layer "Industrial minerals"
Identifier
- Code
- EPSG:2056
- Description
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CH1903+ / LV95 (EPSG:2056)
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- ec3471db-6e86-4148-abbf-d702196381bd
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Owner
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/ec3471db-6e86-4148-abbf-d702196381bd
- Date info (Creation)
- 2011-07-21T13:20:48Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-08-13T06:13:25.505833Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
