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Other industrial minerals
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 mineralization that may contain one or more critical raw materials. The concentration and volume of these mineralizations 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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- Alternate title
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Other industrial minerals
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-10-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-08-27
- Identifier
- ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-industrieminerale
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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Erstellung einer Datenbank zu den Vorkommen von Industriemineralen in der Schweiz. Visualisierung der Datenbank.
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Owner
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 10000
- Topic category
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- F Geoscientific information
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Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- GEMET
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mineral industry
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geotechnics
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mineral extraction
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Mineral resources
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Geology
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- geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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- geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Associated resource
- Title
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Resources Information System
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Subtopic Category
- F1 Geology
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
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- OnLine resource
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Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
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- OnLine resource
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ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-industrieminerale
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Industrial minerals: deposits"
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- OnLine resource
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ARAMIS
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- OnLine resource
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Rohstoffinformationssystem
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- OnLine resource
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Download
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- OnLine resource
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RESTful API von geo.admin.ch
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Reference system identifier
- CH1903
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)
- 2026-04-13T09:39:01.049223Z
Metadata standard
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eCH-0271
