Ireland

What we hold: 510,000 mapped geological units, 80,000 structural features, 31,000 deposits and occurrences and 3,000 tenure records, from the Geological Survey Ireland and the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland.

Ireland: open ground, mining titles, geology and deposits, as published.

514,728
Geological units
80,749
Structural features
31,142
Deposits and occurrences
3,065
Tenure records
Live and historic titles

What we hold

The layers for Ireland.

LayerFeatures
Mapped geological unitsLithology and age where the publisher states them 514,728
Structural featuresFaults, contacts, lineaments and oriented measurements 80,749
Deposits and occurrencesMineral deposits and recorded occurrences 31,142
Tenure recordsLive and historic mineral titles from the register 3,065
Drillhole collarsWhere the ground has already been drilled 60,367
Geochemical sample recordsPublished records; a sample held in two releases or compilations appears twice 35,538

Open ground

88%

of 69,000 km² assessed carries no live title. Protected areas are not yet subtracted in every jurisdiction here, so the figure is optimistic. A dated snapshot: a pegging decision needs a live register query on the day.

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