Marine Placer Deposit (Areas)

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The Geological Survey Ireland (GSI), as partner and Work Package 7 (Minerals) leader of EMODnet Geology Phase III, are compiling information on marine placer deposits. EMODnet partners are submitting the spatial extent of known deposits and established information; here you can view data collated thus far. The placer deposit information presented here are locations with concentrations of detrital heavy metallic minerals or gemstones. The occurrences of such deposits are generally limited to the continental shelf regions less than 120m deep.

Data and resources

EMODnet Geology

A general description of EMODnet Geology and the accessible data.

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Data from work package 7. Marine minerals.

marineminerals.zip

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gsi:MarinePlacerDepositsArea

Web Map Service for Marine Placer Deposit (Areas)

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gsi:MarinePlacerDepositsArea

Web Feature Service for Marine Placer Deposit (Areas)

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2017-01-01 – 2023-12-31
Date (revision)	2022-09-15
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show