Principal Areas of Mine Pollution (PAMP)
Metadata:
- Identification_Information:
- Citation:
- Citation_Information:
- Originator: Office of Mine Reclamation
- Publication_Date: 2000
- Title: Principal Areas of Mine Pollution (PAMP)
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data
- Publication_Information:
- Publication_Place: Sacramento, CA
- Publisher: Department of Conservation
- Description:
- Abstract:
- The PAMP (Principal Areas of Mine Pollution) data set is a compilation of 2,422 mining
operations and their potential water-quality problems. This information was originally
compiled in 1972 by the Division of Mines and Geology for the State Water Resources
Control Board. It was published in a series of volumes of tabular data. The data set
includes operations where production exceeded $100,000 or where other factors indicated a
high potential for pollution.
- Purpose:
- The PAMP data set was converted to a digital format by the Office of Mine Reclamation to
provide a digital data set describing abandoned mines that may have pollution problems.
This data set is not intended to be a statement of fact that any of the listed sites do
have such problems. Instead, it provides a starting point for locating and investigating
abandoned mines in order to make such determinations. It is a known fact that the reported
coordinates for the mines in this data set often have poor spatial accuracy. Because of
this, additional information sources should be consulted in order to accurately locate the
sites.
- Time_Period_of_Content:
- Time_Period_Information:
- Single_Date/Time:
- Calendar_Date: 1972
- Currentness_Reference: publication date
- Status:
- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
- Spatial_Domain:
- Bounding_Coordinates:
- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -124.15833333
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -114.25133333
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.0
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 32.538333333
- Keywords:
- Theme:
- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Theme_Keyword: Mine
- Theme_Keyword: Pollution
- Access_Constraints: None
- Use_Constraints:
- The information contained herein is copyright by the Department of Conservation. All use
of this data set must cite the Department of Conservation as the originator.
- Point_of_Contact:
- Contact_Information:
- Contact_Organization_Primary:
- Contact_Organization: Office of Mine Reclamation
- Contact_Address:
- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 801 K Street, MS 09-06
- City: Sacramento
- State_or_Province: CA
- Postal_Code: 95814
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: +1 (916) 323-9198
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +19163224862
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: omr@consrv.ca.gov
- Hours_of_Service: Monday through Friday, 8am - 5pm, except holidays.
- Contact_Instructions:
- Please specify the contact relates to the PAMP data set in any communications (esp.
email, fax, and postal mail).
- Data_Set_Credit:
- Sarah Reeves, Eric Miller, Hiep Trinh, Gail Newton, anonymous DMG staff
- Native_Data_Set_Environment:
- Data Set is available as a tab delimited file. The first record contains the field
names, the record terminator is a Windows style carriage return and line feed pair.
- Data_Quality_Information:
- Attribute_Accuracy:
- Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
- The attributes of the data set have been transcribed from the original printed format.
Coordinates were given in Decimal Minutes, so an additional field containing a conversion
to decimal degrees waw created. Due to field length limitations imposed by the database,
some of the data in some of the fields is truncated. One will encounter these truncated
fields from time to time where a word abrubtly ends. There is no intention to revist and
remedy the data affected by this.
- Logical_Consistency_Report:
- The original data source was comprised of tabular data with fairly free form text
entries under each of these fields. No effort was made to "normalize" this
information, and it was input verbatim.
- Completeness_Report:
- The original data set was compiled based on mines that had greater than $100,000 of
production or that had other factors indicating a potential pollution problem. There is no
information about whether any attempt was made to normalize the dollar figures used in the
selection criteria or what the additional selection criteria were. It is not possible to
determine the completeness of the data, and it is likely there were many ommissions of
mines that may have pollution problems but did not meet the selection criteria.
- Positional_Accuracy:
- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
- Coordinates in the original data set were given in degrees and decimal minutes with up
to two decimal places. Anecdotal spatial accuracy assessments indicate the data is
generally of poor spatial accuracy, and is often off by as much as 1000 meters. It is
likely that the original data set was compiled using reported USPLSS coordinates, and
therefore may represent a center of a section or a center of a quarter section. However,
because the USPLSS system has been adjusted over the years, transcription of very old
information to coordinates using more recent maps likely introduced another source of
error. Additionally, typing errors have been discovered and corrected for a few
coordinates where the error was obvious, such as the transposition resulting in 112 for a
longitude coordinate that should have been 121. Non-obvious errors were entered as
reported in the original document.
- Lineage:
- Source_Information:
- Source_Citation:
- Citation_Information:
- Originator: Division of Mines and Geology
- Publication_Date: 1972
- Title: Principal Areas of Mine Pollution
- Other_Citation_Details: Compiled for the State Water Resources Control Board.
- Type_of_Source_Media: paper
- Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
- Time_Period_Information:
- Single_Date/Time:
- Calendar_Date: 1972
- Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
- Source_Citation_Abbreviation: DMG
- Source_Contribution:
- The Division of Mines and Geology compiled this data set based on the resources
available to them in 1972. The digital data set is a transcription of this information.
- Process_Step:
- Process_Description:
- A simple flat file database was used for data entry. The conversion of coordinates from
degrees and decimal minutes to decimal degrees was performed automatically during data
entry. Following completion, the data set was dumped into a tab delimited text file for
easy portability.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: DMG
- Process_Date: 2000
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
- Detailed_Description:
- Entity_Type:
- Entity_Type_Label: PAMP.TAB
- Entity_Type_Definition:
- PAMP data set as tab delimited text with Windows style carriage return line feed pairs
as record terminators. The first record contains the attribute names for each column.
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source:
- Original _Principal Areas of Mine Pollution_ report with the addition of decimal degrees
coordinates.
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: PAMP_key
- Attribute_Definition: Positive Unique Integer Number
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Automatically generated by the database system.
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Range_Domain:
- Range_Domain_Minimum: 1
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 30000
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: PAMP_NUM
- Attribute_Definition:
- Concatenation of the Printed Volume Number and the Record in that volume.
- Attribute_Definition_Source:
- Based on the Original Data source volume and tabular record identifier.
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Range_Domain:
- Range_Domain_Minimum: 1A000A
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 9Z999Z
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: NAME_OF_MI
- Attribute_Definition: Name of Mine
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Enumerated_Domain:
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: any text
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 50 characters
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Hardcopy PAMP publication
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: OWNER
- Attribute_Definition: Owner(s) of the Mine
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Enumerated_Domain:
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Any text
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 100 characters
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: DMLAT
- Attribute_Definition:
- Degrees Decimal Minutes of Latitude as a character string without delimiters
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Range_Domain:
- Range_Domain_Minimum: 320000
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 420000
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure:
- Degrees and Decimal Minutes of Latitude (assumed North, degrees are first two
characters, minutes are third and fourth characters, decimal minutes are fifth and sixth
characters).
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: DMLONG
- Attribute_Definition:
- Degrees Decimal Minutes of Longitude as a character string without delimiters
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Range_Domain:
- Range_Domain_Minimum: 1140000
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 1245999
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure:
- Degrees Decimal Minutes of Longitude (assumed west, degrees are first three characters,
minutes are fourth and fifth characters, decimal minutes are sixth and seventh
characters.)
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: DDLAT
- Attribute_Definition: Floating Point Double representing Decimal Degrees of
Latitude.
- Attribute_Definition_Source:
- Conversion of DDMM.mm format in original publication to DD.dd format.
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Range_Domain:
- Range_Domain_Minimum: 32.0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 42.0
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Decimal Degrees of Latitude
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: DDLONG
- Attribute_Definition:
- Floating Point Double representing Decimal Degrees of Longitude with negative sign for
western hemisphere.
- Attribute_Definition_Source:
- Conversion of DDDMM.mm format in original publication to -DDD.dd format.
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Range_Domain:
- Range_Domain_Minimum: -124.9
- Range_Domain_Maximum: -114.0
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Decimal Degrees of Longitude.
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: COUNTY
- Attribute_Definition: One or more of the 58 county names for California.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Enumerated_Domain:
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: any text
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 50 characters
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Original Data Source.
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: COMMODITIE
- Attribute_Definition: Commodities produced by the mine
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Enumerated_Domain:
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: any text
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 50 characters
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Hardcopy PAMP publication
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: HISTORY
- Attribute_Definition: Historical Information about the mine.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Enumerated_Domain:
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: any text
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 70 characters
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: TYPE_OF_MI
- Attribute_Definition: Type of Mine Operation.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Enumerated_Domain:
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: any text
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 70 characters
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: original publication
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: POINT_OF_D
- Attribute_Definition:
- Point of Discharge, indicating where the mine would discharge to (as in water bodies).
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP harcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Enumerated_Domain:
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: any text
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 70 characters
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: original hardcopy
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: POTENTIAL_
- Attribute_Definition: Potential Problem -- Indicating the potential pollutants.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Enumerated_Domain:
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: any text
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 100 characters
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: original publication
- Attribute:
- Attribute_Label: REFERENCES
- Attribute_Definition: Literature References for the mine.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: PAMP hardcopy publication
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
- Enumerated_Domain:
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: any text
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 50 characters
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: original publication
- Metadata_Reference_Information:
- Metadata_Date: 20000804
- Metadata_Contact:
- Contact_Information:
- Contact_Person_Primary:
- Contact_Organization: Office of Mine Reclamation
- Contact_Address:
- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 801 K Street, MS 09-06
- City: Sacramento
- State_or_Province: CA
- Postal_Code: 95814
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: +1 (916)323-9198
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +19163224862
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:
omr@consrv.ca.gov
- Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
- SDTS_Terms_Description:
- SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 2422
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
- Geographic:
- Latitude_Resolution: 0.1
- Longitude_Resolution: 0.1
- Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
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