WP7 Minerals Geological Survey of Ireland

Maria Judge, Charise McKeon, Ali Robinson, Janine Guinan, Archie Donovan, Koen Verbruggen

Objective To identify and map the occurrences of mineral deposits (including aggregates, oil and gas and metalliferous minerals), within the EEZ of participating countries, based on information available to the project partners, including publicly available information (those not held under commercial restrictions)‐

Description/deliverablesCompile mineral deposit information and develop web mapping services for sharing spatial data between public organisations and authorities including EC and EU research, policy making institutions and commercial stakeholders for the sustainable geo-energy and mineral supply of Europe.

Phase 1 – Aggregate & Hydrocarbons Published Data

WP7 Task Guide circulated March 11th 2014

A guide to the deliverables associated with EMODnet-

Geology Phase II work package 7: Minerals; where ‘minerals’ refer to marine

mineral deposits on or under the seabed.

The types of mineral deposits that occur on and/or beneath the seafloor, to be included in EMODnet work package 7 are:

• aggregates • hydrocarbons • gas hydrates • marine placer deposits • phosphorite deposits • evaporite deposits • polymetallic sulphides • polymetallic nodules • cobalt rich ferromanganese crust

Aggregates Hydrocarbons Gas Hydrates

Marine Placer

Phosphorite Evaporite Polymetallic Sulphides

Polymetallic Nodules

Cobalt Rich Fe-

Mn Crust

Estonia Denmark Portugal Latvia Portugal Estonia Portugal

Finland Ireland Russia Poland Spain Latvia Spain

France France Spain Russia

Ireland Lithuania Spain

Latvia Norway

Norway Poland

Poland Romania

Portugal Russia

Russia Spain

Sweden Sweden

Phase II Deposit Types Received (By Country)September 2014

Field Information

Code Two letter country code, which corresponds to ISO3166- code http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements e.g. FI, SE, LV, IE

Deposit Type Name of deposit type

Units Quantitative measurement of deposit if available

Status E.G. License, exploration, exploitation etc.

Operator Operating company

Exploitation Type Mining Method

Block Name Name of the block, concession or deposit area

Block Number Number of the block, concession or deposit area

Data Provider Name of organisation providing data

Data Provider Contact What are the organisation/institute information contact details – email is required

Area Extent (Sq. Km) Area of deposit

Depth to seabed (m) Depth to deposit from sea surface

Aggregate Deposits

Field Information

Code Two letter country code, which corresponds to ISO3166- code. http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements e.g. FI, SE, LV, IE

Deposit Type Name of deposit type (Oil, Gas, etc)

Units Quantitative measurement of deposit

Status E.G. License, under exploration, production

Operator Operating company

Exploitation Type Production Method (Platform, seabed completion etc)

Block Name Name of the block, concession or deposit area

Block Number Number of the block, concession or deposit area

Data Provider Name of organisation providing data

Data Provider Contact What are the organisation/institute information contact details – email is required

Area Extent (Sq. Km) Area of block

Depth to Reservoir (m) Depth to reservoir from sea bed

Host Rock Formation & Age Host rock formation & age

Hydrocarbon Deposits

Field Information

Code Two letter country code, which corresponds to ISO3166- code. http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements e.g. FI, SE, LV, IE

Deposit Type Name of deposit type (Gas Hydrates)

Units Quantitative measurement of deposit, if available.

Status E.G. License, under exploration, exploitation

Operator Operating or exploring company if appropriate.

Exploitation Type Production Method if relevant

Area Name Name of the area, concession or deposit area

Area Number Number of the area, concession or deposit area

Data Provider Name of organisation providing data

Data Provider Contact What are the organisation/institute information contact details – email is required

Area Extent (Sq. Km) Area of deposit

Depth to deposit (m) Depth to deposit from sea bed

Gas Hydrate Deposits

Field Information

Code Two letter country code, which corresponds to ISO3166- code http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements e.g. FI, SE, LV, IE

Deposit type Deposit: Placer, Type: (e.g. ilmenite, rutile etc)

Units Quantitative measurement of resource or reserve, if available.

Status E.G. License, under exploration, exploitation

Operator Operating or Exploring company

Exploitation Type Mining Method if applicable

Area Name Name of the area, concession or deposit area

Area Number Number of the area, concession or deposit area

Data Provider Name of organisation providing data

Data Provider Contact What are the organisation/institute information contact details – email is required

Area Extent (Sq. Km) Area of deposit

Depth to deposit (m) Depth to deposit from sea surface

Marine Placer Deposits

Field Information

Code Two letter country code, which corresponds to ISO3166- code http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements e.g. FI, SE, LV, IE

Deposit Type Deposit: Phosphorite, Type :Nodular/Bioclastic/Phosphatization

Setting Epeiric/Continental margin/Seamount/Insular; if known

Units Quantitative measurement of deposit if available.

Status E.G. License, under exploration, exploitation

Operator Operating company

Exploitation Type Mining Method

Area Name Name of the area, concession or resource area

Area Number Number of the area, concession or resource area

Data Provider Name of organisation providing data

Data Provider Contact What are the organisation/institute information contact details – email is required

Area Extent (Sq. Km) Area of deposit

Depth to deposit (m) Depth to deposit from sea surface

Phosphorite Deposits

Field Information

Code Two letter country code, which corresponds to ISO3166- code http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements e.g. FI, SE, LV, IE

Deposit Type Name of deposit type (Polymetallic nodules)

Main Morphology Morphology type/ commentary on nodule size

Main Minerals Main minerals

All other commodities Secondary minerals (gangue)

Status E.G. License, exploration, exploitation etc

Operator Operating company

Area Name Name of the area, concession or deposit area

Area Number Number of the area, concession or deposit area

Data Provider Name of organisation providing data

Data Provider Contact What are the organisation/institute information contact details – email is required

Area Extent (Sq. Km) Area of deposit

Depth to deposit (m) Depth to deposit from sea surface

Polymetallic Nodules

Field Information

Code Two letter country code, which corresponds to ISO3166- code http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements e.g. FI, SE, LV, IE

Deposit Type Name of deposit type (Cobalt rich ferromanganese crust)

Setting Description of geological setting

Main Commodity Commodity type

All other commodities Secondary commodities

Units Quantitative measurement

Status E.G. License, under exploration

Operator Operating company

Area Name Name of the area, concession or deposit area

Area Number Number of the area, concession or deposit area

Data Provider Name of organisation providing data

Data Provider Contact What are the organisation/institute information contact details – email is required

Area Extent (Sq. Km) Area of deposit

Depth to seabed (m) Depth to deposit from sea surface

Cobalt rich Ferromanganese Crusts

WP7 Phase II – What's Next??Assess Phase I deposit types V’s Phase II deposit types submitted to date for:

• Any duplication of deposit type areas• Deposit type areas submitted to Phase II which may no longer be viable/exist (as

per submitted to Phase I)• Published deposit types which have not been submitted to date by project partners

Following from the data assessment the following will be addressed:

• Keep Phase I and Phase II deposit types separate for publishing or

update for Phase II based on Phase I?

• Add additional deposit types?• Timelines for data publication?

Timeline Deliverable

March GSI to circulate WP 7 Minerals Task Guide to all partners.

May 31st

First round of data collation. Updates and new, readily available (in-house) data to submit, in shapefile format, by all partners to the GSI.

May 31st - September 30th

Available third party data compilation and submission.

September 30th

EMODnet progress meeting. GSI to present updated draft distribution maps of: Aggregates, Hydrocarbons, and the “new” deposit types.

September 30th

EMODnet progress meeting. GSI to present update and initial draft compilation of mineral deposits layers

November 1st Final data submission form all partner

November 30th 2014

Completed draft of layers published and hosted live on the EMODnet viewer

Post November 2014

Case studies and six monthly updates thereafter

Please submit your data!!!

We ask that once your shapefiles and attribution data are complete, to please deliver these data to Charise McKeon at the GSI (charise.mckeon@gsi.ie) by November 1st 2014.

On receiving your data, GSI will standardise these data, then author WMS service layers, which will be consumed within the EMODnet viewer.

If you require comment or advice at any time, on any aspect of WP7, then feel free to contact the relevant personnel.

Please submit your data for compilation to Charise McKeon (charise.mckeon@gsi.ie) cc’ing: Maria Judge (maria.judge@gsi.ie)

Thank You for Listening

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Data Gaps- examples of data mapped on the ISA viewer

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Data Gaps- examples of data mapped on the ISA viewer