Land status and Federal mineral ownership in the Powder River Basin, WY and MT (prbown98g)

Publication Date

2021-05-25

Start Date

1980

End Date

1998

Release Date

1998

Biewick, L., Urbanowski, S.R., Cain, S., Neasloney, L., 1998, Land status and Federal mineral ownership in the Powder River Basin, WY and MT (prbown98g): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q72XMG.

As the Nation's energy resources continue to be examined for development, it is critical that a digital database exist that contains location data for all Federal land and mineral resources. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is collecting these ownership files and compiling them in ARC/INFO coverages, to form a standardized data library. These coverages are combined with models of coal deposits from the USGS National Coal Assessment, a five year effort to identify and characterize the coal beds and coal zones that could potentially provide the fuel for the Nation's coal-derived energy during the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Geographic and geologic data layers are integrated in a Geographic Information System (GIS) to answer complex geo-spatial questions concerning coal resource occurrence. This ARC/INFO coverage also contains location data for Federal oil and gas and other Federal minerals in the Powder River Basin (PRB).

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