[HN Gopher] Show HN: Mines.fyi - all the mines in the US in a le...
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Show HN: Mines.fyi - all the mines in the US in a leaflet
visualization
I downloaded the MSHA's (Mine Safety and Health Administration)
public datasets and create a visualization of all the mines in the
US complete with the operators and details on each site.
Author : irasigman
Score : 24 points
Date : 2026-02-20 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (mines.fyi)
(TXT) w3m dump (mines.fyi)
| irasigman wrote:
| Downloaded from https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/mine-data-
| retrieval-sy.... Pipe-delimited, updated weekly by MSHA.
| alexchamberlain wrote:
| There are 3 mines on Manhattan; is that correct?
| leeter wrote:
| Based on the info if you click into them, likely no. I would
| have expected them to be incidental materials from tunneling,
| but reading the description that's not the case.
| kenforthewin wrote:
| I'm glad it's those kinds of mines rather than the ones I first
| thought of.
| Exuma wrote:
| How many of these pose asbestos hazards like the Libby mine?
| SaberTail wrote:
| This doesn't seem to be complete. It's missing the Waste
| Isolation Pilot Plant, for example, which should be southeast of
| Carlsbad, NM. It's a underground salt (metal/non-metal) mine, and
| MSHA definitely regulates it
| advisedwang wrote:
| This seems to include cement works and other processing plants
| that have somewhat mine-like output but aren't actually
| extracting anything from the ground at that site.
| nektro wrote:
| I love the idea of a site like this existing but the expanding
| dots is a really bad way to visualize this.
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