Mines.fyi
all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
Details
- External ID
- 47094149
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mines.fyi
- Website domain
- mines.fyi
- Launched
- Feb. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 103
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.894878706199461
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- outdoor safety and environmental tech
- Vertical
- Energy & climate
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- map of mines in the us
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a single-page geospatial visualization combining open public MSHA government CSV data with a Leaflet map and client-side filtering.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: MountainProject (for mine location routing), BLM datasets, OSHA datasets, MSHA datasets, Rio Tinto global mining databases
Concerns raised: Latitude/longitude switched on some entries causing wrong geographic display, Missing or incomplete mine data for California and other regions, Omits non-quarry mines (metals, etc.), Poor coverage of abandoned/closed mine sites, Aggressive clustering makes mobile viewing show only 6 points for entire North America
Feature requests: Add Canada GIS mine repositories, Less aggressive clustering or mobile-specific clustering toggle, Include more detailed mine types beyond quarries, Better coordinate accuracy validation, Filter for mines active post-2001
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