Untapped Mineral Potential In Nevada Heap Leach Facilities Supports Pathways To Strengthen United States Resource Security: Public Data Repository

This repository contains data and supplementary materials associated with the manuscript "Untapped Mineral Potential In Nevada Heap‑Leach Facilities Supports Pathways To Strengthen United States Resource Security" published in Communications Earth and Environment. Contents: Main Text Table: This table presents a list of commodities classified as critical by various countries. Supplemental Figure and Tables: The supplemental documents include one figure and four tables providing additional data that were used to build the figures and support conclusions presented within the main text of "Untapped Mineral Potential In Nevada Heap‑Leach Facilities Supports Pathways To Strengthen United States Resource Security". Topics covered include a comprehensive overview of precious and critical metal production trends and remaining resource potential in Nevada and the United States. It begins with a comparison of national and Nevada-specific gold, silver, and copper production from 1991 to 2023, supported by detailed annual production data. Subsequent tables document the potential value of metals remaining within these pads, placing the main text figures in the broader context of U.S. commodity consumption, production, crustal enrichment levels, and strategic supply risk. Supplemental Datasets: Supplemental Dataset 1 — [Scholpp et al. Data Set S1]: Contains Heap leach pad site numbers, site names, site coordinates, activity status of the leach pads, targeted and potentially recoverable commodities, ore deposit types, years of activity, measured and reported area, estimated volume, and estimated tonnages of heap leach material at each site. Supplemental Dataset 2 — [Scholpp et al. Data Set S2]: Contains the estimated ore head grades, recovery rates, and composition of material spent ore remaining on Nevada heap leach pads. Supplemental Dataset 3 — [Scholpp et al. Data Set S3]: Contains the average composition of material in global ore deposit systems. Data Format and Access: All datasets and tables are provided as Excel files. References: All references cited in the Main Text Table can be found in the Main Text References Word document. All references cited in the Supplemental Data Sets, Tables, and Figure can be found in the Supplemental References Word document. *Note — Major mines of Nevada documents referenced in these files can be found on the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology website (https://pubs.nbmg.unr.edu/nbmg-s/1844.htm). Most technical reports and district files referenced in these files can be found in the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Digital Collections website (https://collections.nbmg.unr.edu/pages/home.php?login=true).