Description of individual data items and codes in CRIB

Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey's Computerized Resources Information Bank (CRIB) is being made available for public use through the computer facilities of the University of Oklahoma and the General Electric Company, USA. The use of General Electric's worldwide information-services network provides access to the CRIB file to a worldwide clientele. This manual, which consists of two chapters, is intended as a guide to users who wish to interrogate the file. Chapter A contains a description of the CRIB file, information on the use of the GIPSY retrieval system, and a description of the General Electric Mark III Service. Chapter B contains a description of the individual data items in the CRIB record as well as code lists. CRIB consists of a set of variable-length records on the metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources of the United States and other countries. At present, 31,645 records in the master file are being made available. The record contains information on mineral deposits and mineral commodities. Some topics covered are: deposit name, location, commodity information, description of deposit, geology, production, reserves, potential resources, and references. The data are processed by the GIPSY program, which maintains the data file and builds, updates, searches, and prints the records using simple yet versatile command statements. Searching and selecting records is accomplished by specifying the presence, absence, or content of any element of information in the record; these specifications can be logically linked to prepare sophisticated search strategies. Output is available in the form of the complete record, a listing of selected parts of the record, or fixed-field tabulations. The General Electric Mark III Service is a computerized information services network operating internationally by land lines, satellites, and undersea cables. The service is available by local telephone to

CRIB-UTAH; Utah metal and nonmetal resource information available in the U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Data System--Computerized Resource Information Bank

“…The records include available data such as the name, location, geologic setting, commodity information, deposit development information, production, resource potential, and significant literature citations. The file uses the program GIPSY, an English-based computer language format by which new data and new records can be added easily, old data corrected and revised, and superfluous or duplicate records deleted (Keefer and Calkins, 1978). Information about a metal or nonmetal commodity, its location by district, county, longitude and latitude, Universal 'fransverse Mercator (UTM), or township and range, can be retrieved by means of interactive access, batch computer text, tabular printout, or map plots.…”

Interactive computer methods for generating mineral-resource maps

“…The Interactive CAM system was devised to shorten the map-creation time primarily through the use of interactive methods, which simplify the data-input procedures and allow the user to view the result on a graphic-display terminal immediately after each job run. Interactive CAM is used to plot on base maps information from mineral-deposit records stored in the CRIB (Computerized Resources Information Bank) of the USGS others, 1973, 1978;Keefer and Calkins, 1978). The user may make a base map only (base-map plate), may plot mineral-location data only (compilation plate), or may have both basemap and mineral-location data combined on a single map.…”

“…It is operational but has not yet attained complete coverage. See others (1973, 1978) and Keefer and Calkins (1978). CRT-A cathode ray tube.…”

“…The mineral-resource information consists of symbols showing the locations of mineral deposits in their correct geodetic positions, plus optional additional information (annotations) adjacent to each symbol. The mineralresource data come from the CRIB file (Calkins and others, 1978;Keefer and Calkins,-1978), and the base-map data come from a map-plotting program and from auxiliary digitized files. The computer-generated geographic map is variously called a geographic-map plot, a map plot, or a point plot.…”