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# Arizona Active Mines and Energy Producers

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Stoneburner, Ethan Lawrence (2023).
  Arizona Active Mines and Energy Producers.
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Poster. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.22766681


Corresponding Author:
  Ethan Lawrence Stoneburner, College of Architecture, estoneburner@arizona.edu


License:
  CC BY 4.0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.22766681



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## Summary

Arizona has a long history of mineral and ore mining cross the
state. Indigenous people who have lived on this land long before European
colonization knew of and respected the precious gemstones such as gold, silver
and turquoise found throughout what later became the state of Arizona. Today,
over 60 mines are active across the state. The vast majority involve the
industrial mining of sandstone, pumice and other minerals, but ore mining
(gold, copper) is still quite common. This data originally comes from the U.S.
Geological Survey and covers mining operations across the entirety of the
United States. However, this map depicts active mines solely in the state of
Arizona.

This visualization was submitted by Ethan Stoneburner to the University of 
Arizona Libraries 2023 Data Visualization Challenge.

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## Materials and Methods

Data was visualized using ArcGIS Pro and the poster was designed in Adobe InDesign