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Mineral Planning Factsheets

A series of Mineral Planning Factsheets are produced by the BGS. Originally commissioned to support the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) research project Industrial Minerals: Issues for Planning, the factsheets cover economically important minerals that are extracted in Britain. They are regularly updated and provide an overview of the supply of a specific mineral. They are primarily intended to inform the land-use planning process but will be of much wider interest.

Factsheets are available on:

Alternative fossil fuels (604 kb) (Oct 2011)	Gypsum (748 kb) (Jan 2006)
Ball clay (1.4 Mb) (Updated Jun 2011)	Industrial dolomite (1 Mb) (Jan 2006)
Barytes (992 kb) (Jan 2006)	Industrial limestone (2.8 Mb) (Jan 2006)
Brick clay (4 Mb) (Updated Apr 2022)	Kaolin (687 kb) (Updated Sep 2009)
Building and roofing stone (1.5 Mb) (Mar 2007)	Metals (2.05 Mb) (Updated Oct 2015)
Calcite (730 kb) (Aug 2004)	Miscellaneous (2.6 Mb) (2005)
Cement raw materials (1.78 Mb)(May 2014)	Natural hydraulic limes (508 kb) (Mar 2005)
Coal (3.14 Mb) (Updated Jun 2021)	Onshore oil and gas (1.7 Mb) (Updated Apr 2011)
Construction aggregates (5.3 Mb) (June 2019)	Potash (561 kb) (Updated Apr 2011)
Fireclay (1.9 Mb) (Oct 2006)	Salt (874 kb) (Jan 2006)
Fluorspar (806 kb) (March 2010)	Silica sand (3.7 Mb) (Jan 2020)
Fuller's earth (604 kb) (Jan 2006)	Underground storage (4.55 Mb) (Feb 2008)