Other industrial minerals

This dataset shows the sites where industrial minerals have been located or mined in the past in Switzerland. Thanks to their specific chemical and/or physical properties, industrial minerals are used in various industrial manufacturing processes. Gypsum and salt are common industrial minerals mined and processed in Switzerland today. Because of their importance, they are presented separately in the Geoportal map viewer (see the <a href="https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-gips_abbau_verarbeitung&topic=georessourcen" target="_blank">Gypsum</a> and <a href="https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-salz_abbau_verarbeitung&topic=georessourcen" target="_blank">Salt</a> datasets). Some industrial minerals are currently classified as Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) in the <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1252/oj/eng" target="_blank">European Union</a> and some are <a href="https://api3.geo.admin.ch/featureattachments/ch.swisstopo.geologie-rohstoffe-industrieminerale/pdf/IRENA_NUPI_2024_Ranking_critical_materials_for_the_energy%20transition.pdf" target="_blank">considered absolutely essential</a> for the energy transition.