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Mining from the Water Use database Date Type: Year; Country: USA; Indicator: Mining, total withdrawals, fresh, in Mgal/d Sage Data. Sage Publishing Ltd Sage Data [electronic resource]

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United States Geological Survey
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Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, Inc. 2025
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Provides estimates of water used for the extraction of naturally occurring minerals including solids (eg, coal, sand, gravel, and other ores), liquids (eg, crude petroleum), and gases (eg, natural gas). Also includes uses associated with quarrying, milling and other preparations customarily done at the mine site, injection of water for secondary oil recovery or for unconventional oil and gas recovery (eg, hydraulic fracturing), and other operations associated with mining activity. The category does not include water associated with dewatering of the aquifer that is not put to beneficial use, or water used in processing, such as smelting, refining petroleum, or slurry pipeline operations. These processing uses are included in industrial water use. The USGS National Water Use Information Program compiles and publishes water use data for the United States, states, and counties. Water use refers to water that is used for specific purposes. Water use data is collected by area type and source, e.g., rivers or groundwater, and category, e.g., public supply or irrigation. Water use data has been reported every five years since 1950, for years ending in "0" and "5". The USGS works in cooperation with local, state, and federal agencies, as well as academic and private organizations, to collect and report total withdrawals. Annual water use data are expressed in units of million gallons per day (abbreviated as Mgal/d) and thousand acre-feet per year. For the irrigation category, water use data are the average daily quantities used over a period of a year and do not represent actual daily rates. In most parts of the nation, irrigation water is applied during only a part of each year and at variable rates; therefore, the actual rate of application is much greater than the average daily rate. For all other categories, the daily quantity of water that is withdrawn may be based on daily, or more often, monthly, usage that is averaged to a daily quantity. Water use data are reported by source (surface water or groundwater, fresh and saline, and total), and category.
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9781071842270 Sage Data Foundations
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Statistical data with bibliographic citation and abstract.
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