U.S. Bureau of Mines Advanced Deposit Information Tracking System: PC/ADIT
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Subjects: Ore deposits
Notes: The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Advanced Deposit Information Tracking system (ADIT) is comprised of site specific engineering , economic and other operational information on mineral occurrences, mines, and mineral processing operations worldwide.  The ADIT database covers 34 commodities which represent those most significant in terms of value, tonnage, and import reliance.  It covers over 3000 mineral operations with an emphasis on operations located in the U.S. and other market economy countries. PC/ADIT is the public access version of the Minerals Availability System (MAS) database.  The comphrehensive engineering and economic data found in MAS is used to determine the availability of strategic and critical minerals and in other analytic applications.  The PC/ADIT software is available for IBM or other DOS-based PCs.  The software and database require about two (2) megabytes of hard disk memory.

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