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Training and validation data from the AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition (ver. 2.0, July 2025)

Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

Extracting useful and accurate information from scanned geologic and other earth science maps is a time-consuming and laborious process involving manual human effort. To address this limitation, the USGS partnered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to run the AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition, soliciting innovative solutions for automatically georeferencing and extracting features from maps. The competition opened for registration in August 2022 and concluded in December 2022. Training, validation, and evaluation data from the competition are provided here, as well as competition details and baseline solutions. The data are derived from published sources and are provided to the public to support continued development of automated georeferencing and feature extraction tools. References for all maps are included with the data. First Posted - December 27, 2023 Revised - July 21, 2025

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date December 23, 2023
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date December 23, 2023
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
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