Layers and sources
The data technology behind this map was conceived and developed entirely by Brasil Terras Raras. Our proprietary architecture structures, cross-references, and presents territorial information in an integrated experience built by our team.
Our system organizes mineral occurrences, mining processes, geology, mapped mining activity, protected territories, and recent events in independent layers. Each interaction reveals new relationships across the data and deepens the territorial reading with precision and clarity.
| Source or layer | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Investment areas | USGS MRDS + SGB / GeoSGB |
| Rare-earth records | USGS MRDS |
| Concentration by state | IBGE |
| Rare-earth resources | SGB / GeoSGB |
| 1:1 million geology | SGB / GeoSGB |
| Active mining processes | ANM / SIGMINE |
| 2024 mining areas | MapBiomas 10 m |
| Indigenous lands | MapBiomas / MMA |
| Federal protected areas | MapBiomas / MMA |
| Recent environmental events | NASA EONET |
| 30-day seismicity | USGS |
From isolated point to territorial context
The new layers compare different signals without turning visual correlation into a technical conclusion.
- Mineral: Locates records associated with rare earths and separates occurrences, projects, and production history.
- Territory: Summarizes record distribution by state to reveal documentary concentration.
- Environment: Shows recent environmental events and queries temperature, humidity, precipitation, and wind at the selected coordinate.
- Geodynamics: Adds recent regional seismicity as geological context without inferring local risk.