Here! The textures need to be changed, but mathematically everything works! One of a great many planets. Each hex is separately modeled by climate, humidity and dozens of other parameters.
For a rough assessment of our approach to modeling, I suggest a very long read, which describes the resources that can be mined in our game. Enjoy it. And this is already implemented and working.
# Resource Catalogue
Appointment This file gives for each resource from ResourceType: - project code; - full decoding of the name; - a brief general description; - typical conditions of occurrence or formation.
The description is based on the current taxonomy of the project and general geological practice. For deposit-type terms and general geological conditions, USGS materials on porphyry, VMS, SEDEX, MVT, laterite bauxite, sandstone-hosted uranium, phosphates and evaporite minerals are used.
## Iron, manganese, chromium - '0 Fe HEM' - ** Hematite iron ore**. Description: iron ore with a predominance of hematite. Conditions of occurrence: zones of oxidation of iron-bearing rocks, sedimentary iron-bearing strata, weathered and iron-rich horizons. - `1 Fe MAG' - ** Magnetite iron ore**. Description: Iron ore with a predominance of magnetite. Conditions of occurrence: igneous and metamorphic complexes, skarns, iron-rich intrusive bodies. - `2 Fe SID' - **siderite iron ore**. Description: carbonate iron ore based on siderite. Conditions of occurrence: sedimentary basins, restorative marshy and lagoon environments, hydrothermal modified carbonate strata. - `3 Fe LIM' - **Limonite iron ore**. Description: brown iron and iron hydroxides. Conditions of occurrence: weathering zones, oxidized caps of ore bodies, swamp and soil iron-rich accumulations. - '4 Fe GOE' - goethite iron ore. Iron ore with goetite as the main mineral. Conditions of occurrence: lateritic and weathered profiles, oxidized iron-rich weathering crusts, surface iron accumulations. - `5 Fe OOL' - **Oolite iron ore**. Description: Sedimentary iron ore in the form of oolites. Conditions of occurrence: shallow sea basins, shelf and lagoon iron-rich sediments. - `6 Fe TMAG' - **Titanomagnetite ore** Description: Magnetite with a high content of titanium and vanadium. Conditions of occurrence: mafic and ultramafic intrusions, layered magmatic complexes. "7 Fe SAND" - "Iron Sands" Description: Alluvial concentrations of magnetite, ilmenite and other heavy minerals. Conditions of occurrence: sea beaches, coastal bars, riverbed and coastal wave placers. - '8 Fe BIF' - ** Banded iron formations**. Description: Ancient iron-silicon sedimentary strata. Location conditions: very ancient platform and shelf basins, usually Precambrian sequences. 9 Fe META - Metamorphized iron ore. Description: Iron ores recycled by metamorphism. Conditions of occurrence: metamorphic belts, deformed BIFs and iron-bearing layers. - `10 Mn PYR` - **Pyrolusite manganese ore**. Description: Highly oxidized manganese ore. Conditions of occurrence: oxidation zones, sedimentary manganese strata, weathering crusts. - `11 Mn CARB' - **Carbonate manganese ore**. Description: Manganese carbonates, more often rhodochrosite and similar ores. Conditions of occurrence: reducing sedimentary basins, carbonate and fine-grained marine sediments. - `12 Mn FERR' - ** Manganese iron ore**. Description: Mixed iron-manganese concentrations. Conditions of occurrence: sedimentary and cortical iron-manganese accumulations, in places in marine and coastal conditions. - `13 Cr MASS' - **Massive chromite ore**. Description: Massive and lenticular chromite bodies. Conditions of occurrence: ultramafic and ophiolite complexes, stratified mafic-ultramafic intrusions. - `14 Cr PLAC' - **Placer chromite ore**. Description: Secondary clusters of heavy chromite grains. Conditions of occurrence: riverbed, alluvial and beach placers near ultramafic springs.
## Copper, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt - '15 Cu CHAL' - Chalcopyrite copper ore**. Description: Copper ore with chalcopyrite as the main carrier of copper. Conditions of occurrence: magmato-hydrothermal systems, residential zones, porphyry and skarn complexes. - `16 Cu BORN' - **Bornite copper ore**. Description: Highly sulfurous copper ore with bornite. Conditions of occurrence: hydrothermal and porphyry systems, zones of secondary enrichment and high-temperature mineralization. - '17 Cu CHZ' - **Chalcosine copper ore**. Description: Rich secondary enriched copper ore based on chalcosine. Conditions of occurrence: zones of supergenic enrichment over primary sulfide copper bodies. - '18 Cu MAL' - Malachite copper ore**. Description: Oxidized copper ore with malachite. Conditions of occurrence: zones of weathering and oxidation of copper deposits, carbonate and fissure environments. - '19 Cu PORP' - Porphyry copper ore**. Description: Large-volume low-grade copper ores of porphyry type. Conditions of occurrence: arc and subduction magmatic belts, upper crust above intrusive centers. - '20 Cu SKAR' - **Skarn copper ore**. Description: Copper mineralization in contact-metasomatic skarns. Conditions of occurrence: contacts of intrusions with carbonate rocks, thermal-metasomatic zones. - `21 Cu VMS' - **Spoiled copper ore (VMS)**. Description: Volcanogenic massive sulfides of copper, zinc and lead. Ancient and modern marine volcanic centers, underwater hydrothermal systems. - `22 ZnPb SULF' - **Sulphide zinc-lead ore**. Description: Primary sulfide ore with sphalerite and galena. Conditions of occurrence: hydrothermal, VMS, stratiform and carbonate systems. - `23 ZnPb CARB' - **Carbonate zinc-lead ore**. Description: Oxide-carbonate and carbonate-substituted lead-zinc ores. Conditions of occurrence: carbonate strata, substitution zones and supergenic transformation. - `24 ZnPb OX' - **Oxidized zone Zn/Pb**. Description: oxidized products of destruction of lead-zinc sulfides. Conditions of occurrence: upper parts of deposits, zones of intense weathering. - `25 ZnPb SEDEX' - **Sedimentary Zn/Pb ore of the SEDEX type**. Description: large stratiform sedimentary-exgallation Zn-Pb-Ag deposits. Conditions of occurrence: large sedimentary basins with saline metal-bearing brines and reducing thin-layered sediments. - `26 ZnPb MVT` - **Zn/Pb field type MVT**. Description: Mississippi Valley-Type lead-zinc ores in carbonates. Conditions of occurrence: platform carbonate basins, migration of warm brines through porous and fractured carbonates. - `27 Ni SULF' - **Sulphide nickel ore**. Nickel in sulfides, often together with copper and cobalt. Conditions of occurrence: mafic and ultramafic igneous systems, komatiites, magmatic sulfide chambers. - `28 Ni LAT L` - **Laterite nickel ore, limonite type**. Description: Nickel in the upper oxidized part of the laterite profile. Conditions of occurrence: hot humid climate, prolonged weathering of ultramafic rocks, well-developed laterite barks. - '29 Ni LAT S' - **Laterite nickel ore, saprolite type**. Description: Nickel in the lower silicate part of the laterite profile. Conditions of occurrence: the same lateritic profiles above the ultramafic rocks, below the limonite zone. 30 Ni ULTRA - Ultra-basic nickel rocks. Description: Nickel-bearing ultramafic bodies and scattered nickel mineralization. Conditions of occurrence: dunit-peridotite arrays, ultramafic belts and igneous complexes. - '31 Co LATER' - Cobalt laterite ore**. Description: Cobalt concentrated in lateritic profiles. Conditions of occurrence: intensive tropical weathering of mafit-ultramafic rocks, nickel laterites. - `32 Co SULF' - **Sulfide cobalt ore**. Description: Cobalt as an independent or concomitant sulfide mineralization. Conditions of occurrence: nickel-copper magmatic sulfides, hydrothermal veins, polymetallic systems.
## Aluminum, Titanium, Zirconium, Tin, Tungsten, Molybdenum - '33 Al BOX L' - Laterite bauxite. Description: Residual aluminum ore in the form of bauxite bark. Conditions of occurrence: stable surfaces of alignment, warm and humid climate, prolonged weathering of aluminosilicate rocks. - '34 Al BOX K' - Karst bauxite. Description: Bauxite filling karst pockets and depression in carbonates. Conditions of occurrence: karst areas on limestones and dolomites, episodes of weathering and redeposition. - `35 Al NEPH' - Nepheline ore**. Description: Aluminum ore in nephelin syenites and close alkaline rocks. Conditions of occurrence: alkaline intrusions and arrays of nephelin syenites. - 36 Al ALUN - Alunite ore. Description: Aluminum-containing ore with alunite is often associated with acid hydrothermal change. Conditions of occurrence: volcano-hydrothermal zones, acid metasomatic change. - `37 Ti ILM' - **Ilmenite ore**. Description: Titanium in ilmenite, usually a magmatic or heavy mineral source. Conditions of occurrence: anorthositis and mafic intrusions, less often placer redeposition. - '38 Ti RUT' - Rutile ore. Description: Titanium ore with a predominance of rutile. Conditions of occurrence: metamorphic rocks, pegmatites, placers of heavy minerals. - '39 Ti SAND' - Titanium Sands. Description: coastal heavy mineral sands with ilmenite, rutile, etc. Conditions of occurrence: beaches, coastal ramparts, delta and coastal placers. - '40 Zr CIRC' - **Zircon ore**. Description: Zircon in heavy mineral placers or rare igneous rocks. Conditions of occurrence: beach and alluvial placers, sometimes alkaline complexes. - '41 Sn CASS' - **Cassiterite ore**. Description: The main hard stone tin ore. Conditions of occurrence: granite and graizen systems, hydrothermal veins, skarns. - `42 Sn PLAC' - **Placer tin ore**. Description: Secondary clumps of cassiterite. Conditions of occurrence: riverbed, deluvial and beach placers near granite springs. - '43 W SCHE' - Sheelite ore**. Description: Tungsten ore based on sheelite. Conditions of occurrence: skarn and contact-metasomatic zones, granitoid systems. - `44 W WOLF' - **Wolframite ore**. Description: Tungsten ore based on tungstenite. Conditions: quartz veins, greisens, granite and high-temperature hydrothermal systems. - '45 Mo PORP' - Porphyric molybdenum ore**. Description: Large Porphyry Mo deposits. Conditions of occurrence: acid intrusions and porphyry domes, arc and extragenic magmatic regions.
## Gold, silver, platinoids, rare earths, uranium, thorium - `46 Au QUAR' - ** Quartz gold ore**. Gold in quartz veins and associated hydrothermal systems. Conditions of occurrence: folded belts, fault zones, orogenic and hydrothermal veins. - '47 Au PLAC' - ** Placer gold. Description: Secondary gold in placers. Conditions of occurrence: river valleys, alluvium, takeaway cones, beaches below gold-bearing springs. "48 PGM NI" - Platinoids in nickel ores. Description: PGM as satellites of magmatic Ni-Cu sulfides and mafit ultramafices. Conditions of occurrence: ultramafic intrusions, stratified complexes, magmatic sulfides. "49 PGM PLAC" - Placer platinum-group metals. Description: secondary concentrations of heavy PGM minerals. Conditions of occurrence: alluvial and beach placers next to ultramafic springs. - '50 Ag POLY' - Polymetallic silver ore**. Description: Silver in polymetallic Pb-Zn-Cu systems. Conditions of occurrence: hydrothermal veins, epithermal systems, carbonate-substituted and VMS environments. 51 REE MON - Monacite rare earth ore. Description: REE in Monazite. Conditions of occurrence: alkaline and granite complexes, placers of heavy minerals, metamorphic and pegmatite systems. "52 REE BAST" - Bastnesite rare earth ore**. REE in Bastnesite, often with carbonatites. Conditions of occurrence: carbonatites, alkaline intrusions, rare metal igneous systems. "53 REE ION" - ion-adsorption rare earth clay**. Description: rare earth elements adsorbed on clay minerals of weathered crust. Conditions of occurrence: deep weathering profiles of granites and acid magmatites in warm humid climates. - '54 REE APAT' - Apatite rare earth ore**. Description: REEs associated with apatite and phosphate minerals. Conditions of occurrence: carbonatites, alkaline complexes, phosphate and iron-apatite systems. - `55 U URAN' - **Uraninite uranium ore**. Description: Primary uranium mineralization based on uraninite. Conditions of occurrence: granite, metamorphic and hydrothermal systems, sometimes unconformities and veins. - `56 U SAND' - **Sandstone uranium ore**. Description: Sandstone-hosted uranium ores. Conditions of occurrence: permeable sandstones of sedimentary basins, reducing traps, movement of oxidized groundwater. - `57 U PHOS' - **Phosphate uranium ore**. Description: Uranium as an impurity or associated component of phosphorites. Conditions of occurrence: marine phosphate basins, phosphate layers. '58 Th MON' - Thorium ore, monacite type**. Description: Thorium in monazite and associated heavy minerals. Conditions of occurrence: placers, granite-pegmatite and alkaline systems. - `59 P PHOS' - **Phosphorite**. Description: Phosphate sedimentary rock, the main source of phosphorus. Conditions of occurrence: marine shelf and upwelling basins, biogenic-chemogenic precipitation.
## Sulfur, fluoride, boron, silica, carbon, salts and brines - '60 S PYR' - **Pyrite sulfur ore**. Description: Sulfur associated with pyrite and sulfide bodies. Conditions of occurrence: sulfide deposits, ore bodies, hydrothermal and sedimentary sulfide media. - `61 S GAS' - **Gas sulfur**. Description: Sulfur emitted from hydrogen sulfide-containing gases or high-sulfur fluids. Conditions of occurrence: oil and gas basins, volcanic and gas hydrothermal systems, hydrogen sulfide traps. - `62 F FLUOR' - **Fluorite**. Description: The main fluorine-containing mineral of industrial ores. Conditions of occurrence: hydrothermal veins, carbonate substitutions, greisens and rare-metal systems. - `63 B BORAT' - **Borate ore**. Description: Boron minerals of sedimentary or hydrothermal origin. Conditions of occurrence: arid evaporative basins, volcano-sedimentary lakes, boron-bearing brines. "64 Si QUAR" - "Quartz of high purity" Description: Particularly pure quartz for glass, electronics and chemistry. Conditions of occurrence: quartz veins, pegmatites, pure metamorphic quartzites. - '65 Si SAND' - ** Quartz sand**. Description: Massive silicate sand resource. Conditions of occurrence: beaches, dunes, alluvium, sandstone pools, buried sand layers. - '66 C COAL' - **Coal of stone. Description: Mature fossil coal of higher degree of coalification. Conditions of occurrence: sedimentary coal basins, marsh and delta complexes with subsequent burial. - `67 C LIGN' - lignite. Description: Less mature low-ranking coal. Conditions of occurrence: young sedimentary basins, wetland plains, lake-wetland and delta environments. - `68 C GRAPH' - **Graphite**. Description: Carbon ore of metamorphic or magmatic origin. Conditions of occurrence: metamorphic graphite shales, carbonate-silicate strata, sometimes igneous carbonaceous systems. - '69 Na SALT' - **Stone salt**. Description: Galite salt strata. Conditions of occurrence: evaporative marine and continental basins, salt domes and stratified evaporite layers. - '70 K SALT' - **Potassium salts**. Description: sylvinite, carnallite and other potassium evaporite minerals. Conditions of occurrence: late stages of evaporation of closed salt basins. - '71 Li BRINE' - Lithium brines. Description: Lithium dissolved in highly mineralized brines. Conditions of occurrence: closed arid basins, salt marshes, intracontinental depressions with evaporation. - '72 Mg BRINE' - Magnesium brines**. Description: Magnesium-containing concentrated brines. Conditions: evaporite-pools, salt lakes, deep salt-bearing groundwater. - '73 Br BRINE' - Bromine brines. Description: Bromine dissolved in salt brine. Conditions of occurrence: deep salt water, oil and gas basins, evaporite systems. - '74 I BRINE' - Iodine brines. Description: Iodine-containing underground brines and reservoir water. Conditions of occurrence: marine sedimentary basins, organically rich waters, gas and oil-bearing areas. - '75 Na BRINE' - Salty sodium brines**. Description: Na-dominant concentrated brines. Conditions: salt marshes, salt lakes, evaporite and coastal salt pools. - '76 Ca BRINE' - Calcium brines**. Description: Ca-rich underground salt water. Conditions of occurrence: deep basin brines, oil and gas and evaporite systems.
## Water, hydrocarbons, atmosphere, heat and energy - '77 H2O FRESH' - **Fresh water**. Description: Surface and underground freshwater resources. Conditions of formation: humid climate, rivers, lakes, glacial nutrition, porous and fractured aquifers. - `78 H2O SALT' - **Sea water**. Description: Salt water of the seas and oceans. Formation conditions: stable large water basins with normal or increased salinity. - `79 HC OIL L' - **Light oil. Description: Low viscosity liquid hydrocarbons. Conditions of occurrence: oil-bearing strata, migration into porous reservoirs, structural and stratigraphic traps. - '80 HC OIL H' - 'Heavy oil.' Description: Viscous degraded or biodegraded oil. Conditions of occurrence: shallow oil traps, basins with oxidation and degradation of oil. - `81 HC BITUM' - **Bitum**. Description: Super viscous hydrocarbons, tar sands and impregnations. Conditions of occurrence: sand collectors, places of loss of light fractions, near-surface oil systems. - `82 HC GAS' - **Natural gas**. Description: Gas hydrocarbons, mainly methane. Conditions of occurrence: gas collectors and traps in sedimentary basins, thermogenic and biogenic generation. - `83 HC COND' - **Gas condensate**. Description: Liquid hydrocarbons falling out of saturated gas. Conditions of occurrence: high-temperature gas condensate tanks and deep sedimentary basins. '84 HC SHALE' - **Shale oil and dense hydrocarbons**. Description: hydrocarbons enclosed in low-permeability shale and dense rocks. Conditions of occurrence: organically rich fine-grained precipitation, low permeable basin strata. - `85 ATM AIR' - **Atmospheric air**. A mixture of atmospheric gases as a mass resource. Formation conditions: stable planetary atmosphere and sufficient surface pressure. '86 ATM CO2' - Carbon dioxide of the atmosphere or gas emissions** CO2 as an extracted gas resource. Conditions of formation: CO2-rich atmosphere, volcanism, carbonate-metamorphic degassing. - `87 ATM H2S' - **Hydrogen sulfide**. Description: H2S in atmosphere, gas emissions and brine systems. Conditions of formation: volcanic and hydrothermal gases, reducing sulfur basins. - `88 ATM NH3' - ** Ammonia gases**. Description: Ammonia and ammonia atmospheric or gas mixtures. Conditions of formation: reducing atmosphere, cryogenic and gas chemical environments. - '89 GEO HEAT' - **Geothermal fluid. Description: The thermal resource of hot groundwater and steam. Formation conditions: increased heat flow, volcanism, faults, active tectonics and hydrothermal circulation. 90 WIND PWR - Wind power. Description: The kinetic potential of wind. Conditions of formation: open plains, coasts, passes, contrasting temperature and pressure fields. 91 SOLAR PWR - Solar energy. Description: The potential of solar insolation. Formation conditions: high number of clear days, low cloud cover, low latitudes or dry atmospheres. - `92 HYDRO PWR' - **Hydropower**. Description: energy of river runoff and elevation drop. Conditions of formation: stable rivers, significant water consumption, relief with a slope. - `93 TIDAL PWR' - ** Tidal energy**. Description: The energy potential of the tides. Formation conditions: significant tidal amplitude, powerful moons or orbital resonances, coasts and straits.
Soils, biota, impacts, ice and cryoresources "94 FERTILITY" - Fertility of the soil, agrarian. Description: Integral resource of agricultural suitability of soil. Conditions of formation: moderate temperatures, sufficient moisture, organics, developed soil profile, absence of extreme erosion. 95 FERTILITY NAT - Fertility of natural biota. Description: The ability of the environment to support a natural productive ecosystem. Conditions of formation: stable moisture, mild climate, natural organic cycle, intact soils. - '96 AGRO ZONE' - **Agroclimatic zone**. Description: An integral category of suitability for agriculture and crops. Formation conditions: a combination of temperature, season length, humidity, insolation and frost. - `97 IMPACT GLASS' - **Impact glass**. Description: vitreous material formed by impact melting of rocks. Conditions of occurrence: craters, emissions and impact cover, regolith of impact basins. - '98 CH4 ICE RES' - Methane ice. Description: cryogenic methane ice or clatrato-like accumulations. Conditions: Very cold surfaces and near-surface cryospheres. - '99 NH3 ICE RES' - Ammonia ice. Description: Ammonia ice or ammonia-water cryosmixtures. Conditions of occurrence: low-temperature outer worlds, cryovolcanic and ice shells. - '100 CO2 ICE RES' - Dry ice. Description: Solid carbon dioxide. Conditions of occurrence: very cold surfaces, polar traps and seasonal CO2-freeze cover. 101 H2O ICE RES - Water ice. Description: surface and subsurface ice of water. Conditions of occurrence: polar zones, ice worlds, permafrost and cryolithozone. "102 CRYO VOLATILES" - "Deep cryovolatiles" Description: A collection of volatile substances in the ice crust and deep cryosphere. Conditions of occurrence: cold icy planets, cryovolcanic reservoirs, multicomponent ices. 103 BIO MAT - Building biomaterials. Biomass and natural fibrous/wood materials as a building resource. Conditions of formation: forests, dense vegetation, high net primary production.
## Building mass materials - '104 CLAY COMMON' - **Ordinary building clay. Description: Mass raw materials for brick, ceramics and part of the cement circuit. Conditions of occurrence: lowlands, floodplains, deltas, lake and marsh precipitation, weak slope, wet accumulative environments. "105 STONE AGG" - "Stone and rubble." Description: Mass construction stone, crushed stone and aggregate. Conditions of occurrence: rocky exits, hard root rocks, elevated and slightly covered with loose sediments areas. - '106 LIMESTONE' - ** Limestone. Description: the main carbonate building resource and the main component of the cement charge. Conditions of occurrence: marine carbonate basins, platform limestones, shallow shelves and carbonate sediments. - '107 GYPSUM' - 'Gypsum'. Description: A building and chemical sulfate mineral, an important additive to cement. Conditions of occurrence: arid evaporative pools, salt lagoons, closed lakes and evaporite sequences.
## Notes on Interpretation Alloy types usually require a source of heavy minerals upstream or along the coast. Porphyry, skarn and VMS systems are most strongly associated with magmatism, hydrotherms and active tectonics. SEDEX, MVT, phosphorites, salts and brines are tied to sedimentary basins and regional hydrogeology. Laterites and ion adsorption clays require prolonged chemical weathering, often in warm humid climates. Energy, atmospheric and agrarian positions in this project are not classical ore bodies, but integral resources of the environment.
## Reference Sources - USGS, porphyry copper deposit model: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/porphyry-copper-deposit-model - USGS, porphyry and epithermal mineral deposits: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/porphyry-and-epithermal-mineral-deposits - USGS, VMS occurrence model: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/a-new-occurrence-model-national-assessment-undiscovered-volcanogenic-massive-sulfide - USGS, SEDEX Zn-Pb-Ag deposit model: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/sedimentary-exhalative-sedex-zinc-lead-silver-deposit-model - USGS, MVT lead-zinc deposit model: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/mississippi-valley-type-lead-zinc-deposit-model - USGS, laterite type bauxite descriptive model: https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/b1693/html/bull21ut.htm - USGS, sandstone-hosted uranium deposits: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/sandstone-hosted-uranium-deposits-colorado-plateau-usa - USGS, phosphate rock resources: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/phosphate-rock-resources-united-states - USGS, gypsum statistics and information: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center/gypsum-statistics-and-information
