Metals are crucial to society and enable our modern standard of living. Look around and you can't help but see products made of metals. For instance, a typical gasoline-powered automobile contains over a ton of iron and steel, 240 pounds of aluminum, 42 pounds of copper, 41 pounds of silicon, 22 pounds of zinc and more than 30 other mineral commodities including …
OSM's Technical Innovation and Professional Services (TIPS) Program provides off-the-shelf scientific and engineering software, customized software training, and technical assistance to its user community, which includes States, Tribes, and other OSM offices. Part of the technical assistance includes providing geospatial data and support to TIPS customers.
2012 Minerals Commodity Summaries - Free ebook download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read book online for free. U.S. Department of the Interior MINERAL COMMODITY SUMMARIES 2012 KEN SALAZAR, Secretary U.S. Geological Survey marcia k. Mcnutt, Director manuscript approved for publication January 24, 2012. For more information on the USGS--the Federal …
This dataset includes locations and associated information about mines and mining activity in the contiguous United States. The database was developed by combining publicly available national datasets of mineral mines, uranium mines, and minor and major coal mine activities. This database was developed in 2013, but temporal range of mine data varied …
To understand the contamination caused by historic mining in California, researchers sampled sediment, water, and biota (animals) during the years 1999–2004 and 2011–2012. From the data collected, a set of interactive maps were produced. The maps, along with the data release and introductory video, explain the results of the research.
Each mineral commodity chapter of the 2024 edition of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Commodity Summaries (MCS) includes information on events, trends, and issues for each mineral commodity as well as discussions and tabular presentations on domestic industry structure, Government programs, tariffs, 5-year salient statistics, and world production, …
The geodatabase contains data layers from USGS, foreign governmental, and open-source sources as follows: (1) mineral production and processing facilities, (2) mineral …
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This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release provides the descriptions of 10 U.S. sites that include mineral regions, mineral occurrences, and mine features that contain …
Mining Water Withdrawals, 2015 By Water Science School June 21, 2018. wss-wu-2015-statedata-mining_508.pdf (135.48 KB) Detailed Description. The Water Availability and Use Science Program of the U.S. Geological Survey compiles county, basin, and state-based water use and withdrawal information every five years. The information for 2015 is ...
Listed below are chapters from the Minerals Yearbook Volume III: Area Reports-International-Africa and the Middle East. These annual reviews are designed to provide timely statistical …
Based on five interrelated goals, this plan establishes a comprehensive science strategy. It provides a structure that identifies the most critical aspects of energy and mineral …
In Australia, mining services—engineering, mapping, geological analysis, specialised equipment and technologies for extraction and processing—have grown five-fold in the last 15 years, now accounting for 7% of Australian employment, far more than mining itself. ... (2012-2021) and reserves data (2018-2021) are collected and disseminated by ...
Mining water use is water used for the extraction of minerals that may be in the form of solids, such as coal, iron, sand, and gravel; liquids, such as crude petroleum; and gases, such as natural gas. The category includes quarrying, milling of mined materials, injection of water for secondary oil recovery or for unconventional oil and gas recovery (such as hydraulic …
The following sections outline the methodology used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to perform diamond assessments in Mali, the Central African Republic, Ghana, and Guinea.
This report describes a digital map generated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to provide digital spatial mining claim density information for federal lands in Oregon as of March 1997. Mining claim data is earth science information deemed to be relevant to the assessment of historic, current, and future ecological, economic, and social systems.
The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is conducting a regional analysis of water quality in the principal aquifer systems across the United States. The Southwest Principal Aquifers (SWPA) study is building a better understanding of the susceptibility and vulnerability of basin-fill aquifers ...
Symbols indicating mining-related features digitized from historical USGS topographic maps in the western part of the conterminous US. Includes prospect pits, mine shafts and adits, quarries, open-pit mines, tailings piles and ponds, gravel and borrow pits, and other features. ... This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release provides the ...
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Statistics and information on the worldwide supply of, demand for, and flow of minerals and materials essential to the U.S. economy, the national security, and protection of …
The scientific legacy of the USGS is the data and the scientific knowledge derived from it gathered over 130 years of research. However, it is widely assumed, and in some cases known, that high quality data, particularly legacy data critical for large time-scale analyses such as climate change and habitat change, is hidden away in case files, file cabinets, and hard drives …
The concept of conflict diamonds or "blood diamonds" emerged in the late 1990s when it became evident that several violent civil wars in Africa were connected to mining and trading of rough diamonds. In 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey was asked by the U.S. Department of State to help address illegal diamond mining in Africa.
Publication type: Report: Publication Subtype: USGS Numbered Series: Title: Mining, reclamation, and water quality: Series title: Open-File Report: Series number
Quality data are the foundation of well-informed decisions. The Mineral Resources Program delivers data about the life cycle of mineral resources, from occurrence to end of life, including supply chains and supply chain risks of mineral commodities.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been systematically monitoring global nonfuel mineral exploration activities to anticipate the location and quantity of future nonfuel minerals supply for about 100 commodities, with an emphasis on precious and base metals. Since 1995, the USGS has developed an annual list of 100 noteworthy prospects that were considered to have a high …
Chirico, P.G., and Malpeli, K.C., 2012, A methodology for conducting national-scale alluvial diamond resource potential and production capacity assessments, with a focus on artisanal mining: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2012–3128, 4 p.
Listed below are international publications and chapters from the Minerals Yearbook Volume III: Area Reports—International—Asia and the Pacific. These annual reviews are designed to …
Minerals Yearbook, volume III, Area Reports—International—Asia and the Pacific
September 30, 2012. Global Mineral Resource Assessments In response to the growing demand for information on the global mineral-resource base, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed assessments for undiscovered resources of porphyry and sediment-hosted copper, platinum-group elements, and potash. ... the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS ...
Minerals information country specialists at the U.S. Geological Survey collect and analyze information on the mineral industries of more than 170 nations throughout the world. The specialists are available to answer minerals-related questions concerning individual countries.