Images

Pie chart showing copper production in leading copper producing U.S. states in 2020 by Eric Anderson of the Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, August 2024

Screenshot of Colorado Legacy Mine Lands Watershed Delineation and Scoring Tool (WaDeS) showing Cadmium (Cd) metal concentration figure in samples sorted by rank in relation to chronic and acute toxicity values. Samples are grouped by concentration scores, displayed on the right axis.

Screenshot of Colorado Legacy Mine Lands Watershed Delineation and Scoring Tool (WaDeS) showing individual location information popup window. For more information, see https://geonarrative.usgs.gov/colmlwades/.

Screenshot of USGS web application Colorado Legacy Mine Lands Watershed Delineation and Scoring Tool (WaDeS) landing page, available at https://geonarrative.usgs.gov/colmlwades/.

Photograph of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. Photo taken on September 8, 2023.

USGS scientists performing a step-injection aquifer test while drilling a bedrock borehole at the Perigo Mine site, Colorado during September 2023.

USGS scientists sampling a streambank well in the upper East Mancos watershed, Colorado in August, 2023.

The historical Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana was developed during open-pit mining of polymetallic veins that overlie a porphyry stockwork vein deposit at depth. The veins are hosted in the Butte granite, one of many granitic phases of the Boulder batholith. View is to the north-northeast.

Montana Tunnels mine open pit with vibrant blue pit lake at the bottom located near Wickes, Montana.

Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from U.S. Geological Survey 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the US

Screenshot of the USGS Glacier Dashboard, an interactive map and data viewer of available datasets on glacier outlines, ice thickness, ice velocity, and glacier surface elevation change to assess the vulnerability of Alaskan glaciers.

Screenshot of EcoSHEDS home page, a USGS web application. EcoSHEDS is a collection of Spatial Hydro-Ecological Data Systems (SHEDS) designed to improve our understanding of stream ecosystems.

Screenshot of the Invasive Species Habitat Tool (INHABIT) web application to provide information and documentation on the potential distribution of invasive vegetation species in the contiguous United States.

Overview of the Morenci porphyry Cu open pit operations in Arizona, USA.

View of the Chino porphyry copper (Cu) mine, New Mexico, facing roughly southeast from within the open pit.

Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from U.S. Geological Survey 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the US

This map shows the airborne geophysical survey area and planned flight paths across the Illinois River Basin in Illinois and northwest Indiana. Surveys will not occur directly above populated areas. Planned flight lines and survey progress can be found online. 

(USGS map) 

The anomaly at Pennington Mountain is visible in the geophysical data collected in aerial surveys conducted in 2021.

The return signal from the electromagnetic pulse administered to the ground by the WalkTEM (transient electromagnetics (TEM)) instrument is displayed on the instrument during field data collection at a site in the Illinois River Basin.

WalkTEM (transient electromagnetics (TEM)) instrument is staged for collection of ground-based electromagnetic survey data at a site in the Illinois River Basin.

A ground-based geophysics survey using WalkTEM (transient electromagnetics (TEM)) is set up and ready to initiate at a site in the Illinois River Basin.