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Mineral Resources Program

We are the Nation’s primary source of scientific information about the full life cycle and supply chains of mineral resources. Our science is essential to responsibly managing natural resources and to procuring minerals needed to sustain and advance modern manufacturing, technology, infrastructure, and low-carbon energy production.  

News

Media Alert: Low-level airplane flights to image geology of Sioux Falls, larger tri-state region

Media Alert: Low-level airplane flights to image geology of Sioux Falls, larger tri-state region

Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology over parts of south-central New Mexico

Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology over parts of south-central New Mexico

Recently completed geophysical survey will help protect critical infrastructure from geomagnetic storms and space weather

Recently completed geophysical survey will help protect critical infrastructure from geomagnetic storms and space weather

Publications

Uranium redox and deposition transitions embedded in deep-time geochemical models and mineral chemistry networks

Uranium (U) is an important global energy resource and a redox sensitive trace element that reflects changing environmental conditions and geochemical cycling. The redox evolution of U mineral chemistry can be interrogated to understand the formation and distribution of U deposits and the redox processes involved in U geochemistry throughout Earth history. In this study, geochemical modeling using
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Elisha Kelly Moore, J. Li, Ao Zhang, Jihua Hao, Shaunna M. Morrison, Daniel Hummer, Nathan Yee

Deep magmatic staging chambers for crustal layered mafic intrusions: An example from the Bushveld Complex of southern Africa

The deep mafic magmatic staging chambers of layered mafic intrusions have been conjectured but not imaged. Their existence has long been postulated from geochemical models which require multiple magma injections from staging chambers to account for their multi-scale igneous layering and variations in sources and degrees of crustal contamination. For the Bushveld Complex of southern Africa, the wor
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Janine Cole, Carol A. Finn, Susan J. Webb

Using stochastic point pattern analysis to track regional orientations of magmatism during the transition to cenozoic extension and Rio Grande rifting, Southern Rocky Mountains

The southern Rocky Mountains in Colorado and northern New Mexico hosted intracontinental magmatism that developed during a tectonic transition from shortening (Laramide orogeny, ca. 75 to 40 Ma) through extension and rifting. We present a novel approach that uses stochastic weighted bootstrap simulations of a large set of new and historical geochronology data to better understand how regional anis
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Joshua Mark Rosera, Sean P. Gaynor, Alexey Ulianov, Urs Schaltegger

Science

What are Critical Minerals?

Critical minerals are essential to the economy and national security of the Nation and have supply chains that are vulnerable to disruption. The USGS leads the government in developing the List of Critical Minerals and provides crucial and rich information about critical mineral availability, supply chains, and economic impacts. The USGS uses a cross-sectoral and data-driven approach to developing...
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What are Critical Minerals?

Critical minerals are essential to the economy and national security of the Nation and have supply chains that are vulnerable to disruption. The USGS leads the government in developing the List of Critical Minerals and provides crucial and rich information about critical mineral availability, supply chains, and economic impacts. The USGS uses a cross-sectoral and data-driven approach to developing...
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Earth MRI Progress

Earth MRI began in 2019. Scroll down to see what we have accomplished so far.
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Earth MRI Progress

Earth MRI began in 2019. Scroll down to see what we have accomplished so far.
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Earth MRI in Action

How is Earth MRI making an impact? Here are stories of Earth MRI in action.
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Earth MRI in Action

How is Earth MRI making an impact? Here are stories of Earth MRI in action.
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