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USGS steps towards supporting strategic exploration and recovery of critical minerals in mine wastes
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Image: Abandoned Mine Shaft

Critical Minerals in Mine Wastes

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Tailings Pile Sample Collection

Mapping, Mine Wastes and More Critical Minerals Science:

Geonarrative
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Geonarrative: the National Mine Waste Inventory

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About the DOI Mine Waste Mapping Plan

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Estimating the hypothetical endowment of critical minerals and other commodities in porphyry copper mine waste in the Four Corners states, USA

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Antimony in mine wastes: Geochemistry, mineralogy, microbiology

Project
Hyperspectral Imaging to Delineate Critical Minerals Project

New Applications of Hyperspectral Imaging to Delineate Critical Minerals Concentrated in Regolith and Mine Waste Materials

Infographics
Infographic showing steps in mining and the mine wastes produced from them

How mine waste is made
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Determination and prediction of micro scale rare earth element geochemical associations in mine drainage treatment wastes

Data Release
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Geochemical Data for Coal Wastes from Historic Anthracite Coal Mining in Pennsylvania, 2024

Data Release
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Geochemical Data for Coal Wastes from Bituminous Coal Mining in Pennsylvania, 2022

Project
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Hyperspectral Imaging of Mineral Resources from New and Old Origins: Minerals for the Nation’s Economy and Utilization of Legacy Mine Lands

National News Release
Image: Discarded Drill Cores from the Blackbird Cobalt-Copper Mine

USGS makes $5 million available from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for mine waste research

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Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging of Critical Mineral Resources

State News Release
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USGS to invest $1.1 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to district-scale hyperspectral survey of Arizona, New Mexico

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microscopic gold and lead particles

Sources, Forms, Extractability of Metals in Non-Ore Deposit Sources

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Trace element composition and molecular-scale speciation characterization of sphalerite from Central and East Tennessee mining districts, Red Dog mining district (AK), and Metaline mining district (WA)

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A novel non-destructive workflow for examining germanium and co-substituents in ZnS

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Earth MRI First Five Years Accomplishments
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