Minerals Publications and Data Products

Online Publications

Analytical Standards

• Geochemical Reference Materials

Bulletins

• Mineral Deposit Models (PDF)
  B-1693
• The Sedimentary Carbonate-Hosted Giant Bayan Obo REE-Fe-Nb Ore Deposit of Inner Mongolia, China: A Cornerstone Example for Giant Polymetallic Ore Deposits of Hydrothermal Origin
  B-2143

Circulars

• Chain of Custody--Recommendations for Acceptance and Analysis of Evidentiary Geochemical Samples
  C-1138
• Aggregates from Natural and Recycled Sources: Economic Assessments for Construction Applications--A Materials Flow Analysis
  C-1176
• Crushed Cement Concrete Substitution for Construction Aggregates--A Materials Flow Analysis
  C-1177
• Materials and Energy Flows in the Earth Science Century:  Summary of a Workshop Held by the USGS in November 1998
  C-1194
• Gold Recycling in the United States in 1998
  C-1196-A
• Platinum Recycling in the United States in 1998
  C-1196-B
• Chromium Recycling in the United States in 1998
  C-1196-C
• Zinc Recycling in the United States in 1998
  C-1196-D
• Iron and Steel Recycling in the United States in 1998
  C-1196-G
• Columbium (Niobium) Recycling in the United States in 1998
  C-1196-I
• Tantalum Recycling in the United States in 1998
  C-1196-J
• Tin Recycling in the United States in 1998
  C-1196-K
• Molybdenum Recycling in the United States in 1998
  C-1196-L
• The Materials Flow of Mercury in the Economies of the United States and the World
  C-1197

Digital Data Series

• Geology and Resource Assessment of the Venezuelan Guayana Shield at 1:500,000 Scale
  DDS-46
• Geology and Resource Assessment of Costa Rica at 1:500,000 Scale
  DDS-19
• Geology of the Conterminous United States at 1:2,500,000 Scale -- A Digital Representation of the 1974 P.B. King and H.M. Beikman Map
  DDS-11

Fact Sheets

• Environmental Geochemistry of Mercury Mines in Alaska
  FS-072-94

• Potential-Field Geophysical Software for the PC
  FS-076-95
• Investigations of Hazardous Waste Sites
  FS-077-95
• Geophysical Data Grids for the Conterminous United States
  FS-078-95
• Natural Environmental Effects of Silver-lead-zinc Deposits in the Brooks Range, Alaska
  FS-092-95
• Magnetic Surveys for Locating Abandoned Wells
  FS-163-95
• Western United States Mine-Dump Data Retrievals (PDF)
  FS-184-95
• Introduction to Potential Fields: Magnetics (PDF)
  FS-236-95
• Compiling Magnetic Databases (PDF)
  FS-237-95
• Potential-Field Computer Programs, Databases, and Maps (PDF)
  FS-238-95
• Introduction to Potential Fields: Gravity (PDF)
  FS-239-95

• Mined-Land Reclamation in the Thar Desert, India-INDO-U.S. Technology Exchange
  FS-015-97
• Natural Aggregates--Foundation of America's Future (PDF)
  FS-144-97
• Studies of Suction Dredge Gold-Placer Mining Operations Along the Fortymile River, Eastern Alaska 100 (PDF)
  FS-154-97
• Placer Gold Mining in Alaska - Cooperative Studies on the Effect of Suction Dredge Operations on the Fortymile River (PDF)
  FS-155-97

• USGS Mineral Resources Program: A National Perspective
  FS-008-98
• USGS Mineral Resources Program: International Activities
  FS-011-98
• Materials Flow and Sustainability
  FS-068-98 (PDF)

• Fertilizers -- Sustaining Global Food Supplies
  FS-155-99
• Recycled Aggregates -- Profitable Resource Conservation
  FS-181-99

• Industrial Minerals of the United States: U.S. Talc—Baby Powder and Much More
  FS-065-00
• Three Western-Mineral-Resources Archives
  FS-099-00
• Mineral-Resource Databases
  FS-122-00, (Supersedes R97508)

• Wollastonite -- A Versatile Industrial Mineral
  FS-002-01
• Some Facts About Asbestos
  FS-012-01
• Obsolete Computers, 'Gold Mine,' or High-Tech Trash? Resource Recovery from Recycling
  FS-060-01

• Rare Earth Elements—Critical Resources for High Technology
  FS-087-02

General Interest

• Central Appalachian Rock Band
• Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms
• Gemstones Guidebook
• Geologic Story of the Ocoee River
• Geology of the Ocoee Whitewater Center, Cherokee National Forest
• Glimpses of the Ice Age from I-81
• USGS Mine Drainage Interest Group
• Natural Aggregate - A Primer
• Southern Appalachian Rock Band
• Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry

Geologic Investigations Series

• Geologic Maps of Western and Northern Parts of Gallatin National Forest, South Central Montana
  I-2584

Information Handouts

• Environmental Characteristics of Clays and Clay Mineral Deposits
• Environmental Processes that Affect Mineral Deposits in the Eastern United States
• Mineral Resource Evaluation of the Northeastern United States (Region 9)
• Mineral-Resource and Related Activities in the Upper Midwest
• Minerals Information Team
• National Mineral-Resource Assessment: The 1996 Estimate of Undiscovered Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc Remaining in the United States
• Offshore Industrial Mineral Studies Using a Marine Induced-Polarization Streamer System
• Potential for New Nickel-Copper Sulfide Deposits in the Lake Superior Region
• Radiogenic Isotopes and the Eastern Mineral Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
• Remote Sensing in the USGS Mineral Resource Surveys Program in the Eastern United States
• Revising U.S. Geological Survey Mineral-Resource Assessment Methods
• Stable Isotopes and Mineral Resource Investigations in the United States

Miscellaneous Investigations Series

• Magnetic and Gravity Anomaly Maps of West Virginia
  I-2364-H

Open-File Reports

• Geologic Map of the Roswell, New Mexico, Resource Area
  OF-92-328
• Geologic Map of Colorado
  OF-92-507
• The Geophysical Expression of Selected Mineral Deposit Models
  OF-92-557

• The U. S. Geological Survey, Digital Spectral Library: Version 1: 0.2 to 3.0 microns
  OF-93-592

• Codicil to The Geophysical Expression of Selected Mineral Deposit Models
  OF-94-174
• Geologic Map of Wyoming
  OF-94-425
• Active, Inactive, and Abandoned Mine Information for Colorado with selected geochemical data
  OF-94-579

• Digital Geologic Map of the Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia, South America
  OF-95-494
• The Summitville Mine and Its Downstream Effects
  OF-95-023
• Bibliography of Geophysical Computer Programs, Data Bases, and Maps 1971-1994.
  OF-95-077
• Active, Inactive, and Abandoned Mine Information for Montana with selected
  geochemical data
  OF-95-229
• Active, Inactive, and Abandoned Mine Information for New Mexico with selected geochemical data
  OF-95-528
• Active, Inactive, and Abandoned Mine Information for Arizona with selected
  geochemical data
  OF-95-578
• Active, Inactive, and Abandoned Mine Information for Idaho with selected geochemical data
  OF-95-644
• Digital map of major bedrock lithologic units for the Pacific Northwest: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  OF-95-680
• Digital mineral resource maps of phosphate and natural aggregate for the Pacific Northwest: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  OF-95-681
• Assessment of undiscovered mineral resources in the Pacific Northwest: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  OF-95-682
• Digital representation of the Washington state geologic map: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  OF-95-684
• Digital National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) for the Pacific Northwest: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  OF-95-686
• Status and metal content of significant metallic mineral deposits in the Pacific Northwest: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  OF-95-688
• Digital maps of low- to moderate-temperature geothermal springs and wells in the Pacific Northwest: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  OF-95-689
• Digital representation of the Idaho state geologic map: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  OF-95-690
• Geologic map of Montana
  OF-95-691
• Online Files for Acid Deposition Sensitivity Map
  OF-95-810
• Preliminary Compilation of Descriptive Geoenvironmental Mineral Deposit Models
  OF-95-831

• An Analysis of Nevada's Metal-Bearing Mineral Resources
  OF-96-002
• Active, Inactive, and Abandoned Mine Information for California with selected
  geochemical data
  OF-96-004
• The Role of Mineral Resource Assessments in Ecological Stewardship
  OF-96-063
• Data Base for Undiscovered Deposits of Base and Precious Metals
  OF-96-096
• Digital geologic map of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho and Montana
  OF-96-299
• Significant Metalliferous and Selected Non-Metalliferous Lode Deposits and Placer Districts for the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera
  OF-96-513-B
• National Overview of Abandoned Mine Land Sites Utilizing the Minerals Availability System (MAS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology
  OF-96-549
• Active, Inactive, and Abandoned Mine Information for Utah with selected geochemical data
  OF-96-653
• Sodium Carbonate Resources of the Green River Formation
  OF-96-729

• Geologic Map of New Mexico
  OF-97-052
• An introduction to sand and gravel deposit models, Front Range Urban Corridor (PDF)
  OF-97-081
  
• Fifteen 1 °X 2 °Digital Geologic Maps of the Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia
  OF-97-174
• Field measures of gravel quality in the South Platte River north of Denver, Colorado:
  A pilot study (PDF)
  OF-97-451
• Digital geologic map and mineral deposits of the Lake Superior region
  OF-97-455
• Alaska Aeromagnetic Maps and Data
  OF-97-520
• National Geochemical Database -- Reformatted Data from the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) Program
  OF-97-492
• Potential-Field Geophysical Software for the PC, version 2.2
  OF-97-725

• Summary Terrane, Mineral Deposit, and Metallogenic Belt Maps for the Russian Far East, Alaska, and Canadian Cordillera
  OF-98-136
• Slide Show on Gravel Deposit Models and Measuring Aggregate Quality, Front Range Urban Corridor, Colorado
  OF-98-332
• Montana Aeromagnetic and Gravity Maps and Data
  OF-98-333

• Color Shaded Relief Map of the Conterminous United States
  OF-99-011
• Geologic Maps and Block Diagrams of the Barite Hill Gold-Silver Deposit and Vicinity, South Carolina and Georgia
  OF 99-148-A
• Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Keweenaw Peninsula and Vicinity, Michigan
  OF-99-149
• Preliminary Publications Book 1 from Project on Mineral Resources, Metallogenesis, and Tectonics of Northeast Asia
  OF-99-165
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Compilation of Geophysical, Geologic, and Tectonic Data for the Circum-North Pacific
  OF-99-422
• Preliminary Digital Geologic Map of the Penokean (Early Proterozoic) Continental Margin in Northern Michigan and Wisconsin
  OF-99-547

• Minerals in Our Environment
  OF-00-144
• Preliminary Report on Aggregate Use and Permitting Along the Colorado Front Range
  OF-00-258
• Characteristics of Water-Well Yields in the Blue Ridge of Loudoun County, Virginia
  OF-00-280
• ESRI ArcView Extension: Point Stat Calc
  OF-00-302
• A Note on Scrap in the 1992 U.S. Input-Output Tables
  OF-00-313
• A Ground Electromagnetic Survey Used to Map Sulfides and Acid Sulfate Ground Waters at the Abandoned Cabin Branch Mine, Prince William Forest Park, Northern Virginia Gold-Pyrite Belt
  OF-00-360
• 20th Century U.S. Mineral Prices Decline in Constant Dollars
  OF-00-389
• A Microsoft Windows Version of the MARK3 Monte Carlo Resource Simulator
  OF-00-415
• Analytical Results and Sample Locations of Reanalyzed NURE Stream-Sediment and Soil Samples for the Humboldt River Basin Mineral-Environmental Assessment, Northern Nevada
  OF-00-421

• Historical Statistics for Mineral Commodities in the United States
  OF-01-006
• Geophysical Signatures Used to Constrain Geologic Mapping:  The Search for VMS Deposits in Southeast Alaska
  OF-01-044
• Georgia Aeromagnetic and Gravity Maps and Data:  A Web Site for Distribution of Data
  OF-01-106
• Aerial Gamma-Ray Surveys in Alaska
  OF-01-128
• Magnesium Recycling in the United States in 1998
  OF-01-166
• Lead Recycling in the United States in 1998
  OF-01-170
• Technological Advancement -- A Factor in Increasing Resource Use
  OF-01-197
• Manganese Recycling in the United States in 1998
  OF-01-304

• Case Study of the Environmental Signature of a Recently Abandoned, Carbonate-hosted Replacement Deposit: The Clayton Mine, Idaho
  OF-02-010
• San Antonio, Texas Audio-magnetotelluric Data: A Web Site for Distribution of Data
  OF-02-118
• Asbestos
  OF-02-149
• Mineral Commodity Profiles: Cadmium
  OF-02-238
• Materials Flow of Sulfur
  OF-02-298
• Cobalt Recycling in the United States in 1998
  OF-02-299
• Sociocultural and Institutional Drivers and Constraints to Mineral Supply
  OF-02-333
• Economic Drivers of Mineral Supply
  OF-02-335
• Sociocultural Dimensions of Supply and Demand for Natural Aggregate - Examples from the Mid-Atlantic Region, United States
  OF-02-350
• Policy -- A Factor Shaping Minerals Supply and Demand
  OF-02-418
• Wisconsin Aeromagnetic and Gravity Maps and Data: A Web Site for Distribution of Data
  OF-02-493

• Mineral Commodity Profiles: Selenium
  OF-03-018
• Mineral Commodity Profiles: Antimony
  OF-03-019
• Silver Recycling in the United States in 2000
  OF-03-033
• Cadmium Recycling in the United States in 2000
  OF-03-049
• Worldwide Asbestos Supply and Consumption Trends from 1900 to 2000
  OF-03-083
• Beryllium Recycling in the United States in 2000
  OF-03-282

• Mineral Commodity Profiles: Nitrogen
  OF-2004-1290
• Lime Kiln Dust as a Potential Raw Material in Portland Cement Manufacturing
  OF-2004-1336
• Lead Isotopic Compositions of Common Arsenical Pesticides Used in New England
  OF 2004-1342

Poster Sessions

• Estimated Gravel Resources of the Soucook River Valley, Loudon, New Hampshire

Statistical Information Periodicals

• Metal Industry Indicators
• Mineral Commodity Summaries
• Mineral Industry Surveys
• Minerals Yearbook
• Nonmetallic Mineral Products Industry Indexes

Presentations

• Industrial Minerals Activities (PDF)

CD-ROM

Digital Data Series

• Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) Data Base
  DDS-52
• Geology and Resource Assessment of the Venezuelan Guayana Shield at 1:500,000 Scale
  DDS-46
• Geology and Resource Assessment of Costa Rica at 1:500,000 Scale
  DDS-19
• Geology of the Conterminous United States at 1:2,500,000 Scale -- A Digital Representation of the 1974 P.B. King and H.M. Beikman Map
  DDS-11

Other

• Minerals and Materials Information CD-ROM

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