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Current Projects - Outside-funded research - Completed Projects

Current Projects

• Emerging Environmental Geochemical Challenges for Future Mining
• Environmental Geochemistry to Evaluate Risks Associated with Past and Future
  Mining in the Lake Superior Region
• Integration of remote-sensing alteration mapping and regional geochemistry into new
  geospatial-statistical, quantitative mineral resource methods
• Setting and Origin of Iron Oxide-Copper-Cobalt-Gold-Rare Earth Element Deposits of Southeast Missouri
• Synthesis, Analysis, and Applications of the Global Copper Assessment
• Unconventional Resources of Rare Elements: The Bearing of Source and Process on the Genesis of Residual Deposits
• United States Critical Mineral Resources in a Global Context
• Mineral Resource Online Data Catalog (See data site mrdata.usgs.gov)
• Minerals at Risk and for Emerging Technologies
• Radiogenic and Stable Isotope Methods
• Midwest Mining Initiative
• Eastern Mineral and Environmental Resources Outreach
• Eastern Mineral and Environmental Resources Computer and GIS Support

Outside-funded projects

• Remote Spectral Characterization of Terrestrial Life Forming Environments for Planetary Exploration
• Measurement of Mercury Mobilization and Accumulation in Fish in Response to Prescribed Fire in a Boreal Forest Ecosystem

Completed Projects from past fiscal years

• Critical Mineral Resources for the 21st Century
• Quantitative Global Mineral-Resource Assessments
• Updated National Mineral Resource Assessment - Planning Phase
• Development of Mineral Environmental Assessment Methodologies
• Assessment Techniques for Concealed Mineral Resources
• Mineral Occurrence Database
• Geologic Controls on Contaminants in Crystalline Bedrock Aquifer Systems
• Meteorite Research
• Tintina Metallogenic Province - Integrated Studies on Geologic Framework, Mineral Resources, and Environmental Signatures
• Industrial Mineral Studies in the Eastern US
• Mineral Surveys and Analyses, Eastern US
• Advanced Spaceborne Thermal and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
• Environmental Behavior of Mineral Deposits
• Orchard Arsenic and Changing Land Use in the Great Valley, Virginia and West Virginia
• Geochemical Backgrounds and Baselines -- Northern Wisconsin
• Tracers of Surficial Processes Affecting Mineral Deposits in Humid Environments
• Long-term environmental effects of Roman mining, Plasenzuela silver-lead district, Extremadura, Spain (updated report pending)