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Alaska Mineral Resources Projects

Current Projects in Alaska

• Alaska Minerals Outreach
• Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF)
• Alaska Technical Data Unit (ATDU) - Field Records Archive
• Assessment Techniques for Concealed Mineral Resources
• Federal Lands in Alaska - Geologic Studies
• National Surveys and Analysis - Alaska and Hawaii
• Pathways of Metal Transfer from Mineralized Sources to Bio-receptors
• Regional Fluid Flow and Basin Modeling in Northern Alaska
• Regional Geologic, Geochemical, Geophysical, and Mineral Deposit Data for Economic Development in Alaska in the 21st Century
• Tintina Metallogenic Province Integrated Studies on Geologic Framework, Mineral Resources, and Environmental Signatures
• Updated National Mineral Resource Assessment - Planning Phase
• Western Region Databases and Information Analysis, Alaska (GIS)

Completed Projects

• Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program II
• Anchorage Urban Region Aeromagnetics Project
• Application of Secular Trends and Continent-Scale Geophysics to Mineral Resource Assessment
• Backgrounds and Baselines
• Early Tertiary Slab Window in Alaska and its Resource Implications
• Evaluation of the Seasonal Flux of Atmospherically Transported Elements within the Yukon Basin NASQAN Study Area
• Geochemical Landscapes of Alaska
• Geoenvironmental Impacts of Mercury and Arsenic
• Large Mafic Igneous Province (LIP) in Central Alaska--Modeling of the Magmatic Feeder System to the Nikolai LIP
• Minerals Data and Information Rescue in Alaska (MDIRA)
• Mineral Potential for Southeastern Alaska
• Pathways of Metal Transfer from Mineralized Sources to Bio-receptors
• Secular Trends in Ore-forming Processes through Earth History
• Syngenetic Massive Sulfide Deposits in Alaska
• Talkeetna Mountains Transect - Tectonics and Metallogenesis of South-Central Alaska