External reviews
Program Reviews
In 2003, the National Research Council of the National Academies published Future Challenges for the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resources Program.
View the report at http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10817
In 1996, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences published Mineral Resources and Society—A Review of the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resource Surveys Program Plan
View the report at http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9035
Topical Reviews
In 2004, the National Research Council of the National Academies published Minerals Count: The Case for Material Flows Analysis.
View the report at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10705
In 2008, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences published Managing Materials for a Twenty-first Century Military.
View the report at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12028