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The USGS Mineral Resources Program is converting its mineral deposit models literature to digital versions that will be presented on the World Wide Web and on CD-ROM.

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• Characteristics of Mineral Deposit Occcurrences
  1982
  Ralph L. Erickson, Compiler
  USGS Open-File Report 82-0795, 285 p.
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Mineral Deposit Models: Theory and Practice
  1985
  Steve Ludington, Paul B. Barton, Jr., and Kathleen M. Johnson
  USGS Open-File Report 85-0391, 19 p.
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Geologic and Grade-Tonnage Information on Tertiary Epithermal Precious- and Base-Metal Vein Districts Associated with Volcanic Rocks
  1986
  Dan L. Mosier, W. David Menzie, and Frank J. Kleinhampl
  USGS Bulletin 1666, 39 p.
  (Book is as page images and not searchable)
• Mineral Deposit Models
  1986
  Dennis P. Cox and Donald A. Singer, Editors
  USGS Bulletin 1693, 379 p.
• Descriptive and Grade-Tonnage Models of Volcanogenic Manganese Deposits in Oceanic Environments -- A Modification
  1988
  Dan L. Mosier and Norman J. Page
  USGS Bulletin 1811, 30 p.
• The Midcontinent of the United States -- Permissive Terrane for an Olympic Dam-Type Deposit?
  1988
  Walden P. Pratt and P.K. Sims, Editors
  USGS Bulletin 1932, 81 p.
  (Book is as page images and not searchable)
• Some Industrial Mineral Deposit Models: Descriptive Deposit Models
  1991
  Orris, G.J. and J.D. Bliss, Editors
  USGS Open-File Report 91-0011-A
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Gold-Bearing Skarns
  1991
  Ted G. Theodore, Greta J. Orris, Jane M. Hammarstrom, and James D. Bliss
  USGS Bulletin 1930, 32 p.
  (Book is as page images and not searchable)
• Developments in Mineral Deposit Modeling
  1992
  James D. Bliss, Editor
  USGS Bulletin 2004, 168 p.
  (Book is as page images and not searchable)
• Grade and Tonnage Data for Climax Mo and Creede Epithermal Vein Deposit Models
  1992
  W. David Menzie, D.A. Singer, and D.L. Mosier, Editors
  USGS Open-File Report 92-0248, 5 p.
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• The Geophysical Expression of Selected Mineral Deposit Models
  1992
  D.B. Hoover, W.D. Heran, and P.L. Hill (eds.)
  USGS Open-File Report 92-0557, 129 p.
• Grade and Tonnage Model of Porphyry Copper Deposits in British Columbia, Canada, and Alaska, U.S.A.
  1993
  David Menzie and Donald A. Singer
  USGS Open-File Report 93-0275, 8 p.
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Digital Grade and Tonnage Data for 50 Types of Mineral Deposits
  1993
  Donald A. Singer, Dan L. Mosier, and David W. Menzie
  USGS Open-File Report 93-0280
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Quantifying Favorableness for Occurrence of a Mineral Deposit Type Using Fuzzy Logic -- An Example from Arizona
  1993
  Mark E. Gettings and Mark W. Bultman
  USGS Open-File Report 93-0392, 23 p.
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Remote Sensing and Airborne Geophysics in the Assessment of Natural Aggregate Resources
  1994
  D.H. Knepper, W.H. Langer, and S.H. Miller
  USGS Open-File Report 94-0158, p.
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Codicil to The Geophysical Expression of Selected Mineral Deposit Models
  1994
  W.D. Heran (ed.)
  USGS Open-File Report 94-0174, 33 p.
• Mineral Deposit Modeling Using Components for Complex Mineral Deposits: Mixed Base- and Prescious-Metal Veins of the Idaho Batholith, Idaho
  1994
  James D. Bliss
  USGS Open-File Report 94-0690, 53 p.
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Mineral Descriptive and Grade-Tonnage Models of Archean Low-Sulfide Gold-Quartz Veins and a Revised Grade-Tonnage Model of Homestake Gold
  1994
  T.L. Klein and W.C. Day
  USGS Open-File Report 94-0250, 26 p.
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Preliminary Compilation of Descriptive Geoenvironmental Mineral Deposit Models
  1995
  Edward A. du Bray and Douglas B. Stoeser, editors
  USGS Open-File Report 95-831, 272 p.
• Geologic Characterization of Natural Aggregate - A Field Geologist's Guide to Natural Aggregate Resource Assessment
  1995
  W.H. Langer and D.H. Knepper, Jr.
  USGS Open-File Report 95-0582, 37 p.
  (Report is as page images and not searchable)
• Uranium Provinces of North America--Their Definition, Distribution, and Models
  1996
  Warren I. Finch
  USGS Bulletin 2141, 24 p.
  (A product of the Central Region Energy Program)
• An Introduction to Sand and Gravel Deposit Models, Front Range Urban Corridor (PDF, 108 K)
  1997
  David A. Lindsey
  USGS Open-File Report 97-0081, 6 p.
• Slide Show on Gravel Deposit Models and Measuring Aggregate Quality, Front Range Urban Corridor, Colorado
  1998
  David A. Lindsey and William H. Langer
  USGS Open-File Report 98-0332

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