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Mineral resources
Natural occurrences of useful inorganic elements or compounds.
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Metallic ores (9 items)
Nonmetallic mineral resources (6 items)
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Minerals information [New Window]
Statistics and information on worldwide supply, demand, and flow of minerals and materials essential to the U.S. economy, national security, and protection of the environment. Links to publications, recycling, and historical statistics.
Minerals publications and data products [New Window]
Site for publications on minerals resources with links to those online. Includes reports in series, CD-ROMS, spatial data, statistics and commodity information, and mineral resources publications of regional Mineral Resources Teams.
State minerals statistics and information [New Window]
Links to mineral statistics from annual Mineral Yearbooks for each state in the United States and Puerto Rico, with contacts for further information, and means to apply for e-mail subscription service for regular updates.
PDF Limestone; a crucial and versatile industrial mineral commodity [New Window]
Usefulness of limestone, problems encountered in finding and exploiting suitable limestone resources
Asbestos: geology, mineralogy, mining, and uses [New Window]
Report on asbestos, six types of mineral fibers belonging to two mineral groups, serpentines and amphiboles,with fiber morphology, crystal structure, analytical methods, properties, mining, milling, uses, and safety factors.(PDF file,28 pp.,4.5 MB)
Databases and simplified geology for mineralized areas, claims, mines, and prospects in Wyoming. [New Window]
This data release contains mineral resource and geology data for metallic and nonmetallic mineral sites in Wyoming. Data is provided in both spreadsheet format (Microsoft Excel) and in GIS ArcView and MapInfo. Text available in PDF format.
Deserts, geology and resources [New Window]
Online edition of booklet describing desert geology and mineral resources.
Environmental processes that affect mineral deposits in the Eastern United States [New Window]
Studies in Eastern United States on massive sulfide deposits in Maine, Vermont, Great Smoky Mountains, and Virginia to assess potential environmental impacts.
Marine aggregate resources and processes [New Window]
Regional studies mapping the seafloor sedimentary character and assessing marine sand and gravel resources around the United States, to inform beach nourishment and coastal restoration, benthic habitat and sediment transport studies
Mineral deposit models [New Window]
Publications by the USGS on mineral deposit models converted to digital files that can be downloaded. Some are *.pdf files requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and download text
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