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Mineral Resource of the Month

The "Mineral Resource of the Month" column, featuring the work of USGS mineral commodity specialists, first appeared in the American Geological Institute’s (AGI) Geotimes in August 2002. The articles, as they originally appeared in Geotimes, are now available with permission of AGI. The column “Mineral Resource of the Month” now appears in the new AGI magazine Earth at http://www.earthmagazine.org/. For more information about these and other mineral commodities, visit the USGS Commodity Statistics and Information Web site.

A - B | C - D | E - F | G - H | I - J | K- L | M - N | O - P | Q - R | S - T | U - V | W - X | Y - Z


Commodity
A - B
Thumbnail graphic with link to larger graphic and aggregates article Aggregates
Thumbnail photo of aluminum and link to article Aluminum
Thumbnail photo and link to arsenic article Arsenic
Thumbnail photo and link to Barite article Barite
Thumbnail photo and link to beryllium article Beryllium
Thumbnail and link to bismuth article Bismuth
Thumbnail photo and link to boron article Boron
C - D
Thumbnail photo and link to cadmium article Cadmium
Thumbnail photo and link to cement article Cement
Thumbnail photo and link to chromium article Chromium
Thumbnail photo and link to clays article Clays
Thumbnail photo and link to cobalt article Cobalt
Thumbnail photo and link to copper article Copper
Thumbnail photo and link to diamond article Diamond
Thumbnail photo and link to diatomite article Diatomite
Thumbnail photo and link to dinension stone article Dimension Stone
E - F
Thumbnail photo and link to feldspar article Feldspar
Thumbnail photo and link to fluorspar article Fluorspar
G - H
Thumbnail photo and link to gallium article Gallium
Thumbnail photo and link to garnet article Garnet
Thumbnail photo and link to gemstones article Gemstones
Thumbnail photo and link to germanium article Germanium
Thumbnail photo and link to gypsum article Gypsum
I - J
Thumbnail photo and link to indium article Indium
K - L
Thumbnail graphic and link to kyanite article Kyanite
Thumbnail graphic and link to lead article Lead
Thumbnail photo and link to lithium article Lithium
M - N
Thumbnail graphic and link to magnesium article Magnesium
Thumbnail graphic and link to manganese article Manganese
Thumbnail photo and link to mercury article Mercury
Thumbnail photo and link to mica article Mica
Thumbnail photo and link to molybdenum article Molybdenum
Thumbnail photo and link to nickel article Nickel
Thumbnail photo and link to niobium article Niobium (Columbium)
O - P
Thumbnail photo and link to peat article Peat
Thumbnail photo and link to perlite article Perlite
Thumbnail photo and link to phosphate rock article Phosphate Rock
Thumbnail photo and link to platinum-group metals article Platinum-Group Metals
Thumbnail photo and link to potash article Potash
Q - R
Thumbnail photo and link to rare earths article Rare Earths
Thumbnail photo and link to rhenium article Rhenium
S - T
Thumbnail photo and link to industrial sand and gravel article Sand and Gravel, Industrial
Thumbnail photo and link to selenium article Selenium
Thumbnail photo and link to silicon article Silicon
Thumbnail photo and link to silver article Silver
Thumbnail photo and link to soda ash article Soda Ash
Thumbnail photo and link to steel article Steel
Thumbnail photo and link to strontium article Strontium
Thumbnail photo and link to sulfur article Sulfur
Thumbnail photo and link to talc article Talc
Thumbnail photo and link to tantalum article Tantalum
Thumbnail photo and link to tellurium article Tellurium
  Thallium
Thumbnail photo and link to tin article Tin
Thumbnail and link to titanium article Titanium
Thumbnail photo and link to tungsten article Tungsten
U - V
Thumbnail photo and link to vanadium article Vanadium
Thumbnail photo and link to vermiculite article Vermiculite
W - X
Thumbnail photo and link to wollastonite article Wollastonite
Y - Z
Thumbnail photo and link to zeolites article Zeolites
Thumbnail photo and link to zinc article Zinc
Thumbnail photo and link to zirconium and hafnium article Zirconium and Hafnium

 

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