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The Mineral Resources Program External Research Program final reports can be accessed at http://minerals.usgs.gov/mrerp/reports.html .

Bibliographies of Publications by the USGS Eastern Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center, 1996 - 1997 / 1998 - 1999 / 2000 - 2001 / 2002 - 2003 / 2004 - 2005 / 2006 - 2007 / 2008 - 2009 / 2010- 2011 / 2012

On-line publications: Selected publications || Informal publications || General interest publications || Other publications of interest

Selected publications

US

• On-line Mineral Databases: http://mrdata.usgs.gov
• Assessment of Undiscovered Deposits of Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 02-198, a recompilation of USGS Open File Report 96-96* and Circular 1178, recompiled by Paul Schruben. Online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-198/. Plans to update the National Assessment: see http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/projects/nat_assess_planning/
• Geology of the Conterminous United States at 1:2,500,000 Scale -- A Digital Representation of the 1974 P.B. King and H.M. Beikman Map
• Geologic maps of U.S. States: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/geology/state/
• Geophysical (Aeromagnetic and Gravity) maps for U.S. States: http://crustal.usgs.gov/geophysics/state.html

Eastern U.S.

• The Southern Appalachians: A Changing World: U.S. Geological Survey video and Teacher's Guide, DVD or VHS format, available for purchase at http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/so_app/
• Geology of the Southern Appalachian Mountains: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2830, online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2830/

Upper Midwest

• Digital geologic map and mineral deposits of the Lake Superior region
• Preliminary Digital Geologic Map of the Early Proterozoic Continental Margin, Northern Michigan and Wisconsin
• Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Keweenaw Peninsula and Vicinity, Michigan
• An Environmental History of the 19th Century Marquette Iron Range
• Digital Bedrock Geologic Map of the Ashland and Northern Part of the Ironwood 30'x60' Quadrangles, Wisconsin and Michigan
• The Gogebic Iron Range -- A Sample of the Northern Margin of the Penokean Fold and Thrust Belt: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1730, 2007, 44 p.

Central and Western U.S., and Alaska

see web sites for

• Central Mineral Resources Team (http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/),
• Crustal Imaging and Characterization Team (http://crustal.usgs.gov/)
• Western Mineral Resources Team (http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/),
• Alaska Mineral Resources Team (http://minerals.usgs.gov/alaska/).

International

• On-line Mineral Databases
• Mineral Resource Assessments of Afghanistan, at http://afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/minerals
• Global Mineral Resource Assessment project, at http://minerals.usgs.gov/global/
• Geology and Resource Assessment of Costa Rica at 1:500,000 Scale
• Geology and Resource Assessment of the Venezuelan Guayana Shield at 1:500,000 Scale
• The Sedimentary Carbonate-Hosted Giant Bayan Obo Rare-Earth Elements-Fe-Nb Ore Deposit of Inner Mongolia, China

Other

• The Role of Mineral Resource Assessments in Ecological Stewardship

Informal publications

• Mineral Resource Data Bases
• Environmental Characteristics of Clays and Clay Mineral Deposits
• Environmental Processes that Affect Mineral Deposits in the Eastern United States
• National Mineral-Resource Assessment: 1996 Estimate of Undiscovered Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc Remaining in the U.S.
• Potential for New Nickel-Copper Sulfide Deposits in the Lake Superior Region
• Stable Isotopes and Mineral Resource Investigations in the US
• Radiogenic Isotopes and the Eastern Mineral Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
• Remote Sensing in the USGS Mineral Resource Surveys Program in the Eastern United States
• Revising U.S. Geological Survey Mineral-Resource Assessment Methods
• Offshore Industrial Mineral Studies Using a Marine Induced-Polarization Streamer System

General interest publications

• The Geologic Story of the Ocoee River - Cherokee National Forest of southeastern Tennessee
• Copper - A Metal for the Ages: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009-3031, 2009, by Jeff Doebrich and Linda Masonic, 4 p.

• Molybdenum-A Key Component of Metal Alloys: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet  2009-3106, 2010, by S.J. Kropschot, 4 p.

• Frank, Dave, Galloway, John, and Assmus, Ken, 2005, The life cycle of a mineral deposit--A teacher's guide for hands-on mineral education activities: U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product 17 [available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/17/ ].
• Geology of the Ocoee Whitewater Center, Cherokee National Forest
• Volcanic Fire and Glacial Ice: Geologic Wonders of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests: No. 4 in a series, by US Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Forest Service, Southern Region), 2007
• Glimpses of the Ice Age from I-81 - remnants of the Ice Age on the mountains between Strasburg and Harrisonburg, Virginia
• The Mountain That Moved - the largest known landslides in eastern North America and among the largest in the world, Montgomery and Craig Counties, Virginia
• A Central Appalachian Rock Band - A rock band that helps explain about the changing earth -- but not the kind of rock band you might expect. These are the rocks that make up the Central Appalachian Mountains.
• A Southern Appalachian Rock Band - This rock band is composed of the rocks that make up the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Other publications of interest

• Collecting Rocks
• Gold
• Prospecting for Gold in the United States
• An Overview of Production of Specific U.S. Gemstones

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