Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center

Compile and analyze mineral resource data and conduct research on the genesis and geologic controls on the distribution of mineral resources in the Earth's crust.

Current Projects

• Basement Tectonic Framework of the U.S.: Role of Cratonization of Juvenile Crust and Structural Modification in Forming Metallogenic Provinces
• Formation of Sedex and Sediment-hosted Manganese, Iron, and Phosphate, and Rare Earth Element Deposits; Interplay Between Exhalative Mineralization, Ocean Chemistry, Marine Redox Cycles, and Planetary Evolution
• New Mineral Deposit Models for Gold, Phosophate Rare Earth Elements, and Placer Rare Earth Element-Titanium Resources
• Non-metallic Industrial Mineral Resources of the U.S.

Completed Projects

• Headwaters Province, Idaho and Montana: Earth Science Studies in Support of Public Policy Development and Land Stewardship
• Integrated Geoscience Studies of Big Bend National Park
• Integrated Geoscience Studies of the Greater Yellowstone Area Project
• Lifecycles of Mississippi Valley Type Deposits
• Mancos Shale Landscapes: Science and Management of Black Shale Terrains
• Metallogeny of the Great Basin: crustal evolution, fluid flow, and ore deposits
• Minerals Information and Technology for Infrastructure Resource Assessment
  (Colorado Front Range Infrastructure Resources Project)
• Metallogenic Evolution of Mesoproterozoic Sedimentary Rocks in Idaho and Montana
• Metals in Basinal Brines and Petroleum
• Ozarks Mineral Deposits Workgroup Website
• Regional Fluid Flow and Basin Modeling in Northern Alaska
• Secular Trends in Ore-Forming Processes through Earth History
• Sustainable Development of Industrial Minerals
• Syngenetic Massive Sulfide Deposits in Alaska

Mineral Resources Program
Eastern Central Western Alaska Minerals Information Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Spatial Data

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