The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has released the first World Minerals Outlook assessing global production capacity for seven critical minerals and helium over the next five years. The ...

The protest departures of two top U.S. Geological Survey officials put a spotlight on how the Interior Department employs scientific data and on the sometimes strained relations between political ...

This study will examine the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resources Program (MRP) science portfolio to address how it needs to evolve to meet current and future U.S. mineral resources data and ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the federal, science-based agency that assesses the mineral resources of the United States and tracks production, use and trade data of 100 minerals, is pursuing a ...

Professor Emeritus Carol Frost, of the University of Wyoming’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, will co-chair a consensus study led by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine ...

As companies flock to Africa to secure minerals for the energy transition, unreliable and century-old mapping risks stifling ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers had urged the agency to put copper on its list of critical minerals. But USGS Director David Applegate said that is not warranted right now. The U.S. Geological Survey ...

A photo of a NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft with the AVIRIS and HyTES instruments installed. Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will map portions of the southwest United States ...

NV5 secures $10 million in contracts from USGS for geospatial services supporting critical mineral exploration in the U.S. NV5 has been awarded $10 million in contracts by the U.S. Geological Survey ...

The United States Geological Survey has released a new list of 50 mineral commodities critical to the U.S. economy and national security after an extensive multi-agency assessment. The 2022 list of ...