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Media Alert: Low-level airplane flights to scan geology over parts of four Midwestern states
RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey plans low-level airplane flights over a broad region in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin to image...
Interior Department releases final 2025 List of Critical Minerals
Editor’s note: Posted November 14 following the end of the lapse in appropriations.
The Department of the Interior, through the U.S. Geological Survey...
Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology over eastern Maine
RESTON, Va. — Low-level flights begin as soon as early November over eastern Maine from the Down East coast up into northern Aroostook County to image...
Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology over portions of the Blue Mountains in northeastern Oregon and western Idaho
RESTON, Va. — Low-level helicopter flights begin in early October over portions of the Blue Mountains and adjacent areas in northeastern Oregon and...
Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology, map critical minerals over parts of Central and Eastern Nevada
RESTON, Va. — Low-level Helicopter flights are planned over a broad region in Nevada to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The...
USGS supports 13 states in joint work on critical minerals in mine waste
RESTON, Va. -- The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded nearly $3 million in cooperative agreements to state geological surveys to study critical...
CT, MA aerial survey maps geology, pyrrhotite hazard
RESTON, Va.— An ongoing geologic survey of the Connecticut River Valley is expected to shed light on pyrrhotite, the mineral implicated in weakening...
Low-level helicopter flights to image geology over NE Idaho and NW Montana
RESTON, Va. — Low-level helicopter flights begin as soon as early September over the greater “Silver Valley” mineral district in Northeastern Idaho...
Department of the Interior releases draft 2025 List of Critical Minerals
The Department of the Interior, through the U.S. Geological Survey, has released the draft 2025 List of Critical Minerals and a report that outlines a...
Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology over Western Georgia
RESTON, Va. – The USGS will conduct low-level airplane flights beginning as soon as mid-August over western Georgia to image geology using airborne...
Interactive Atlas of Critical Minerals
Critical minerals power the technology behind smartphones, computers and even fighter planes. The interactive Critical Minerals Atlas shows where...
Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology over the Duluth Complex & Cuyuna Range in Northeastern Minnesota
RESTON, Va.— Low-level airplane flights begin as soon as early August over the Duluth Complex and Cuyuna Range in Northeastern Minnesota to image...