Across sectors, the value of a single geological map ranged from $11,000 to $18,000 per use. Even taking the most conservative estimate — what users said they’d be willing to pay if maps weren ...

Rare earth minerals have become the backbone of modern technology, fueling everything from smartphones and electric vehicles ...

According to MiningNews.net, geologists funded by the Western Australian government have discovered a chemical fingerprint capable of revealing previously undiscovered concealed gold deposits. This ...

The Trump administration’s proposed budget bill would cut funding to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) by nearly 40%, ...

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI). Started in 2019 and later infused with $320 million from the bipartisan ...

Developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, during the first Trump administration, Earth MRI aims to comprehensively map the nation’s underground deposits of “critical minerals” — an ...

U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Anji Shah oversees an initiative to map critical mineral resources like cobalt and lithium in the Carolinas and Virginia. She said the data will provide a rough ...

As illustrated in the map above, based on data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the U.S. imports a significant portion of its minerals from allied countries like Canada, Brazil, and Germany ...

The Geological Earth Mapping Experiment, or GEMx for short, is a mission led by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to map critical minerals across more than 190,000 square miles (500,000 square ...

Nevada has the most mineral wealth of any state, producing almost $10 billion worth of nonfuel mineral commodities in 2024, which accounted for 9.4 percent of the country's annual output.

Bernard Hubbard didn’t set out to map minerals. As a geology PhD student at UB, he used satellite and airborne instruments to study volcanoes from above. Later, as a research geologist with the United ...

U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Anji Shah oversees an initiative to map critical mineral resources like cobalt and lithium in the Carolinas and Virginia. She said the data will provide a rough ...