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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

LARAMIE – The Wyoming State Geological Survey, in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey, will conduct a high-resolution airborne geophysical survey across portions of southeast Wyoming ...

In any case, much of the gold ground is already locked up by large claimholders, who are more interested in finding out how much gold lie on their own properties, rather than in a general mineral map.

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 ...