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Bibliography of Publications by the USGS Eastern Mineral Resources team, 1996 - 1997

Bibliography of Publications by the USGS Eastern Mineral Resources team, 1998 - 1999

Bibliography of Publications by the USGS Eastern Mineral Resources team, 2000 - 2001

Bibliography of Publications by the USGS Eastern Mineral Resources team, 2002 - 2003

Bibliography of Publications by the USGS Eastern Mineral Resources team, 2004 - 2005

Bibliography of Publications by the USGS Eastern Mineral Resources team, 2006 - 2007

On-line publications: Technical publications || Informal publications || General interest publications || Other publications of interest

Technical publications

US

• On-line Mineral Databases
• Data Base for Undiscovered Deposits of Base and Precious Metals
• Geology of the Conterminous United States at 1:2,500,000 Scale -- A Digital Representation of the 1974 P.B. King and H.M. Beikman Map
• Color Shaded Relief Map of the Conterminous United States

Eastern U.S.

• Georgia Aeromagnetic and Gravity Maps and Data: A Web Site for Distribution of Data
• Wisconsin Aeromagnetic and Gravity Maps and Data: A Web Site for Distribution of Data
• Magnetic and Gravity Anomaly Maps of West Virginia
• Geologic Maps and Block Diagrams of the Barite Hill Gold-Silver Deposit and Vicinity, South Carolina and Georgia
• Acid Deposition Sensitivity Map of the Southern Appalachian Assessment Area
• Distribution of a Suite of Elements Including Arsenic and Mercury in Alabama Coal
• Estimated Gravel Resources of the Soucook River Valley, Loudon, New Hampshire
• Characteristics of Water-Well Yields in the Blue Ridge of Loudoun County, Virginia
• Ground Electromagnetic Survey Used to Map Sulfides and Acid Sulfate Ground Waters at Cabin Branch Mine, Prince William Forest Park, Northern Virginia Gold-Pyrite Belt

Upper Midwest

• Digital geologic map and mineral deposits of the Lake Superior region
• Preliminary Digital Geologic Map of the Early Proterozoic Continental Margin, Northern Michigan and Wisconsin
• Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Keweenaw Peninsula and Vicinity, Michigan
• An Environmental History of the 19th Century Marquette Iron Range
• Digital Bedrock Geologic Map of the Ashland and Northern Part of the Ironwood 30'x60'Quadrangles, Wisconsin and Michigan

Western U.S.

• An interpretation of the 1997 Airborne ElectroMagnetic (AEM) survey, Fort Huachuca vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona
• Geophysical Signatures Used to Constrain Geologic Mapping: The Search for VMS Deposits in Southeast Alaska
• Aerial Gamma-Ray Surveys in Alaska
• A Case Study of the Environmental Signature of a Recently Abandoned, Carbonate-hosted Replacement Deposit: The Clayton Mine, Idaho
• Analytical Results and Sample Locations of Reanalyzed NURE Stream-Sediment and Soil Samples for the Humboldt River Basin Mineral-Environmental Assessment, Northern Nevada
• San Antonio, Texas audio-magnetotelluric data: A web site for distribution of data

International

• On-line Mineral Databases
• Geology and Resource Assessment of Costa Rica at 1:500,000 Scale
• Geology and Resource Assessment of the Venezuelan Guayana Shield at 1:500,000 Scale
• The Sedimentary Carbonate-Hosted Giant Bayan Obo REE-Fe-Nb Ore Deposit of Inner Mongolia, China

Other

• The Role of Mineral Resource Assessments in Ecological Stewardship
• ESRI ArcView Extension: Point Stat Calc
• A Microsoft Windows Version of the MARK3 Monte Carlo Resource Simulator

Informal publications

• Mineral Resource Data Bases
• Environmental Characteristics of Clays and Clay Mineral Deposits
• Environmental Processes that Affect Mineral Deposits in the Eastern United States
• Mineral-Resource and Related Activities in the Upper Midwest
• National Mineral-Resource Assessment: 1996 Estimate of Undiscovered Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc Remaining in the U.S.
• Potential for New Nickel-Copper Sulfide Deposits in the Lake Superior Region
• Stable Isotopes and Mineral Resource Investigations in the US
• Radiogenic Isotopes and the Eastern Mineral Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
• Remote Sensing in the USGS Mineral Resource Surveys Program in the Eastern United States
• Revising U.S. Geological Survey Mineral-Resource Assessment Methods
• Offshore Industrial Mineral Studies Using a Marine Induced-Polarization Streamer System

General interest publications

• The Geologic Story of the Ocoee River - Cherokee National Forest of southeastern Tennessee
• Frank, Dave, Galloway, John, and Assmus, Ken, 2005, The life cycle of a mineral deposit--A teacher's guide for hands-on mineral education activities: U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product 17 [available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/17/ ].
• Geology of the Ocoee Whitewater Center, Cherokee National Forest
• Volcanic Fire and Glacial Ice: Geologic Wonders of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests: No. 4 in a series, by US Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Forest Service, Southern Region), 2007
• Glimpses of the Ice Age from I-81 - remnants of the Ice Age on the mountains between Strasburg and Harrisonburg, Virginia
• The Mountain That Moved - the largest known landslides in eastern North America and among the largest in the world, Montgomery and Craig Counties, Virginia
• A Central Appalachian Rock Band - A rock band that helps explain about the changing earth -- but not the kind of rock band you might expect. These are the rocks that make up the Central Appalachian Mountains.
• A Southern Appalachian Rock Band - This rock band is composed of the rocks that make up the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Other publications of interest

• Collecting Rocks
• Gold
• Prospecting for Gold in the United States
• Crystalline Silica Primer
• An Overview of Production of Specific U.S. Gemstones

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