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- Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Occurrence Model
2012
Shanks, W.C. Pat, III, and Thurston, Roland, eds.
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5070-C - Arc-Related Porphyry Molybdenum Deposit Model
2012
Taylor, R.D., Hammarstrom, J.M., Piatak, N.M., and Seal, R.R. II
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5070-D - Deposit Model for Closed-Basin Potash-Bearing Brines
2011
Orris, G.J.
USGS Open-File Report 2011-1283 - Ni-Co Laterite Deposits—A Deposit Model
2011
Marsh, E.E. and Anderson, E.D.
USGS Open-File Report 2011-1259 - Carbonatite and Alkaline Intrusion-Related Rare Earth Element Deposits—A Deposit Model
2011
Verplanck, P.L., and Van Gosen, B.S.
USGS Open-File Report 2011-1256 - Deposit Model for Volcanogenic Uranium Deposits
2011
Breit, G.N., and Hall, S.M.
USGS Open-File Report 2011-1255 - Stratiform Chromite Deposit Model
2010
R.F. Schulte, R.D. Taylor, N.M. Piatak, and R.R. Seal II
USGS Open-File Report 2010-1232 - Co-Cu-Au Deposits in Metasedimentary Rocks–A Preliminary Report
2010
J.F. Slack, J.D. Causey, R.G. Eppinger, J.E. Gray, C.A. Johnson, K.I. Lund, and K.J. Schulz
USGS Open-File Report 2010-1212 - An Occurrence Model for the National Assessment of Volcanogenic Beryllium Deposits
2010
N.K. Foley, R.R. Seal II, N.M. Piatak, and B.R. Hetland
USGS Open-File Report 2010-1195 - Magmatic Sulfide-Rich Nickel-Copper Deposits Related to Picrite and (or) Tholeiitic Basalt Dike-Sill Complexes: A Preliminary Deposit Model
2010
K.J. Schulz, V.W. Chandler, S.W. Nicholson, N. Piatak, R.R. Seal II, L.G. Woodruff, and M.L. Zientek
USGS Open-File Report 2010-1179 - Porphyry Copper Deposit Model, Chapter B of Mineral Deposit Models for Resource Assessment
2010
D.A. John, editor, with contributions by R.A. Ayuso, M.D. Barton, R.J. Blakely, R.J. Bodnar, J.H. Dilles, F. Gray, F.T. Graybeal, J.C. Mars, D.K. McPhee, R.R. Seal, R.D. Taylor, and P.G. Vikre
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5070-B - A Deposit Model for Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zinc Ores, Chapter A of Mineral Deposit Models for Resource Assessment
2010
D.L. Leach, R.D. Taylor, D.L. Fey, S.F. Diehl, and R.W. Saltus
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5070-A - Sediment-Hosted Zinc-Lead Deposits of the World–Database and Grade and Tonnage Models
2009
D.A. Singer, V.I. Berger, and B.C. Moring
USGS Open-File Report 2009-1252 - A New Occurrence Model for National Assessment of Undiscovered Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits
2009
W.C. Shanks III, C. Dusel-Bacon, R. Koski, L.A. Morgan, D. Mosier, N.M. Piatak, I. Ridley, R.R. Seal II, K.J. Schulz, J.F. Slack, and R. Thurston
USGS Open-File Report 2009-1235 - Climax-Type Porphyry Molybdenum Deposits
2009
S. Ludington and G.S. Plumlee
USGS Open-File Report 2009-1215 - Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zinc Deposit Model
2009
D.L. Leach and R.D. Taylor
USGS Open-File Report 2009-1213 - Low-fluorine Stockwork Molybdenite Deposits
2009
S. Ludington, J. Hammarstrom, and N. Piatak
USGS Open-File Report 2009-1211 - Geologic Criteria for the Assessment of Sedimentary Exhalative (Sedex) Zn-Pb-Ag Deposits
2009
P. Emsbo
USGS Open-File Report 2009-1209 - Carbonatites of the World, Explored Deposits of Nb and REE–Database and Grade and Tonnage Models
2009
V.I. Berger, D.A. Singer, and G.J. Orris
USGS Open-File Report 2009-1139 - Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits of the World - Database and Grade and Tonnage Models
2009
D.L. Mosier, V.I. Berger, and D.A. Singer
USGS Open-File Report 2009-1034 - Modeling Cape- and Ridge-Associated Marine Sand Deposits; A Focus on the U.S. Atlantic Continental Shelf
2009
J.D. Bliss, S.J. Williams, and K.S. Bolm
USGS Bulletin 2209-M - Porphyry Copper Deposits of the World: Database and Grade and Tonnage Models, 2008
2008
D.A. Singer, V.I. Berger, and B.C. Moring
USGS Open-File Report 2008-1155 - Preliminary Model of Porphyry Copper Deposits
2008
B.R. Berger, R.A. Ayuso, J.C. Wynn, and R.R. Seal
USGS Open-File Report 2008-1321 - Proceedings for a Workshop on Deposit Modeling, Mineral Resource Assessment, and Their Role in Sustainable Development
2007
J.A. Briskey and K.J. Schulz, Editors
USGS Circular 1294 - Descriptive and Grade-Tonnage Models and Database for Iron Oxide Cu-Au Deposits
2007
D.P. Cox and D.A. Singer
USGS Open-File Report 2007-1155 - A tectonic model for the spatial occurrence of porphyry copper and polymetallic vein deposits - applications to Central Europe
2006
L.J. Drew
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5272 - Porphyry copper deposits of the world: database, map, and grade and tonnage models
2005
D.A. Singer, V.I. Berger, and B.C. Moring
USGS Open-File Report 2005-1060 - Sediment-Hosted Copper Deposits of the World: Deposit Models and Database
2003
D.P. Cox, D.A. Lindsey, D.A. Singer, and M.F. Diggles
USGS Open-File Report 2003-107 - Low-sulfide quartz gold deposit model
2003
L.J. Drew
USGS Open-File Report 2003-77 - Agenda, extended abstracts, and bibliographies for a workshop on Deposit modeling, mineral resources assessment, and their role in sustainable development
2002
J.A. Briskey and K.J. Schulz, Editors
USGS Open-File Report 2002-423 - Progress on geoenvironmental models for selected mineral deposit types
2002
R.R. Seal II and N.K. Foley, Editors
USGS Open-File Report 2002-195 - Assessment method for epithermal gold deposits in Northeast Washington State using weights-of-evidence GIS modeling
2001
D.E. Boleneus, G.L. Raines, J.D. Causey, A.A. Bookstrom, T.P. Frost, and P.C. Hyndman
USGS Open-File Report 2001-501 - USGS Mineral Deposit Models
2000
D.B. Stoeser and W.D. Heran, Editors
USGS Data Series 64 - Preliminary report on deposit models for sand and gravel in the Cache la Poudre River valley
1999
W.H. Langer and D.A. Lindsey
USGS Open-File Report 99-587 - Additional descriptive models of industrial mineral deposits
1998
G.J. Orris, Editor
USGS Open-File Report 98-505 - Slide Show on Gravel Deposit Models and Measuring Aggregate Quality, Front Range Urban Corridor, Colorado
1998
D.A. Lindsey and W.H. Langer
USGS Open-File Report 98-332 - Revised grade and tonnage model of carbonatite deposits
1998
D.A. Singer
USGS Open-File Report 98-235 - An Introduction to Sand and Gravel Deposit Models, Front Range Urban Corridor (PDF, 108 K)
1997
D.A. Lindsey
USGS Open-File Report 97-81 - Uranium Provinces of North America—Their Definition, Distribution, and Models
1996
W.I. Finch
USGS Bulletin 2141 (A product of the Central Region Energy Program) - Preliminary Compilation of Descriptive Geoenvironmental Mineral Deposit Models
1995
E.A. du Bray, Editor
USGS Open-File Report 95-831 - Descriptive, grade, and tonnage models for molybdenum-tungsten greisen deposits
1995
B.B. Kotlyar, S.D. Ludington, D.L. Mosier
USGS Open-File Report 95-584 - Geologic Characterization of Natural Aggregate—A Field Geologist's Guide to Natural Aggregate Resource Assessment
1995
W.H. Langer and D.H. Knepper, Jr.
USGS Open-File Report 95-582 - Mineral Deposit Modeling Using Components for Complex Mineral Deposits: Mixed Base- and Prescious-Metal Veins of the Idaho Batholith, Idaho
1994
J.D. Bliss
USGS Open-File Report 94-690 - Mineral Descriptive and Grade-Tonnage Models of Archean Low-Sulfide Gold-Quartz Veins and a Revised Grade-Tonnage Model of Homestake Gold
1994
T.L. Klein and W.C. Day
USGS Open-File Report 94-250 - Geoenvironmental Models of Mineral Deposits, and Geology-Based Mineral-Environmental Assessments of Public Lands
1994
G.S. Plumlee, K.S. Smith, and W. Ficklin
USGS Open-File Report 94-203 - Codicil to The Geophysical Expression of Selected Mineral Deposit Models
1994
W.D. Heran, Editor
USGS Open-File Report 94-174 - Remote Sensing and Airborne Geophysics in the Assessment of Natural Aggregate Resources
1994
D.H. Knepper, W.H. Langer, and S.H. Miller
USGS Open-File Report 94-158 - Grade and Tonnage Model of Tungsten Skarn Deposits, Nevada
1993
D.A. John and J.D. Bliss
USGS Open-File Report 94-5 - Quantifying Favorableness for Occurrence of a Mineral Deposit Type Using Fuzzy Logic—An Example from Arizona
1993
M.E. Gettings and M.W. Bultman
USGS Open-File Report 93-392 - Digital Grade and Tonnage Data for 50 Types of Mineral Deposits
1993
D.A. Singer, D.L. Mosier, and W.D. Menzie
USGS Open-File Report 93-280 - Grade and Tonnage Model of Porphyry Copper Deposits in British Columbia, Canada, and Alaska, U.S.A.
1993
W.D. Menzie and D.A. Singer
USGS Open-File Report 93-275 - Descriptive, and Grade and Tonnage Model for Gold-Antimony Deposits
1993
V.I. Berger
USGS Open-File Report 93-194 - Industrial Mineral Deposit Models—Descriptive Models for three Lacustrine Deposit Types
1992
G.J. Orris
USGS Open-File Report 92-0593 - The Geophysical Expression of Selected Mineral Deposit Models
1992
D.B. Hoover, W.D. Heran, and P.L. Hill, Editors
USGS Open-File Report 92-557 - Industrial Mineral Deposit Models: Grade and Tonnage Models
1992
G.J. Orris and J.D. Bliss, Editors
USGS Open-File Report 92-0437 - Mineral Deposit Model Classifier
1992
D.L. Mosier
USGS Open-File Report 92-425 - Grade and Tonnage Data for Climax Mo and Creede Epithermal Vein Deposit Models
1992
W.D. Menzie, D.A. Singer, and D.L. Mosier, Editors
USGS Open-File Report 92-248 - Developments in Mineral Deposit Modeling
1992
J.D. Bliss, Editor
USGS Bulletin 2004 - Gold Deposits Related to Greenstone Belts in Brazil: Deposit Modeling Workshop; Part A, Excursions
1991
C.H. Thorman, E.A. Ladeira,and D.C. Schnabel, Editors
USGS Bulletin 1980-A - Gold-Bearing Skarns
1991
T.G. Theodore, G.J. Orris, J.M. Hammarstrom, and J.D. Bliss
USGS Bulletin 1930 - Some Industrial Mineral Deposit Models: Descriptive Deposit Models
1991
G.J. Orris and J.D. Bliss, Editors
USGS Open-File Report 91-11-A - Descriptive and Grade-Tonnage Models for Distal Disseminated Ag-Au Deposits; A Supplement to U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1693
1990
D.P. Cox and D.A. Singer
USGS Open-File Report 90-282 - The Midcontinent of the United States—Permissive Terrane for an Olympic Dam-Type Deposit?
1988
W.P. Pratt and P.K. Sims, Editors
USGS Bulletin 1932 - Descriptive and Grade-Tonnage Models of Volcanogenic Manganese Deposits in Oceanic Environments—A Modification
1988
D.L. Mosier and N.J. Page
USGS Bulletin 1811 - Mineral Deposit Models
1986
D.P. Cox and D.A. Singer, Editors
USGS Bulletin 1693 - Geologic and Grade-Tonnage Information on Tertiary Epithermal Precious- and Base-Metal Vein Districts Associated with Volcanic Rocks
1986
D.L. Mosier, W.D. Menzie and F.J. Kleinhamp
USGS Bulletin 1666 - Prospects for Mineral Resource Assessments on Public Lands: Proceedings of the Leesburg Workshop
1986
S.M. Cargill and S.B. Green, Editors
USGS Circular 980 - Mineral Deposit Models: Theory and Practice
1985
S. Ludington, P.B. Barton, Jr., and K.M. Johnson
USGS Open-File Report 85-391 - Characteristics of Mineral Deposit Occcurrences
1982
R.L. Erickson, Compiler
USGS Open-File Report 82-795
