2D micromodel studies of pore-throat clogging by pure fine-grained sediments and natural sediments from NGHP-02, offshore India

Fine-grained sediments, or “fines,” are nearly ubiquitous in natural sediments, even in the predominantly coarse-grained sediments that host gas hydrates. Fines within these sandy sediments can be mobilized and subsequently clog flow pathways while methane is being extracted from gas hydrate as an energy resource. Using two-dimensional (2D) micromodels to test the conditions in which clogging occurs provides insights for choosing production operation parameters that optimize methane recovery in the field. During methane extraction, several processes can alter the mobility and clogging potential of fines: (1) fluid flow as the formation is depressurized to release methane from gas hydrate, (2) shifting pore-fluid...

Categories: Data; Tags: 2D micromodel, Bay of Bengal, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geophysics, Indian Ocean, All tags... Krishna-Godavari Basin, Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Marine Geology, NGHP-02, NGHP-02-09, NGHP-02-16, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, bentonite, brine, calcium carbonate, clogging, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, illite, image analysis, kaolin, laboratory experiments, mica, natural resource extraction, optical microscopy, permeability, silica silt, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Multispectral aerial imagery collected during unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) operations in Massachusetts between March 2018 - September 2018

Low-altitude (80 and 100 meters above ground level) digital images were collected at Sage Lot Pond in Waquoit, Massachusetts, two sites on the Mill River in Taunton, MA, Great Marsh in Barnstable, MA, the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve in Wells, ME, and on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Quissett Campus in Woods Hole, MA using 3DR Solo unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) during 2018. These images were collected to support science and data needs in wetland research, topographic mapping, and landcover detection at the U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. The imagery and associated ground control points can be used to create Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), orthoimages,...

Categories: Data, Image; Tags: 3DR Solo quadcopter, Barnstable, Barnstable Harbor, CMHRP, Coastal/Marine Hazards and Resources Program, All tags... Complete, Field activity 2018-004_FA, Field activity 2018-009_FA, Field activity 2018-046_FA, Great Marsh, Image, Mashpee, Massachusetts, Mica, MicaSense RedEdge, Rededge, Sage Lot Pond, Sandy Neck Beach State Park, South Cape Beach State Park, TIFF, U.S. Geological Survey, UAS, USA, USGS, Unmanned aerial system, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, aerial imagery, aerial photography, drone, geoscientificInformation, geotagged photos, image collections, location, low-altitude aerial imagery, marsh, multispectral, near-infrared, photographs, photos, remote sensing, Fewer tags

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries of Select Countries in the Indo-Pacific

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for 19 countries of interest in the Indo-Pacific region (area of study): Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Fiji, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea (Republic of Korea), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Asia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, All tags... Economic Geology, Energy Resources, Fiji, Geography, Indo-Pacific, Information Sciences, LNG, Malaysia, Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area (JDA), Mineral Resources, Mongolia, NGL, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea (Republic of Korea), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vietnam, alumina, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, bauxite, bismuth, cadmium, calcium carbonate, cement, chromium, clay, coal, coal area, coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, coalfield, cobalt, coke, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, development, exploration, feldspar, ferroalloys, fluorspar, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gemstone, gold, graphite, gypsum, hydrocarbon resources, hydrogen, indium, iron and steel, iron ore, iron sand, lead, lime, liquefied natural gas, liquid natural gas, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral development, mineral exploration, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, natural gas, natural gas liquids, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, oil, oil and gas, oil production, palladium, peat, perlite, permissive, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate rock, platinum, platinum group elements, porphyry copper, potassium, pyrophyllite, rare earths, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, resources, rhenium, rhodium, salt, sand and gravel, scandium, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, shale gas, shale oil, silica, silica sand, silicon, silver, smelting, stone, sulfur, talc, tantalum, tellurium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tracts, tungsten, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, zeolites, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 - MICA (NATURAL) Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the MICA (NATURAL) data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024.

Categories: Data; Tags: United States, mica, nonmetallic mineral resources

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of the People's Republic of China

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for the People's Republic of China. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical infrastructure integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study as well as the movement of mineral products across domestic and global markets. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains by updating and publishing the georeferenced locations of mineral commodity production and processing facilities, mineral...

Tags: Asia, China, Economic Geology, Energy Resources, Fujian Province, All tags... GIS, Geography, Guangdong Province, Guanxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hainan Province, Hebei Province, Hunan Province, Information Sciences, Jiangsu Province, LNG, Mineral Resources, NGL, PGE, REE, Shandong Province, South China Sea, Tianjin Municipality, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Zhejiang Province, aluminum, amethyst, antimony, antimony occurrence, antimony resources, aquamarine, aragonite, arsenic, asbestos, barite, barium, bauxite, beforsite, bentonite, beryl beryllium, bismuth, boron, brine, brown coal, bulk cargo, bulk shipping, cadmium, calcium, celestite, cement, cesium, chromium,, clay, coal, coal (brown), coal (hard), coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, coalfield, cobalt, columbium, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, dam, deposit, diamond, electrical transmission lines, electricity, electricity generation, emerald, energy, energy generation, epidote, evaporite-related potash, exploration, extra high voltage, ferroalloys, floating storage, fluorite, fluorspar, fluxstone, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gas terminal, gemstone, gemstones, geography, gold, graphite, gypsum, hafnium, halite, halite (brine), hard coal, hydrocarbon resources, iron, iron (carbonatite), iron and steel, iron ore, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, lead, limestone, liquefied natural gas (LNG), lithium, magnesite, magnesium, manganese, marble, maritime port, mercury, methanol, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral deposit, mineral exploration, mineral exports, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, morganite, muscovite, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGL), nickel, niobium, niobium (columbium), non-renewable energy, ochre, oil, oil and gas, oil and gas terminal, oil production, oil terminal, onshore, peat, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate occurrence, phosphate resources, phosphorite, phosphorus, platinum-group elements, porphyry copper, port, port terminal, potash, potash occurrence, potash resources, potassium, power, power generation, power lines, power plant, power station, power transmission, quartz, rare earth elements, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, regasification, regasification unit (FSRU), renewable energy, resources, rhenium, rose quartz, rubidium, ruby, salt, sand, sand (glass), sand and gravel, sandstone, sapphire, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, serpentine, shale gas, shale oil, shipping port, silica, silver, smelting, sodium, sphalerite, spinel, strontium, sulfur, sövite, talc, tantalum, technetium, tellurium, terminal, thorium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tourmaline, transmission lines, tungsten, ultra high voltage, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, vermiculite, water storage, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023 - MICA (NATURAL) Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the MICA (NATURAL) data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023.

Categories: Data; Tags: United States, mica, nonmetallic mineral resources

Dependence of sediment compressibility and recompressibility on pore fluid chemistry for pure, endmember fines

The safety, effectiveness and longevity of many construction and geotechnical engineering projects rely on correctly accounting for the evolution of soil properties over time. Critical sediment properties, such as compressibility, can change in response to pore-fluid chemistry changes, particularly if the sediment contains appreciable concentrations of fine-grained materials. Pore-fluid changes act at the micro scale, altering interactions between sediment particles, or between sediment particles and the pore fluid. These micro-scale alterations change how sediment fabrics and void ratios develop, which directly impacts macro-scale properties such as sediment compressibility. The goal of this study is to correlate...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, All tags... USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, calcium carbonate, compressibility, consolidation, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, illite, kaolin, kerosene, mica, recompresibility, silica silt, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Select Countries in Southwest Asia

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for 10 countries of interest in Southwest Asia (area of study): Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, and Thailand. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical infrastructure integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study as well as the movement of mineral products across domestic and global markets. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains...

Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Cambodia, Economic Geology, Energy Resources, All tags... Geography, India, Indonesia, Information Sciences, Iran, LNG, LNG terminals, Laos, Malaysia–Thailand JDA, Mineral Resources, NGL, Nepal, North Korea, PGE, Pakistan, REE, Thailand, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aluminum, amethyst, antimony, aquamarine, aragonite, arsenic, asbestos, barite, barium, bauxite, beforsite, bentonite, beryl, beryllium, bismuth, boron, brine, brown coal, bulk cargo, bulk shipping, cadmium, calcium, celestite, cement, cesium, chromium, clay, coal, coal (brown), coal (hard), coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, cobalt, columbium, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, critical minerals, deposit, diamond, dry port, electrical transmission lines, electricity, electricity generation, emerald, energy, energy generation, epidote, evaporite-related potash, exploration, ferroalloys, fluorite, fluorspar, fluxstone, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gas terminal, gasification, gemstone, gemstones, gold, graphite, gypsum, hafnium, halite, halite (brine), hard coal, hydrocarbon resources, iron, iron (carbonatite), iron and steel, iron ore, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, lead, limestone, liquefaction, liquefied natural gas, lithium, magnesite, magnesium, manganese, marble, maritime port, mercury, methanol, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral deposit, mineral exploration, mineral exports, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, morganite, muscovite, natural gas, natural gas liquids, nickel, niobium, niobium (columbium), non-renewable energy, ochre, oil, oil and gas, oil and gas terminal, oil production, oil terminal, peat, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate occurrence, phosphate resources, phosphorite, platinum-group elements, porphyry copper, port, port terminal, potash, potash occurrence, potash resources, potassium, power, power generation, power lines, power plant, power station, quartz, rare earth elements, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, regasification, renewable energy, resources, rhenium, rose quartz, rubidium, ruby, salt, sand, sand (glass), sand and gravel, sandstone, sapphire, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, serpentine, shale gas, shale oil, shipping port, silica, silver, smelting, sodium, sphalerite, spinel, stratabound copper, strontium, sulfur, sövite, talc, tantalum, technetium, tellurium, thorium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tourmaline, transmission lines, tungsten, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, vermiculite, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Digital map of iron sulfate minerals, other mineral groups, and vegetation of the western United States derived from automated analysis of Landsat 8 satellite data

Multispectral remote sensing data acquired by Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor were analyzed using an automated technique to generate surficial mineralogy and vegetation maps of the conterminous western United States. Six spectral indices (e.g. band-ratios), highlighting distinct spectral absorptions, were developed to aid in the identification of mineral groups in exposed rocks, soils, mine waste rock, and mill tailings across the landscape. The data are centered on the western U.S. and cover portions of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, the Canada-U.S. border, and the Mexico-U.S. border during the summers of 2013 – 2014. Methods used to process the images and algorithms used to infer mineralogical composition...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Arizona, California, Canada, Colorado, Idaho, All tags... Kansas, Land Use Change, Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Remote Sensing, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Washington, Wyoming, agricultural fields, argillic, clay, computational methods, computational methods, computational methods, ferric iron, ferrous iron, geoscientificInformation, green vegetation, hydrothermal alteration, image analysis, image analysis, image analysis, iron hydroxide minerals, iron sulfate minerals, land use and land cover, land use and land cover, land use and land cover, marble, mica, mine waste, multispectral imaging, multispectral imaging, multispectral imaging, oxides, pyrite, remote sensing, remote sensing, remote sensing, Fewer tags

Digital map of iron sulfate minerals, other mineral groups, and vegetation of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, and Four Corners Region derived from automated analysis of Landsat 8 satellite data

Multispectral remote sensing data acquired by the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor were analyzed using a new, automated technique to generate a map of exposed mineral and vegetation groups in the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado and the Four Corners Region of the United States (Rockwell and others, 2021). Spectral index (e.g. band-ratio) results were combined into displayed mineral and vegetation groups using Boolean algebra. New analysis logic has been implemented to exploit the coastal aerosol band in Landsat 8 OLI data and identify concentrations of iron sulfate minerals. These results may indicate the presence of near-surface pyrite, which can be a potential non-point source of acid rock drainage....

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Four Corners region, Lake City caldera, New Mexico, All tags... San Juan Mountains, Silverton caldera, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, agricultural fields, argillic, clay, computational methods, ferric iron, ferrous iron, geoscientificInformation, green vegetation, hydrothermal alteration, image analysis, iron hydroxide minerals, iron sulfate minerals, land use and land cover, marble, mica, mine waste, multispectral imaging, oxides, pyrite, remote sensing, Fewer tags

Tin Deposits in the United States

This data release provides descriptions of more than 120 mineral regions, mines, and mineral deposits within the United States that are reported to contain enrichments of tin (Sn). This data release only includes sites with publicly available records of past production of tin, or a defined resource of tin, or both. The inclusion of a particular mineral deposit in this database is not meant to imply that it has economic potential; it may be produced only as a byproduct at some sites. Rather, these deposits were included to capture the distribution of characteristics of the known, reported tin deposits in the United States. This logic also applies to the other commodities listed with tin in some occurrences. The...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, California, All tags... Colorado, Mineralogy, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming, arsenic, beryllium, bismuth, cassiterite, cerium, copper, economic geology, feldspar, fluorite, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, location, mercury, mica, mine, mine sites, mineral commodity, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, molybdenum, natural resource exploration, niobium, open pit mine, phosphorus pentoxide, platinum-group elements, rare earth elements, rhenium, samarium, silver, tantalum, tantalum-niobium, thorium, tin, titanium, tungsten, underground workings, uranium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Dependence of sedimentation rate and behavior on pore fluid chemistry for pure, endmember fines

The safety, effectiveness and longevity of many construction and geotechnical engineering projects rely on correctly accounting for the evolution of soil properties over time. Critical sediment properties, such as compressibility, can change in response to pore-fluid chemistry changes, particularly if the sediment contains appreciable concentrations of fine-grained materials. Pore-fluid changes act at the micro scale, altering interactions between sediment particles, or between sediment particles and the pore fluid. These micro-scale alterations change how sediment fabrics and void ratios develop, which directly impacts macro-scale properties such as sediment compressibility. The goal of this study is to correlate...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, All tags... USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, bentonite, brine, calcium carbonate, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, illite, kaolin, kerosene, mica, settling, silica silt, sodium hexametaphosphate, soil sciences, Fewer tags

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022 - MICA (NATURAL) Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the MICA (NATURAL) data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022.

Categories: Data; Tags: United States, mica, nonmetallic mineral resources