National Minerals Information Center

The mission of the USGS National Minerals Information Center (formerly the Minerals Information Team) is to collect, analyze, and disseminate information on the domestic and international supply of and demand for minerals and mineral materials essential to the U.S. economy and national security. About 90 mineral commodities are covered.The Center's goal is to provide decision makers with the information required to ensure that the Nation has an adequate and dependable supply of minerals and materials to meet its defense and economic needs at acceptable costs related to environment, energy, and economics. In addition to special data releases available through ScienceBase, annual and monthly or quarterly statistical...

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Polished section showing replacement of arsenopyrite fragments by quartz and sercicite. Toole County, Utah. 1926.

Polished section showing replacement of arsenopyrite fragments by quartz and sercicite. Enlarged 100 times. Western Utah Mine. Toole County, Utah. ca. 1926. Plate 11-C, U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 177. 1935.

Categories: Image; Tags: Mills, Mines, Quarries, Nolan, T.B. Collection, Photographers, Quartz, Sercicite, All tags... Toole County, Utah, photo print, Fewer tags

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 - GEMSTONES Data Release

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

Categories: Data; Tags: United States, agate, beryl, coral, diamond, All tags... garnet, jade, jasper, nonmetallic mineral resources, opal, pearl, quartz, sapphire, shell, topaz, tourmaline, turquoise, Fewer tags

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023 - GEMSTONES Data Release

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

Categories: Data; Tags: United States, agate, beryl, coral, diamond, All tags... garnet, jade, jasper, nonmetallic mineral resources, opal, pearl, quartz, sapphire, shell, topaz, tourmaline, turquoise, Fewer tags

Polybasite (light gray) with bladelike outlines, inclosed by pyrargyrite (white); the dark gray is quartz. Nye County, Nevada. 1915.

Polybasite (light gray) with bladelike outlines, inclosed by pyrargyrite (white); the dark gray is quartz. The polybasite has been made visible by brief treatment with mercuric chloride solution. Photomicrograph of polished surface of ore, Tonopah Extension mine, exact location uncertain. Nye County, Nevada. 1915. Plate 4-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 104. 1918.

Categories: Image; Tags: Bastin, E.S. Collection, Mills, Mines, Quarries, Nye County, Nevada, Photographers, Photomicrographs, All tags... Quartz, photo print, Fewer tags

Transverse quartz stringers, Rainbow Mine. Sierra County, California. 1924.

Transverse quartz stringers in carbonatized slate close to main vein, Rainbow Mine, adit level. Light colored streaks and patches in the wall rock are chiefly carbonate. Sierra County, California. 1924. Plate 13-A, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 172. 1932.

Categories: Image; Tags: Ferguson, H.G. Collection, Photographers, Rainbow Mine, Sierra County, California, photo print, All tags... quartz, Fewer tags