The Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources offers outreach opportunities for Arizona elementary and high school students.
Recent Posts
Part III. Landslides along the I-17 corridor near Camp Verde in central Arizona's Verde Valley.
Virtual presentation on the geology and mining history of the Sweet Home Mine and the Detroit City Portal, Colorado
The USGS Docket 1950 to 1974 collection for Arizona includes 357 mining properties.
AZGS at work for Arizona: Landslides adjacent to I-17 between Black Canyon City and the Sunset Point Rest area
AZGS releases geologic maps for the Secret Pass 7 ½' Quadrangle and the southern part of the Union Pass 7 ½' Quadrangle, Mohave County, Arizona.
AZGS geoscientists are examining and mapping landslide features along the I-17 corridor from Anthem to Flagstaff. The results will inform ADOT's $300+ million project to improve I-17.
AZGS posts a searchable index of ~12,000 articles published between 1910 and 1996 by the US Bureau of Mines.
Studying the Earth in the field is an integral method of geoscience (Kastens et al., 2009), and teaching in the field is fundamental to geoscience education (Whitmeyer et al., 2009).
AZGS is providing the ‘Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes and their Uranium Favorability’ report published in 1980 as part of the U.S. National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) program.
Every four years the National Earthquake Program Managers (NEPM) meeting dovetails with that of the National Earthquake Conference (NEC). The result is a 5-day conference to evaluate the latest in earthquake science, earthquake engineering, and earthquake mitigation strategies.
AZGS uses social media and web resources to reach beyond our native stakeholders to a broader public audience.
Arizona's slice of the US nonfuel mineral pie is second only to that of Nevada.
The San Manuel copper mine of SE Arizona provides an example of ground subsidence that accompanies block caving.
A summary of observations of a small-volume rockfall along Highway I-17 southbound, near mile-marker 250.
The evolving sedimentological picture of the lower Colorado River system before and after engineering efforts to control flow.
Over the past several months AZGS has release 20 geodatabases to accompany geologic maps of our Digital Geologic Map series.
Graduate students at the UArizona and ASU wade into earth fissures.
AZGS's Carson Richardson reviews Arizona mining and mineral exploration at AEMA Annual Meeting, Sparks, NV.
Arizona Mining Review shoots its 50 episode with Greg Hahn of Arizona Silver Exploration.
