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10:56:37 PM War In Afghanistan
TPM - New York,NY,USA

American geologists who assessed Afghanistan's mineral deposits realized the potentially vast economic benefits of the minerals as far back as 2007, .... [more]

10:31:46 PM There are better places than Afghanistan to mine for lithium. - Molly
Slate

Slate Magazine R. Keith Evans, a geologist who has worked in the lithium industry since the 1970s, estimated in 2009 that the world's known supply of lithium was more than ... [more]

10:01:38 PM Wealth: Curse or blessing?
Charlottesville Daily Progress

There is no denying that the mineral deposits found by a US Geological Survey — following earlier discoveries of natural resources — could propel ... [more]

7:33:14 PM An astronomer's guide to the night skies of national parks
Los Angeles Times Blogs - Los Angeles,CA,USA

“The key to the book is not just talking about the dark sky and the Milky Way, but how the landscape and geology, how what you see on the ground, ... [more]

6:41:56 PM Niobium Or Columbium?
istockAnalyst.com - Salem,OR,USA

The US Geological Survey (USGS) still lists its Mineral Commodity Summaries and Minerals Yearbook entries for the metal as "Niobium (Columbium). ... [more]

6:26:35 PM After BP oil spill, 'peak' oil seems nearer than ever
Christian Science Monitor - USA

•Will be reached within five years – or "we may have already reached it," says Richard Miller, a London consulting geologist who up until 2008 worked for BP ... [more]

6:08:45 PM Great Basin Gold reports significant advances in Hollister geological ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

Significant progress has been made in 2010 with the geological and structural modeling of the Hollister epithermal vein systems. The added experience and ... [more]

5:39:49 PM British geologists probe Arctic origins
CBC News - Canada

Geologists Helen Smyth and Stephen Rippington of the Cambridge Arctic Shelf Program at Cambridge University are collecting samples and making observations ... [more]

4:45:58 PM Discovery of subatomic particles could answer deep questions in geology
Princeton University - Princeton,NJ,USA

Convection, in turn, drives plate tectonics and all the accompanying dynamics of geology seen from the surface -- continents moving, seafloor spreading, ... [more]

3:29:48 PM Even a Newborn Canyon is Big in Texas
US News - USA

“Geology is typically about events that happened long ago and very slowly,” comments Sanjeev Gupta, a field geologist at Imperial College London . ... [more]

12:46:56 PM Midlands Moves to JV Diamond Assets in Tanzania
MarketWatch - USA

He is a recognized expert in kimberlite geology and his extensive diamond experience includes diamond ore body delineation and resource evaluation. .... [more]

12:26:50 PM What if Mars has been there, done that?
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA

A team of astronaut-geologists completed a detailed analysis of soil taken from the old lake bed discovered in 2009 and reached a chilling conclusion. .... [more]

11:51:02 AM P-3 helps find mineral wealth in Afghanistan
NavyTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA

They are very sophisticated, very versatile instruments,” said Jack Medlin, a USGS geologist who worked with the Naval Research Laboratory on the Afghan ... [more]

10:57:24 AM Gulf of Mexico: Danger of Tsunamis From Methane?
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The "flow team" of the US Geological Survey estimates that 2900 cubic feet of natural gas, which primarily contains methane, is being released into the Gulf ... [more]

8:54:45 AM Directorate Change
Market Wire (press release) - USA

He will be greatly missed, not only by us, but by all his colleagues in the industry and those students to whom he gave such an excellent start in geology, ... [more]

7:43:02 AM Roch Player, geotechnical engineer
Everett Herald - Everett,WA,USA

By Theresa Goffredo, Herald Writer Actually, my dad is a geologist and when I was little he would take me out with him on site. ... [more]

5:29:08 AM 38 Oiled Pelicans Released In Aransas Wildlife Refuge
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA

By Mitch Bryan ARANSAS - Dr. Dan Mulcahy with the US Geological Survey said, "This is the pelican oil spill. There are far more pelicans than any other ... [more]

3:48:48 AM The Pentagon's Afghan Mineral "Find"
Pacific Free Press - Victoria,BC,Canada

Here is the Journal's overview: Afghanistan has some of the most complex and varied geology in the world. The oldest rocks are Archean and they are .... [more]

1:03:58 AM Afghanistan's mineral riches: It's about the batteries
CTV - Canada

As first reported in the New York Times, a team of Pentagon officials and US geologists have identified nearly $1 trillion worth of mineral deposits in ... [more]



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