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Iron in the water from mine waste (tailings) at the Opportunity Tailings Pond, Anaconda, Montana. Image Copyright © Stuart Jennings, Montana State
What can be done to prevent or clean up acid mine drainage?
American Geosciences Institute
A hydraulic fracturing operation is underway at this drilling pad in the Marcellus Shale gas play of southwestern Pennsylvania. Image Credit: USGS/Photo by Doug Duncan
What environmental issues are associated with hydraulic fracturing?
U.S. Geological Survey
A geothermal power plant at The Geysers near Santa Rosa, California. Some areas of The Geysers have been important test beds for enhanced geothermal systems. Image credit: USGS/Photo by Julie Donnelly-Nolan
What is an Enhanced Geothermal System?
American Geosciences Institute
Map showing estimated undiscovered but technically recoverable resources of coalbed methane in the United States. Image Credit: USGS
What is coalbed methane?
American Geosciences Institute
An example of frac sand, used in hydraulic fracturing. Image Credit: USGS/Photo by Bill Cunningham
What is frac sand?
American Geosciences Institute
Screenshot of the AGI glyph showing the different elements of geoscience.
What is geoscience?
American Geosciences Institute
A fluid impoundment containing produced waters at a drilling operation in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Image Credit: Hannah Hamilton/USGS
What is produced water?
American Geosciences Institute
Renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Fair Oaks, Indiana. Image Credit: NREL/DOE
What is renewable natural gas?
American Geosciences Institute
Geyser in West Basin of Yellowstone National Park. Image Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics
What is the potential for geothermal energy production in the United States?
U.S. Geological Survey
An example of anthracite coal, the purest grade of coal. Image Copyright © Dr. Richard Busch
What is the role of coal in the United States?
U.S. Energy Information Administration

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Mt. St Helens following its catastrophic 1980 eruption. Image Credit: U.S. Geological Survey/Photo by Tom Casadevall
How many active volcanoes are there in the United States?
U.S. Geological Survey
Rare earth elements include 17 elements: Yttrium, Scandium, and the Lanthanide Series. Image Credit: Peggy Greb, Agricultural Research Service, USDA
What are rare earth elements, and why are they important?
U.S. Geological Survey
Mine trucks moving material from the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mines in Colorado. Image Credit USGS/Photo by Yolanda Fong-Sam
What are the main methods of mining?
American Geosciences Institute
Total primary energy use in the United States in 2017 by source and sector. Image Credit: U.S. Energy Information Administration
What are the major sources and users of energy in the United States?
U.S. Energy Information Administration
An early example of a floating offshore wind turbine. Image Credit: NREL/Photo by Senu Sirnivas
What are the advantages and disadvantages of offshore wind farms?
American Geosciences Institute