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Survey of water quality in a mine water filtration pond. Image Credit: Ron Nichols, USDA NRCS
What are environmental regulations on mining activities?
American Geosciences Institute
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
Coal. Image Credit: CSIRO, CC BY 2.0, Coal
What are the different types of coal?
American Geosciences Institute
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
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
Tailings pond from a gold mine. Image Copyright © Marli Miller, University of Oregon. http://www.earthscienceworld.org/images
What happens before, during, and after mining?
American Geosciences Institute
Image of chalcopyrite, a common copper iron sulfide mineral
What is biomining?
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
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