| Goal: Enhance economic development and growth. |
| The USGS role is to determine the location, quantity, and quality of nonrenewable resources both internationally and domestically; determine the environmental effects of resource extraction and use; and improve assessments of resource potential, making possible the formulation of the best strategies for development of future resource supplies. |
| In an unprecedented cooperative effort with Alaskan, Canadian, and Russian organizations, the USGS has just completed a series of maps providing locations and narrative summaries of geologic features and settings for mineral deposits in mainland Alaska, Canada, and the Russian Far East. These maps correlate the occurrence of known deposits and mineralized belts across the northern Pacific and provide information critical to the exploration for new deposits. The first of these maps has been published by the USGS (Open-File Report 96-727) in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Canada; joint publication of other maps is expected. This unique data set promotes trade, joint exploration ventures, and international scientific cooperation. |
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| USGS, Russian, and Alaskan State field party at Democrat Iode gold mine, East-Central Alaska. From left to right: Warren Nokleberg (USGS, Menlo Park), Ilya Rozenblum (ROSKOMNEDRA, Magadan), Stanislav Byalobzhesky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Manadan), Roman Eremin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan). amd Thomas Bundtzen (Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks). |
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