Location - Colorado School of Mines, Berthoud Hall Room 241, Golden, Colorado.

Technical Presentation:

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Colorado School of Mines Van Tuyl Lecture Series - Spring 2012

Lectures held Thursdays 4-5 p.m. Refreshments served prior to lecture. Berthoud Hall, rm. 241.
For more information call 303-273-3800.

For the schedule see CSM Department of Geology website - http://geology.mines.edu/calendar/Van_Tuyl.html , or call 303-273-3800.

Colorado School of Mines Student Chapter of SEG

January 18. Karen Kelly and Eric Anderson (USGS). "Geology and Geophysical Signature of the giant Pebble Cu-Au-Mo prophyry deposit,Alaska."
Talk will be held from 12-1 pm, Berthoud Hall (room TBA).

Colorado Scientific Society

Berthoud Hall, Colorado School of Mines. Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month, at 7:00 p.m..
For information contact - Lisa Rukstales. E-mail: lrukstales@usgs.gov

The Denver Mining Club meets at the Country Buffet north of Bowles on Wadsworth (at 8100 W. Crestline Ave.) on
Mondays.(Purchase of buffet lunch required).
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (+/-) VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME! For more information call Dick Beach - 303.986.6535

February 6. Cathleen Norman, Project Director, The Donning Company Publishers. "Mining Architecture: Structures, Miner's Cottages, Boarding Houses."

February 13. David M. Abbott, Jr., Consulting Geologist. "Shortcomings of the CRIRSCO Family of Reporting Codes."

February 20. No Meeting. President's Day.

February 27. Mark Greaves, Hidee Mine. "Mines of Death Valley, Calif."

University of Colorado, Geological Sciences
All talks are held in the Benson Earth Sciences lecture hall (180) every Wednesday at 4pm unless otherwise noted.
Refreshments are served at 3:30 on the 3rd floor. For more information see: http://www.colorado.edu/geolsci/colloquium.htm

February 1. Jerry Magloughlin, CSU. "The hottest fault rocks: friction melts and pseudotachylytes."

February 8. David Bell, ASU. "A mantle perspective on the post-Gondwana tectonomagmatic evolution of southern Africa."

February 15. James Syvitski, CU-Boulder. "The Anthropocene - a new geologic epoch?"

February 22. Zach Sharp, University of New Mexico. "A Unifying Hypothesis for Lunar Volatiles."

February 29. Geoff Albers, LDEO. "Imaging with Geophysics: The Heat and Water Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones", GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecture.

March 7. Dolores Robinson, U of Alabama, CIRES visitor. "Controls on the evolution of the Himalayan thrust belt."

Colorado State University Geoscience Seminars. Seminars are located in Room 320 Warner College of Natural Resources Building on Monday afternoon, and will begin at 4:00 pm unless noted otherwise. For questions, call (970) 491-5661.

February 6. Dr. Kenneth Sims. University of Wyoming. TBA.

February 13. Dr. Guangping Xu. AIRIE Program-CSU, Geological Survey of Norway. "Using Re-Os geochronology to refine the geological time scale."

February 20. TBA.

February 27. TBA.

USGS Central Region Colloquium Series

Presentations are open to the public and are given on Thursday afternoons from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Denver Federal Center's Building 25, Lecture Hall (please note, this is a new building location for this lecture series.)

January 31. Marieke Dechesne, (Denver Museum of Nature and Science & USGS). "The Denver and Colorado Headwaters Basins: a look at Laramide deformation by observations from both sides of the Front Range, Colorado."

February 14. Pete DeCelles (U of Arizona). TBA.

February 28. Richard Goldfarb (USGS Denver). "Gold metallogeny and global tectonics."

Park County Mining Association Meeting
Park County Association meets at the Alma Town Hall, 59 East Buckskin Road.

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Conferences, Conventions, etc..

February 21. Legislative Reception - "The Mineral and Energy Economy in Colorado."
Time: 5:00 to 7:30 pm. Note Date Change from Feb 7 to the 21st.
Venue: University Club of Denver - College Room.
1673 Sherman Street
Denver, CO 80203
The American Institute of Professional Geologists is pleased to invite you to a Legislative Reception created to engage, inform, and educate legislators on the importance of the mineral and energy industries in the creation of jobs and economic sustainability in the State.
Please RSVP by going to http://www.aipgcolorado.com/ to purchase your advance tickets. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Sponsorship and Exhibitor Space is available.
Sponsorship and Exhibitor Space is available.
For more information contact:
Larry Cerrillo
Office: 303-674-6484 Cell: 303-921-1612
E-mail: cerrillo1@mindspring.com

February 19-22. SME Annual Convention - "Mine to Market: Now It's Global."
Venue: Washington State Convention & Trade Center.
800 Convention Place, Seattle, WA 98101
E-mail - meetings@smenet.org
Phone: (303) 979-3461

March 4-7. PDAC 2012.
Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Center, South Building, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Phone: 416-362-1969. Fax: 416-362-0101. E-mail: ascriver@pdac.cawww.pdac.ca
Short Courses -
Aboriginal awareness training workshop.
Gold in Precambrian shields.
Investment fundamentals: Understanding mineral exploration and resource development and the relationships to company stock prices.
The science of communication: Strategic communication for the mineral exploration industry.
A practical guide to land management in Canada.
Introduction to health and safety for explorationists.
From the core barrel to a resource estimate: A review of current best practices.
Resource exploration investing: What you need to know to be a disciplined speculator.
Directors' duties: An overview for mid and junior public mining company executives and directors.
NI 43-101: The new version and what you need to know.
DMEC workshop series: Exploring undercover in a greenfield setting - the Quesnel terrain in east-central British Columbia Wednesday, March 7 1:00.

March 19-22. 114th National Western Mining Conference at the Mile High Mining Hub.
Venue: Westin Tabor Center, Denver, Colorado.
For more information see: www.coloradomining.org .
Registration: http://www.coloradomining.org/nu_conferences.php

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USGS Resource Publications

The links to recent online USGS REE information shown below were provided by Pete Modreski.
USGS Fact Sheet 087-02, Rare Earth Elements - Critical Resources for High Technology by Gordon B. Haxel, James B. Hedrick, and Greta J. Orris; 2002, 4 pp. http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2002/fs087-02/fs087-02.pdf
A newer and much more detailed USGS report is -
The Principal Rare Earth Elements Deposits of the United States - A Summary of Domestic Deposits and a Global Perspective. By Keith R. Long, Bradley S. Van Gosen, Nora K. Foley, and Daniel Cordier
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2010 - 5220; 2010, 96 + vi pages. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5220
This online link goes to a summary description, from which you can download the pdf of the complete report (4.2 Mb, 104 total pages). The report contains descriptions, with some maps and photos, of the principal known rare earth deposits in the U.S., covering some 29 deposits or regions of deposits.
And of course, we have additional usage and statistical information posted online about rare earths in our mineral commodities web pages. http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earths

New Publication

Great Basin Evolution and Metallogeny
Geological Society of Nevada 2010 Symposium
Editors: Roger Steininger and William Pennell

This two volume set has over 60 original and fully refereed technical peer reviewed papers. Topics cover geological analysis and testing of rocks, ores, minerals and elements correlated with gold mineralization and mining in the Great Basin region of the United States. Detailed geological data acquired from advanced techniques is presented for dozens of proven and currently explored mineral-rich areas in Nevada, California, Idaho, Utah, Washington and Alaska, Mexico and Chile. A wealth of analytic information, including full-color charts and maps, is presented on working gold, silver and copper mines opened or re-opened within the last 10 years, along with geological formations identified as promising targets for future gold discoveries.

For pricing or to place an order see -
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