By National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Committee on Earth Resources, Committee to Review the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resources Program
The committee assesses the USGS's responses to a 1996 application overview, evaluates the minerals details group, and examines how the program's undertaking and imaginative and prescient could evolve to satisfy the nation's destiny wishes over the subsequent decade.
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4. How should the program’s vision and activities evolve to meet the nation’s future needs over the next decade? The committee consists of 10 members drawn from the mining and minerals industry, environmental consulting, academia, state agencies, and the Geological Survey of Canada. Biographical sketches of the committee members appear in Appendix B. One member was also a member of the 1996 NRC committee. C. The committee was briefed by and received written information from USGS managers and scientists, federal land managers, and mineral resource and environmental experts from industry, nonprofit organizations, academia, and state and federal government agencies (Appendix C).
STUDY AND REPORT In 1996 the NRC reviewed the USGS’s MRSP plan. S. Geological Survey’s Mineral Resource Surveys Program Plan (see Appendix A), were used by the USGS in redirecting the program. Shortly after the review was completed, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Mines was abolished and that agency’s minerals information function was transferred to the USGS. The minerals information function, now called the Minerals Information Team, was incorporated into the new MRP. Six years following its 1996 review of the USGS’s minerals program, the NRC was asked to examine the USGS’s actions with respect to the 1996 NRC recommendations and incorporation of the minerals information function and consider future aspects of the Mineral Resources Program.
The MRP five-year plan points to deficiencies in expertise and outlines specific actions to correct these deficiencies: • Attract staff with expertise in low-temperature aqueous geochemistry, database development and management, industrial minerals, mineral economics, and GIS and spatial analysis. • Obtain expertise in quantitative mineral resources assessment and industrial ecology. • Provide training for existing staff to develop skills, knowledge, and expertise consistent with present and future core competency needs.