Arizona Geology

In the 126 years since the first Territorial Geologist was appointed in 1881, the Arizona Geological Survey (under a variety of names) has a...

The message I came away with from the Arizona Geothermal Working Group meeting in Tucson last Friday, is that geothermal resources are [abov...

Arizona was the largest mineral producing state in the nation again in 2006 according to the Mineral Commodity Summary report recently re...

Geologist and former Presidential Science Advisor Dr. Frank Press told a wonderful story the other night about President Jimmy Carter. We...

The Congressional field hearing in Tucson on Feb 24 chaired by US Rep. Raul Grijalva is viewed by the nation’s mining industry as the openi...

Last week I was in Washington DC with a number of other State Geologists on our semi-annual rounds of meetings with federal agencies, congre...

The National Resource Report on “Colorado River Basin Water Management” issued last week got national attention. The study used tree ring ...

Recent reports of uranium in monitoring wells near the Sierrita copper mine in southern Arizona have raised concerns from some in the public...

The Arizona House (HB2323) and Senate (SB1338) have now each passed revisions to last year's real estate disclosure bill, including eli...

Testimony from the six invited witnesses at Saturday’s Congressional field hearing on the proposed Rosemont copper mine and the 1872 Mining ...

The Congressional field hearing in Tucson yesterday on the proposed Rosemont copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains and the 1872 Mining...

For the 12 th year in a row, AZGS recently hosted the Arizona Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists and the AIPG’s n...

Congress is holding a field hearing in Tucson in Saturday, February 24 (details below), on the proposed Rosemont copper mine in the Santa ...

The prices of high-end minerals are reportedly rising 10% a year or more. What’s driving this? Well, our inside expert who I dub “Deep ...

Last Wednesday night as vendors set up their booths in the Tucson Convention Center in preparation of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show...

Last night, in celebration of Charles Darwin’s 198 th birthday, “Darwin Day” events were held in a couple dozen cities around the county. ...

The official 53 rd annual Tucson Gem and Mineral Show ends today, along with most of the other 49 satellite shows that have been set up aro...

If you’re buying a home in Arizona, you may be sold a report telling you that there are no earth fissures affecting the property, but that m...

The AZGS budget will be voted on by the legislature's joint budget subcommittee at 9am on Monday, Jan. 29. At last week's budget pre...

At last week's presentation of the legislative and executive (i.e., governor's) budget proposals for AZGS, there was brief but anima...