Arizona Geology

CNN's SciTechBlog says the UA's Phoenix Mars Lander is sure to be further extended after the first extension runs out at the end of ...

Dave's Landslide Blog site has a large number of photos and a description of the deadly landslide in Cairo in today: " The death ...

USGS' Water Science for Schools was selected as one of the 10 best government Web sites by Government Computer News, based on informat...

There is a thoughtful and provocative piece on mining and the Rosemont copper mine in particular at the Tucson Observer blog , entitled ...

Today, the first Sunday in September, is International Rock Flipping Day ! So, for all of you (me included) who have not yet flipped ove...

The GeoEye-1 satellite launched yesterday will simultaneously collect both 16-inch (0.41-meter) ground resolution black-and-white images and...

NPR's Living On Earth broadcast a story about John McCain's record in Arizona on mining and public lands issues and another on his...

Standard & Poor's expects persistent strength in metals prices including $750 gold and $2.75 copper over the next few years. But S...

The Pinal County Governmental Alliance reports that California and Nevad have stored 2 million acre-feet of water in aquifers, most of it i...

Shale.tv is a new internet television coming soon to your computer, totally dedicated to content about shale, especially the Barnett Shale,...

All the measurements of Martian soil made by a conductivity probe on the Phoenix Lander are consistent with extremely dry soil. There are n...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added the Iron King Mine - Humboldt Smelter site in Dewey-Humboldt, Ariz., to the federal Superfund...

Last night's talk at the Arizona Geological Society meeting in Tucson by UA grad student Alyson Thibodeau used isotopic geochemistry to ...

State, federal, and local authorities are talking seriously now about a flood warning system for parts of the Grand Canyon, in the wake of ...

A Texas state court has ruled that Mexican mining company Grupo Mexico denied punitive damages claims made by Asarco and that Grupp paid a ...

A paper co-authored by UA scientist Malcolm Hughes, coming out next week appears to settle the political debate over the so-called 'ho...

The US EPA's Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB) published its 11th report to the President and Congress this past March (thanks t...

The price of copper has fallen to around $3.40 per pound with predictions of further declines to $3.20 in the near-term, because of a falter...

Monsoon season in southern Arizona is wrapping up, but you couldn't tell that from the rains this Labor Day weekend. Phoenix is reeling ...

These Martian clouds are a bit wispier than the monsoon clouds that dumped 3+ inches of rain at our house over the weekend, but they are sti...