Arizona Geology

The U.S. Dept. of Energy completed removal of the first one million tons of uranium tailings from along the Colorado River near Moab last ...

The February 26 cover of Science is provided by Olaf Zielke and Ramon Arrowsmith in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU.  It a...

National Groundwater Awareness Week starts today. Or tomorrow, depending which page on the National Ground Water Association web site you w...

The East Valley Tribune tells the story of the Kent Decree, issued by Judge Edward H. Kent of the District Court of the Territory of Arizo...

NOAA's prototype Web site for the new Climate Service is now online with a Global Climate Dashboard, that allows you to look at a var...

Andrew's Geology Blog has updated his online compilation of geologic maps for all 50 states that he started 10 years ago.   He's ...

 The Central Arizona Project has a YouTube channel that includes a video of Tom Harbour, who's with the Central Arizona Groundwater Repl...

The January special issue of Icarus offers 21 papers on results from the Univ. of Arizona-managed HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissan...

Will Wilkinson, VP for Exploration with Phoenix-based Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, is completing his term as president of SME and gav...

Attendance at the just completed SME annual convention held in Phoenix may have been lower than some of the vendors hoped for, but local con...

"Flooding, rock falls and landslides, sink holes and near-record snowfall" from winter storms are blamed by ADOT for recent damage...

The Green Valley News has reported on concerns raised by local water companies and environmental groups about Arizona HB2617, a bill that wo...

 The fault segment that ruptured this week in Chile was identified in a paper last year as having strain buildup that, in a 'worst-case...

An article in this months issue of Mining Engineering reports that per capita consumption of sand and gravel aggregate in 2006 in the metrop...

For the past couple of years there's been a lot of chatter about the idea of covering mine tailings with solar panels. Well, at the SM...

This weekend's heavy rains across the state after a wetter than normal winter so far, are keeping everyone alert to landslides and flood...

The El Niño rains have saturated the ground in southeastern Arizona, and new rainfall flows off quickly, producing hazardous road conditions...

The annual national meeting of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) opened at the Phoenix Convention Center yesterday w...

House Bill 2617 is becoming more like a mining omnibus with the addition of amendments that create a Mining Advisory Council (ARS 41-4601) ...

Chile is the world's largest biggest copper producer .   Saturday's giant earthquake in Chile was well south of most of that nation...