Arizona Geology

Gov. Brewer was the main witness at the hearing held by the Congressional Western Caucus yesterday in Phoenix. The topic was disagreements ...

The Havasupai Tribe has joined with a number of environmental groups to support the Secretary of Interior's 20-year ban on mineral explo...

Gov. Brewer yesterday signed SB1299, the reauthorization of AZGS in statute, for another 10 years. Thanks to all of our stakeholders who se...

I heard last week that Rosemont Copper was developing a plan to use LED lighting for its proposed copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains, ...

Two upcoming public meetings on proposed potash mining in the Holbrook basin have been moved to larger facilities in St. Johns and Snowflake...

There's an interesting item in the Canadian news that Oracle Mining Corp. announced that it has "entered into a non-binding, ind...

The AZGS exhibit booth at the Tucson Festival of Books has been mobbed this weekend. Visitors started coming by at least an hour before t...

The Arizona Daily Star ran a story the other day headlined " Fracking likely caused Ohio quakes officials say ." The problem is ...

Another new USGS report examines the habitat of 166 plant species across the southwest and predicted future changes in habitat distribution...

A new USGS professional paper (co-authored by AZGS geologist Dr. Phil Pearthree) proposes the Chemehuevi Fm as a formal lithostratigraphic ...

The nonferrous metals mining industry "aggregate exploration total jumped 44% in 2010 and a further 50% in 2011, more than doubling fro...

NASA put out a news release describing an amazing dust devil on Mars imaged by the UA's HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Observe...

We just discovered that my photo of AZGS geologist Ann Youberg examining debris flows from Flagstaff's Schultz wildfire, was showcased o...

An email from the Northwest Mining Association was forwarded, informing their members that NWMA filed a complaint in federal district court ...

EPA officials from San Francisco have been in Tucson the past couple of days to review the proposed Rosemont copper mine in the Santa Rita M...

American Bonanza announced that they shipped their first gold production from the Copperstone mine , about 10 miles north of Quartzite, Ariz...

Grand Canyon Trust, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Bureau of Land Management, Northern Arizona University, University of Arizona, U.S. ...

The University of Nottingham has produced a set of videos explaining each of the elements in the Periodic Table, including one for copper. ...

The 48th Annual Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, May 2-4, with field trips before and after...

The first public meeting on potash mining in the Holbrook area brought out hundreds of residents and many from throughout the region last ni...