Earth MRI for Alaska critical minerals
USGS investing $6.75M for Last Frontier mapping, geophysics North of 60 Mining News – August 26, 2022
Last updated 9/3/2022 at 11:30am

Adrian Bender, U.S. Geological Survey
USGS scientist Jamey Jones carries out mapping and sampling during the 2021 Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) exploration of the Yukon-Tanana Upland region of Alaska.
Alaska is known to be a trove of the minerals and metals critical to every segment of the American economy. This critical mineral richness is despite the fact that Alaska is a vast state that remains largely underexplored. To help gain a better understanding of the Last Frontier State's potential to provide domestic supplies of the 50 critical minerals, the U.S. Geological Survey has allotted $...
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