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Almost 15,000 selected online resources/reports made available to clients, I2M Associates, geoscientists, and the general public worldwide with a focus on geoscientific and other matters of interest to I2M management.
I2M Consulting personnel also monitor hazardous field conditions around the world via our Field Alerts program, cybersecurity conditions on the Internet in our Security Alert program, and relevant bias in the Media in our Confronting Media Bias Alerts program.
Candidate papers, technical news items, classic reports, and new publications can be submitted to the I2M Web Portal editors for review. Those deemed worthy are summarized, abstracted, and/or reviewed with [Editorial comments...] and will be listed under What’s New.
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Resources relating to astrogeology, off-world natural resource exploration and development, planet defense, and associated news of space developments. Also including information related to off-world activities, such as the development of robotics, health issues of zero gravity, and to serious reports of extraterrestrial matters that may create unintended consequences for humans.
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Biomass and derived biofuels related resources...
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Resources for various services and companies of possible interest to clients, associates, and geoscientists.
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All Helium Resources and Uses migrated from the subcategory under Oil & Gas
Related to hydroelectric dams and pumped storage of water to create electrical or mechanical power.
The occurrence of hydrogen in the subsurface and use as an energy resource
The latest resources involving hydrogeology, geology, and the related environmental issues...
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To this must added recent ideas on society responses to future issues related to natural resource development and use.
Resources related to general mining subjects but not to nuclear, coal or other energy resources.
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International regulations related resources...
Risk Assessment subjects associated with natural occurrences or with those applicable to mining, oil & gas, or other industrial activities and their waste products.
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Latest 10 Resources
Calm Space released a video on the Fermi Paradox in June 2026. Where is everybody? It asks and explores. But it appears the universe is silent. With two hundred billion trillion stars and billions of potentially habitable planets, we should be detecting alien civilizations everywhere. But after sixty years of searching, we've found nothing. No radio signals. No signs of intelligent life. Just complete silence.
This is the Fermi Paradox, one of the most unsettling mysteries in science. The explanations range from hopeful to terrifying. Ma...
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Optic Expedition released an AI-generated video of significant interest regarding "human" development. Although Grok reliability is suspect, let's see if Perplexity, Claude or other advanced AI can support the elements presented in this video. See below.
For over a hundred years, these Sumerian tablets sat in pieces, broken and scattered, guarding whatever was pressed into them. Then someone fed the fragments to Grok, the AI, and asked it to do what no human ever could, read the parts that were lost. What it pulled out of that clay is the re... Read More... »
Purepoint Uranium presented this video in early December 2025. The uranium market is already in a supply deficit, but most investors can't see it yet. This video breaks down why official supply-demand charts look balanced while a real shortage exists beneath the surface, hidden by declining mine production and shrinking mobile inventory.
We'll explain in the video just how the usable uranium buffer is much smaller than publicly reported numbers suggest, why new supply can't arrive fast enough to fill the gap, and what signals investors sh...
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Hidayat reported in early April 2026 that the nuclear fuel-supply chain represents one of the most complex geological and engineering challenges in modern energy infrastructure. [But on the other hand, when environmental hydrogeologists take on ISR projects, they are more like groundwater remediation (pump-and-treat) projects than classic surface mining where open-pits and wastes can represent problems to local citizens].
Unlike traditional fossil fuel extraction where raw materials translate directly to end products, uranium production...
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Uranium Unleashed released a video on July 3 2026. The nuclear energy sector is facing a quiet structural crisis as traditional utilities under contract their annual replacement requirements for the 13th consecutive year. While artificial intelligence data centres drive surging electricity demand, evidenced by Meta locking in up to 7.8 gigawatts of nuclear power purchase agreements and Microsoft securing over 800 megawatts of dedicated reactor capacity in Q1 2026, a massive contracting gap has formed.
Over the past five years, global...
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Murphy and 55 co-authors reported in later June 2026 that using a Raman spectrometer onboard the Perseverance rover, there is a heterogeneous distribution of organic carbon within mudstones located in an ancient river valley on Mars.
Geologic context of the Bright Angel outcrop.
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS.
In the figure above:
(A) Location of Bright Angel in Jezero crater, Mars (the white line shows the path that the rover traversed and the pink star marks the landing site on the crater floor).
(B) Zoomed-in view of the...
Li and 4 co-authors reported in May 2026 that helium-rich unconventional natural gas resources have attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry. A pronounced local enrichment of helium (and uranium) has recently been identified in coal-derived unconventional natural gas in the Sanjiaobei block on the eastern margin of the Ordos Basin.
Integrated conceptual model of helium enrichment
in unconventional natural gas in the Sanjiaobei Block.
To clarify the main controls on helium enrichment in unconventional natural gas in...
New Insights into Uranium Source and Mineralization Process of the World-Class Jingchuan Sandstone-Hosted Uranium Deposit, Ordos Basin, China: Evidence from Geology, Carbonate Textures and Geochemistry - 2025 
Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Exploration, Mining, Marketing, & Acquisitions
Date posted: 06/29/26
Lin and 11 co-authors reported in late 2025 that: a) Jingchuan deposit features three types of carbonates; b) Carbonate petrology and geochemical data reveal the ore-forming process, and c) Mixing of oxidizing formation water and reducing fluids is key to uranium formation.
The world-class Jingchuan sandstone-type uranium deposit is situated in the Lower Cretaceous gray sandstone strata of the Luohe Formation, Ordos Basin, China, distinguished by its exceptionally thick orebodies (3–280 m) and extensive spatial distribution (about 2,000...
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Zhang and 6 co-authors reported in October 2025 that a large-scale sandstone-type uranium deposit, recently discovered within the petroleum field of the Jingchuan area on the southwestern margin of the Ordos Basin, exemplifies a classic case of uranium exploration success achieved through the analysis of petroleum geological data including borehole logs.
Hyperspectral mineral mapping (VNIR-SWIR) of the vertical sequences.
GR: natural gamma ray; Sme: smectite; Chl: chlorite; Ill: illite; Gym: gypsum;
Cal: carbonate; Red zone: uranium-mi...
Uranium Unleashed released this video in June 2026: China: The Global Leader in Construction:
1. The Unprecedented Scale of the Expansion: China is currently operating 62 reactors and constructing an additional 39+ units, totaling approximately 37.3 GWe. The 110 GWe Target: Under the 15th Five-Year Plan, China is targeting 110 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2030, with an ultimate aspirational policy goal of 200 GW by 2035.
If met, nuclear power could contribute roughly 10% of national generation, up from 4.5% today. The Approval Pipeline...
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