Rare Earth Element Mines, Deposits, and Occurrences in the World

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Other Sources, RTGs, Sea Water, Thorium, Helium-3, & Fusion Research / Rare Earth Elements

Date posted: 04/15/13

The USGS Mineral Resources Program (MRP) provides scientific information for objective resource assessments and unbiased research results on mineral potential, production, consumption, and environmental effects. The MRP is the sole Federal source for this information. The MRP funds research to address two major program functions: Research and assessment provides information for land planners and decision makers about where mineral commodities are known and suspected in the Earth crust and about the environmental consequences of the presence of those commodities. MRP supports an on-going effort to coordinate the development of national-scale geologic, geochemical, geophysical, and mineral resource databases and the migration of existing databases to standard models and formats that are available to both internal and external users.Data collection, analysis, and dissemination describes current production and consumption of about 100 mineral commodities, both domestically and internationally for approximately 180 countries. The unique expertise developed by MRP over many decades in response to mineral-resource-related issues is now in demand to support applications such as public health research and remediation of natural hazards.