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Appendix A: Mineral Resources and Society: A Review of the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resource Surveys Program Plan
Appendix A: Mineral Resources and Society: A Review of the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resource Surveys Program Plan
Pages 119-126
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represents a significant departure from the past, and its implementation is resulting in significant changes in the direction of USGS mineral resource activities. For example, the Plan highlights the greater emphasis to be placed on mineral-environmental assessments that provide predictions of the environmental consequences of mineral development as one consideration for land-use planning.
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The panel's confidence in the overall value of the MRSP reflects past mineral resource program successes, the conviction that important resource problems of national relevance will have to be addressed in the future, and the uniqueness of the USGS in terms of technical capability, scope, national jurisdiction, international cooperation, and credibility. The MRSP Plan describes important objectives and means to accomplish them.
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The following issues emerge as significant themes among the specific findings and recommendations: the Plan does not give adequate consideration to the continuing national need for mineral resource supply as a rationale for all aspects of the MRSP; the panel perceives an imbalance between the level of effort placed on quantitative assessment of undiscovered mineral deposits versus the level of effort placed on detailed mapping and data collection; the panel finds that basic research on geochemical and geological processes related to ore formation is a prerequisite for credible mineral resource estimates and environmental assessments; the panel recommends substantive changes in the Mitigation Studies Subprogram. SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS Specific Recommendation A: The MRSP should incorporate data and invite expertise from outside the USGS, to the greatest extent practical and constructive, particularly from industry, academia, and state agencies.
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Emphasize such elements as Discrimination Between Natural and Mining-Related Geochemical Distributions, to reflect the growing national and international importance of this activity. Specific Recommendation F: Increase collaboration with WRD staff to address such issues as chemical releases from mineral deposits, acid drainage prediction, and metal leaching.
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Specific Recommendation L: Evaluate the feasibility of replacing the Cooperative Industry and International Investigations element with a CRADA system, whereby industrial and foreign government users would provide funding toward needed MRSP research. Specific Recommendation M: The MRSP should be empowered, within budgetary limitations, to conduct selective mineral-deposits research in foreign terranes.
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