Mineral Resource of the Month

The column "Mineral Resource of the Month", featuring the work of USGS mineral commodity specialists, now appears in the American Geological Institute's (AGI) magazine Earth at http://www.earthmagazine.org/, with selected articles online at the Mineral of the Month Archive. For more information about these and other mineral commodities, visit the USGS Commodity Statistics and Information site.

Antimony

David Guberman
January 18, 2015
Image Credit: PepperedJane.

Arsenic

George Bedinger
August 16, 2014
Image Credit: ©Elke Wetzig, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bromine

Emily K. Schnebele
September 6, 2015
Image Credit: French National Museum of the Middle Ages.

Gemstones

Donald W. Olson
July 23, 2015
Image Credit: ©Rob Lavinsky, CC-BY-SA-3.0.

Gold

Michael W. George
June 26, 2015
Image Credit: ©Rob Lavinsky, CC BY-SA-3.0.

Iron and Steel

Michael D. Fenton
February 3, 2014
Image Credit: Sara E. Pratt.

Iron oxide pigments

Arnold O . Tanner
May 29, 2015
Image Credit: ©хенрик, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mica

Jason Christopher Willett
November 22, 2014
Image Credit: ©James St. John, CC BY 2.0.

Niobium

John F. Papp
July 9, 2014
Image Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Peat

Lori E. Apodaca
July 26, 2014
Image Credit: ©markjhandel/CC-BY-2.0.

Phosphate Rock

Stephen M. Jasinski
December 2, 2013
Image Credit: ©Jason Parker-Burlingham, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

Selenium

Micheal W. George
May 12, 2014
Image Credit: Gabriela Ramirez Galindo/Center for International Forestry Research.

Silver

Florence C. Katrivanos
February 22, 2015
Image Credit: I, PHGCOM, CC-BY-SA-3.0.

Strontium

Joyce Ober
December 24, 2014
Image Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist David Rush.

Talc

Robert Virta and Brad Van Gosen
March 3, 2014
Image Credit: USGS; right: Minerals Education Coalition.

Thallium

David E. Guberman
November 4, 2013
Image Courtesy of James D. Hooker, Museum of Electric Lamp Technology.

Vermiculite

Arnold O. Tanner
September 16, 2014
Image Credit: ©Kenpei, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Wollastonite

Robert Virta and Brad Van Gosen
April 14, 2014
Image Courtesy New York State Museum, Albany, NY.

Zeolites

Robert Virta
October 1, 2014
Image Credit: ©Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 3.0.

• Another series of articles first appeared in the AGI magazine, Geotimes, in August 2002. The articles, as they originally appeared in Geotimes, are now available with permission of AGI. View the Geotimes article archive.
• USGS Mineral Commodity Information
• National Minerals Information Center