Activity

2025

• AGGREGATE RESOURCE RECONNAISSANCE MAPPING IN THE COASTAL PLAIN OF VIRGINIA
  19 D3. Integrated Research and Management in Coastal Plain, Back-Barrier, and Estuarine Systems
  Thursday, 20 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Alleghany A

2024

• GEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF ULTRAMAFIC AND MAFIC ROCKS IN VIRGINIA: PROSPECTS FOR CRITICAL MINERAL EXTRACTION AND CARBON MINERALIZATION
  36 Progress Towards Geologic CO2 Storage in the Eastern United States
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Victoria
• USING THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOTEK MULTI-SENSOR CORE LOGGER SYSTEM TO ANALYZE AND PRESERVE CORE FROM THE OLD HICKORY HEAVY MINERAL DEPOSIT, SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA
  53 Cores and Rocks from the Southeast Atlantic Continental Margin to Facilitate Interstate Correlation of Along-Strike Units: A Hands-On Poster Session to Support Symposium 2 (Posters)
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Top of the Plaza
• GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF EASTERN PIEDMONT ROCKS AND ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN SEDIMENTS ALONG THE FALL ZONE IN SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA
  29 Piedmont Geology in the Southern Appalachian Orogen: New Insights from Geologic Mapping, Geochemical, and Geochronological Studies (Posters)
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom
• EARTH MAPPING RESOURCES INITIATIVE: MINE WASTE INVENTORY FOR CRITICAL MINERAL POTENTIAL IN VIRGINIA
  14 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, 3-D Geological Models, Digital Mapping Techniques, Map Derivatives, and Digital Map Preparation (Posters)
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom

2023

• ECONOMIC HEAVY MINERALS IN SAND RESOURCES OFFSHORE OF VIRGINIA
  T255 Regional Characterization of Critical Mineral Potential
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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• STANDARDIZING A FIELD SCREENING PROTOCOL USING PORTABLE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE AND RADIATION SPECTROMETRY TO ASSESS CRITICAL MINERAL COMMODITIES IN HEAVY MINERAL PLACERS: HOW CAN WE BETTER STREAMLINE DECISIONS IN THE FIELD?
  23 Conventional and Unconventional Critical Mineral Resources in the Eastern United States
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lake Audubon
• MAPPING CRITICAL (HEAVY) MINERAL SOURCE ROCKS AND SINKS ALONG THE FALL ZONE IN VIRGINIA USING AIRBORNE MAGNETIC AND RADIOMETRIC DATA TO GUIDE GEOCHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SAMPLING
  23 Conventional and Unconventional Critical Mineral Resources in the Eastern United States
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lake Audubon

2022

• MARINE MINERAL SANDS ON VIRGINIA’S OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF – THE CASE FOR EXTRACTING CRITICAL MINERALS AS PART OF BEACH RESTORATION PROJECTS
  265 D3. Recent Advances in Economic Geology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• ECONOMIC MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES OF HEAVY MINERAL SANDS: INSIGHTS FROM THE EARTH MRI VIRGINIA FALL ZONE PLACER FOCUS AREA
  T4 Critical Minerals and Framework Geology: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Activities I
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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