Um…ok.. oh wow www.mining.com/web/sherritt...

Getting rid of the NEPA required public comment period and this company resubmitting their applications afterwards is a perfect example of how the US government’s mining push is putting the “social license to operate” for mining companies at risk. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

Google’s AI can’t even give you the correct answer. Time to find a new search engine.

Scholarship opportunity! The Jeanne E. Harris Chrysalis Scholarship provides degree-completion funding for women geoscience graduate students whose education has been significantly interrupted by life circumstances. tinyurl.com/4x2mb9d6

What a coincidence to see this pop up after I posted about sand mining not long ago

They bought a house only to have toxic oil field brine from an improperly capped oil well to seep into their home.

We rarely talk about sand mining, but we really should!

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

US House GOP & Dems have compromised on 5-year transportation bill. Draft bill includes a $150 annual fee on electric vehicles ($35 for plugins). No fee on gas-powered cars. Though not huge, this is another disincentive to shift to EVs in a country where the EV market share is low & declining.

Good opinion piece that I agree with and a good read if you can access it. TLDR: Failing to secure a social license to operate will cause projects to be delayed or canceled. The push from the US government is probably making things worse. www.mining.com/op-ed-blind-...

This article had me until it got to the part about pulling thousands of gallons of water a day out of the air to run entire mine sites www.mining.com/water-shorta...

If you're looking for a cost effective way to reduce your local mosquito population that doesn't affect other species, please check out the mosquito larva trap method! Thread for how-to and more info!

The critical minerals story nobody seems to be following in Canada is what the USA has done to Cuba and Canada’s Sherritt International. The place where I learned much about metals and minerals. Sherritt has a refinery just outside Edmonton. It started up in 1954. #yeg @sostheneung.bsky.social

The Trump administration is digging coal miners’ graves.

I did not realized that the commissioner of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission had been fired. They also fired the entire Pittsburgh office and closed it, so now there are only 2 offices (DC and Denver)

More US critical mineral news: US tariffs on steel, inflation caused by the war with Iran, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will add $80-$120 million to the costs to build Thacker Pass Lithium mine in Nevada www.mining.com/lithium-amer...

Apparently the people behind this hard push for rare earth minerals (at least for the DoD) is a group of ex-Wall Streeters whose goal is to crack China’s hold on rare earths www.mining.com/web/pentagon...

Malachite, azurite, chalcopyrite, covellite, bornite, and cuprite

What I mean by this is that the US is not really working on securing a supply chain for all the minerals it has deemed “critical”, mostly just rare earth minerals. They should be investing in things like nickel and cobalt too.

What I mean by this is that the US is not really working on securing a supply chain for all the minerals it has deemed “critical”, mostly just rare earth minerals. They should be investing in things like nickel and cobalt too.

Just thinking about the recent push for funding critical minerals projects by the US government, but it’s almost all been for rare earth minerals and a small amount for graphite and tungsten and then basically nothing for everything else.

North Dakota’s choice for their new state geologist is a good one. Congratulations @boydpaleo.bsky.social!

New version of the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 just dropped

The article misses a key point which is that, now that the identity of these designer particles is public, it's clear they don't make much sense as an SAI material.

doug burgum just confirmed in comments to the house natural resources committee that the trump admin will appeal the court ruling striking down its anti-solar and anti-wind permitting actions @heatmap.news

Half a nuclear plant! Seriously the Shift Key episode where @jessedjenkins.com walked through how to get a gut feel for the size of energy projects is so useful in reading data center stories

*Gesticulates wildly at public roads*

We’re doing a live Ask Me Anything on Reddit with the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory. 🌋 It starts at 11am Today (Tuesday) but the link is up now for you to start answering questions. Lots of amazing scientists are joining us. www.reddit.com/r/AMA/s/i8JF...

re: foundations, a few years ago some engineers came to me, perplexed. They were analyzing mineral splits for REEs from a random beach sand they had collected, but not finding any. They had wasted $$ and time analyzing the exact wrong splits, as they had no understanding of mineralogy ⚒️🧪

I really need to document how I send my kids to school no fever but then they magically get a fever at school that is gone by the time I get them home

Newest grift to make women feel bad about their natural bodies has dropped!

Playing SkyCards really gives you an idea of just how many private jets are up in the sky at all times

My youngest had an accident involving a sharp pair of toenail clippers that resulted in him tracking blood all over the carpet and now my internet search history includes “how to get blood out of carpet”

Wait for it .... 11 seconds and BOOM! Some breathtaking footage from Fuego 🇬🇹 and @boisestate.bsky.social scientists in this great science update on infrasound sensors. eos.org/science-upda...

Chevron would get a break in taxes, state has to pay the tax abatement, and it brings in only 25 permanent jobs 😐

East Potomac Golf Links isn't just a golf course — it's part of a critical bird migration corridor. After the Trump administration ended the lease of the nonprofit that was managing the course, will years of efforts to preserve and protect wildlife habitats be erased?

Oh no. I have discovered SkyCards.

*long exasperated sigh*

Which minerals could compete this September? Nominations are open! www.mineralcup.org/nominations All nominations are read. Providing reasons why a particular mineral is appealing makes us more likely to select it.

Ugh, it said km not mi so that makes it near Columbus I guess

I just read that Rare Earths Americas has a monazite sand REE project in Georgia (US). Their website says that it’s 110mi SW of Atlanta. That’s not even close to Atlanta. It’s closer to Columbus. Is it near Cuthbert? Albany? Those are like the only places that far SW of ATL and still in GA

Ok Abigail but that’s not what we all want to hear right now 😐

Fuck you Virginia Supreme Court. We voted to redistrict. If you didn’t like it, you could have stopped the vote before it happened.

Did Gemini write this?

I just got followed by a gold mining company and 1) I didn’t know there were any on here. Surprising! And 2) I am currently seeking new opportunities 😆

I need an ultrasound and I went to make an appointment but the first appointment is 2 weeks out 😑

Last fall, this deep sinkhole appeared at one of our field sites, with ground collapse happening in just a few weeks. This is what abrupt permafrost thaw looks like, with implications for soil stability, erosion, and methane emissions. Will be curious to see what happens here this summer.

Most of our fertilizer comes from Canada, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. There are a lot of countries that send us more fertilizer than China. So wtf do they have to do with this? (Don’t answer that. I already know)

Either Florence Bascom or Marie Tharp

Interestingly, the replies are a majority of people who primarily do video content. So far no podcasters, no newsletters/bloggers, a couple of book writers. Almost no one doing microblogging (e.g., Bluesky). It's pretty eye opening, even for a limited sample size.