NBMG News

August 19, 2010

New at NBMG: OF03-4 (2nd edition, 2010) – Preliminary geologic map of the Oxley Peak area, Elko County, Nevada

by C.H. Thorman, W.E. Brooks, K.B. Ketner, R.F. Dubiel scale 1:24,000, $16.00 or free on the Web at:http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/sales/pbsdtls.php?sku=OF03-%204

August 19, 2010

In the News

NBMG Director and State Geologist, Jon Price, receives award from Geological Society of America (Nevada News, July 26) http://www.unr.edu/news/templates/?a=5503 Revised geologic time scale from USGS (July 20, 2010) http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2010/3059

August 19, 2010

New at NBMG: OF10-8 – NBMG Mining District File Collection with Index, Search Engine, and Other Nevada Mineral-and Energy-related Files (2nd edition)

compiled by Ronald H. Hess, Martha Henson, David A. Davis, Richard O. Meeuwig, Kristen A. Scott, and Karen Boldi, 2010, on portable hard drive, $150.00 http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/sales/pbsdtls.php?sku=OF10-8 This report, contained on a portable hard …

July 20, 2010

New at NBMG: Special Publication 27, Living with Earthquakes in Nevada

A Nevadan’s guide to preparing for, surviving, and recovering from an earthquake (3d ed., 2010), by Craig M. dePolo, Lucy K. Jones, Diane M. dePolo, and Susan Tingley $7.00 or free on the Web at http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/sp27.pdf

July 20, 2010

New NBMG Website and Shopping Cart Coming Soon!

View the developing new NBMG website at http://dev.nbmg.unr.edu/ More details on the start date will be coming soon. Please send any comments that you may have about the new website to webmaster@nbmg.unr.edu. We appreciate your feedback!

July 20, 2010

Figures from Geologic Terrane Map of Nevada—Plate 2 Available for Download

Open-File Report 10-4 (previously announced)Paleozoic and Mesozoic tectonic domains by A. Elizabeth Jones Crafford JPEG files for the figures on plate 2 are now available at http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/sales/pbsdtls.php?sku=OF10-4b

July 20, 2010

Directory of Nevada Mine Operations (January – December 2009) Now Available

From State of Nevada Dept. of Business & Industry, free on the Web at http://dirweb.state.nv.us/MSTS/minedirectory.pdf

July 7, 2010

NBMG Assistant Professor Candidate Talk Wednesday July 7, 2010

Wed. July 7, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. in Room 401, Scrugham Engineering-Mines Building, University of Nevada, Reno Corné Kreemer Candidate for Assistant Research Professor with NBMG-UNR from Nevada Geodetic Laboratory with the Nevada Bureau of Mines & G…

June 10, 2010

Nevada Digital Dirt Mapping Project

Slides from presentation given by Kyle House at the Digital Mapping Techniques Workshop in Sacramento, CA May 16-19, 2010.

June 2, 2010

Why is Nevada Geology so Exciting?

At the recent Geological Society of Nevada 2010 Symposium, NBMG Director and State Geologist, Jonathan Price, presented four main reasons that make geology in Nevada exciting: 1. the rocks and the resources in them,2. the hazards,3. the environmen…