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Image: Small-scale Syncline near the Blackbird Cobalt-Copper Mine

Small-scale Syncline near the Blackbird Cobalt-Copper Mine

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Badahkshan: Points (2017 to 2018)

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Kabul: Points (2018)

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Nangarhar: Points (2017)

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Balkhab: Points (2018)

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Nuristan: Points (2017 to 2018)

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Shaida: Points (2017 to 2019)

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Takhar: Points (2017 to 2018)

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Zarkashan: Points (2014, 2017 to 2018)

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Panjshir Valley: Points (2017)

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A collection of diamonds recovered from mines sites along the Birim River in Ghana.

Special Geologic Studies: Artisanal and small-scale mining of conflict minerals

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Inventory of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Doshi-Shibar: Points (2018)

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Afghanistan Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) Areas (ver. 3.0, June 2021)

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Mapping the extent and methods of small-scale emerald mining in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan

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Detection and monitoring of small-scale diamond and gold mining dredges using synthetic aperture radar on the Kadéï (Sangha) River, Central African Republic

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Afghanistan artisanal and small-scale mining sector

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The Central African Republic Diamond Database—A geodatabase of archival diamond occurrences and areas of recent artisanal and small-scale diamond mining

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Spatial data of artisanal mining riverine dredges using three different Synthetic Aperture Radar detection approaches on the Madeira River, Brazil

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The influence of geomorphology on the role of women at artisanal and small-scale mine sites

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Mapping informal small-scale mining features in a data-sparse tropical environment with a small UAS

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Application of grade and tonnage deposit models; the search for ore deposits possibly amenable to small-scale mining

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Locations of small-scale diamond and gold dredges detected using Synthetic Aperture Radar on the Kadéï (Sangha) River, Central African Republic

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excavated hole in forest with hydraulic piping equipment and muddy water

Gold mining site along the Cuyuni River, Guyana

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Site manager of an artisanal and small-scale mining site showing a collection of diamonds.

USGS Scientists Help Address Conflict Mining

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Artisanal mining river dredge detection using SAR: A method comparison

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A deployment of broadband seismic stations in two deep gold mines, South Africa

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Multi-scale 46-year remote sensing change detection of diamond mining and land cover in a conflict and post-conflict setting

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Collage of USGS Maps.

Map showing mined areas of the Boulder-Weld coal field, Colorado

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Jessica DeWitt, Ph.D.

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Point locations of brick kilns in Kabul, Afghanistan, derived from 1965, 2004, 2011, and 2018 satellite imagery

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