United States Geological Survey
| United States Geological Survey link Website | |
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| Headquarters | Reston, Virginia, United States |
| Leader | USGS Director |
| Subgroups | USGS Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility, Earthquake Hazards Program, National Volcano Early Warning System, National Geomagnetism Program, Astrogeology Research Program, USGS-Stanford Ion Microprobe Laboratory, National Streamflow Information Program, National Water-Quality Assessment Program, National Wildlife Health Center |
| Staff | 8,670 |
Fracking
The USGS has declared that "fracking causes small earthquakes", but claims that "they are almost always too small to be a safety concern." [1]
Afghanistan
A 2007 USGS survey reported nearly $1 trillion in mineral deposits in Afghanistan[2], but as Global Research notes, "the matter of Afghanistan’s mineral riches, however, was not considered newsworthy at the time."[3] It was widely reported in Summer 2010. Some commentators have suggested that this is a large underestimate of the true wealth of the available minerals[4] while Global research dismisses it as "a useful smokescreen... more a trumped up number rather than an estimate".[3]
References
- ↑ http://www.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9833/3428
- ↑ http://www.mining.com/1-trillion-motherlode-of-lithium-and-gold-discovered-in-afghanistan/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-war-is-worth-waging-afghanistan-s-vast-reserves-of-minerals-and-natural-gas/19769
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghanistans-untapped-minerals-worth-3-trillion-2003616.html