Introduction to the I2M Web Portal
This I2M Web Portal is made available to clients, I2M Associates, geoscientists, and the general public worldwide with a focus on geoscientific and other matters of interest to I2M management. Searches can be conducted using single words, phrases or exact phrases (if you put them in quotes), for example: a simple phrase might be "Russian interests in U.S. uranium" whereas an exact phrase is "critical minerals".
I2M Consulting personnel also monitor hazardous field conditions around the world via our Field Alerts program, cybersecurity conditions on the Internet in our Security Alert program, and relevant bias in the Media in our Confronting Media Bias Alerts program.
Candidate papers, technical news items, classic reports, and new publications can be submitted to the I2M Web Portal editors for review. Those deemed worthy are summarized, abstracted, and/or reviewed with [Editorial comments...] and are included in this database appearing under What’s New. Some technical news announcements, short articles, or summaries are captured in total because they are deemed important in case they are later removed by publishers. They will remain as records in the I2M Web Portal database indefinitely.
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This database contains 12,450 records as of February 1, 2023. Additional details are available at About the I2M Web Portal.
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Society conflicts, and training issues involving Artificial Intelligence, various Agencies, Colleges, Universities... as well as those related to Non-Science Issues (Creationism, Intelligent Design, etc.), plus related U.S. and world economic issues.
Resources relating to astrogeology, off-world natural resource exploration and development, planet defense, and associated news of space developments. Also including information related to off-world activities, such as the development of robotics, health issues of zero gravity, and to serious reports of extraterrestrial matters that may create unintended consequences for humans.
Asteroids and Comets, Astrophysicists/Astrogeologists and their Work, Extraterrestrial Matters, Lunar Activities, Mars Activity, Other Planets and Planetoids, Pluto Activities, Robots and Robotics and Space-Craft Designs, Solar Activities - Past and Present, Space Elevator, Space Fight Activities, Propulsion Systems, Power Supplies, Special Satellite News, The NASA James Web Telescope, Titan - The Large Moon of Saturn, Venus Activity
Biological resources relating to natural-resource development, biomedical research, environmental remediation, critters of the past, and conservation.
Biomass and derived biofuels related resources...
Climate Change (Global Warming or Cooling) resources and related issues, both political and technical, including CO2 sequestration, and Anthropocene issues.
Resources for various services and companies of possible interest to clients, associates, and geoscientists.
Resources relating to mining and environmental topics on natural resource development and industrial remediation.
Resources relating to oil & gas, water, environmental associated regulations, and litigation issues.
Resources from various related U.S. government agencies and state resources
Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Budgets and Spending, National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), State Resources, TCEQ - Texas, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), US Geological Survey (USGS)
Various useful resources such as related research journals, technical tools, databases, glossaries...
Geo- and hydrochemistry resources relating to oil & gas development and the various associated fields of interest.
Geophysics, Environmental, Geological, Geotech subjects that apply to energy, mining and environmental issues of the day, and the associated applications of interest to I2M management.
Geospatial resources relating to oil & gas development and the associated energy, mining and environmental uses and applications.
Geothermal energy resources and associated issues...
Health and safety resources related to traveling overseas, mining, oil and gas development and production and environmental projects. Also includes cyber-security issues.
Related to hydroelectric dams and pumped storage of water to create electrical or mechanical power.
The latest resources involving hydrogeology, geology, and the related environmental issues...
Resources with distinct international impacts that may or may not have applications in the U.S.
To this must added recent ideas on society responses to future issues related to natural resource development and use.
Resources related to general mining subjects but not to nuclear, coal or other energy resources.
Critical Mineral Resources, Deep Sea Mining, Gold-Silver Exploration & Mining Projects, Lithium, Potash, Halite, & P2O5 Mining Projects, Mineral Exploration Activities - General, Off-World Exploration, Mining, & Technology, Other Metals, Other Non-Metals, Silver Exploration & Mining, Wastes & Environmental Issues
Information related nuclear power plants, nuclear power generation of electricity, associated economics, SMRs
Includes all oil and gas-related resources, i.e., gas hydrates, oil sand, tar sands, etc.
Local, national, and international geological societies and associations.
This category includes discussions on rare earth deposits, mining and associated economic assessments
International regulations related resources...
Renewable energy related resources...
Risk Assessment subjects associated with natural occurrences or with those applicable to mining, oil & gas, or other industrial activities and their waste products.
Solar energy related resources...
Toxicological-related resources associated with natural occurrences or those applicable to mining, oil & gas, or other industrial activities and waste products.
Uranium (nuclear minerals) exploration, development and related environmental resources and issues...
Exploration, Mining, Marketing, & Acquisitions, Mapping and Geospatial Information, Nuclear Power - Economics, Design, & Industry, Other, RTGs, Thorium, Helium-3, & Fusion Research, Recovery, Remediation and other Mining-Related Technology, Related Environmental Issues, Yellowcake and Fuel Processing Processing
Wind energy related resources...
Latest 10 Resources
U.S. EIA on Nuclear Power and Uranium Current Issues and Trends - 2024 
Nuclear Power Industry
Date posted: 04/25/24
US EIA released the April Monthly Energy Review om April 25, 2024 of recent and historical U.S. energy statistics. Included are statistics on total energy production, consumption, stocks, trade, and energy prices; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, and renewable energy; carbon dioxide emissions; and data unit conversions.
Release of the MER is in keeping with responsibilities given to EIA in Public Law 95–91 (Department of Energy Organization
Act), which states, in part, in Section 205(a)(2):
“The Ad...
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Yancey opined in mid-2023 that Purdue University, a North Carolina steel company, a Texas chemical plant, an Indonesian ammonia factory and lots of others. Here’s an overview of the growing interest in the SMR technology.
The LENOWISCO study looked at seven potential sites in Southwest
Virginia, as well as at several different types of SMRs. Sample designs
...
Get access to the Geologize online courses, especially "Practical Geocommunication 3.0". The American Geosciences Institute (AGI), in partnership with the AAPG Foundation, is offering members of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) and other AGI member societies access to some programs. The courses will provide lessons, quizzes, assignments, and direct interaction with the course instructor, Dr. Haydon Mort, through forums.
It is vital to effectively communicate geoscience to the public and other stakeholders and the course pr...
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Milidragovic and five co-authors reported in 2015 that the Otish Basin of central Québec hosts over thirty uranium prospects, including the Camie River prospect that is located near the unconformable contact between the graphite-bearing, metamorphic basement of Archean age and the overlying basinal sedimentary rocks of the Otish Supergroup.
Geological map of the Otish Basin (modified from Lesbros-Piat-Desvial, 2014),
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Saribudak reported in mid-April 2024 that over 70% of Houston Geological Society members live in Harris County, Texas and many of those members are interested to learn more about the geology of the area. It is easy to see how geologic processes shape the landscape of Harris County after episodic events such as hurricanes or flooding, but other geologic processes such as faulting and subsidence are subtly at work over geologic timescales.
Map of well-documented faults in Harris County, ...
Davis reported on mid-April 2024 that SMR component manufacturer BWX Technologies (BWXT) will invest $80 million in equipment and expansions in Cambridge and Kitchener that are expected to create more than 200 jobs.
Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith speaks during an announcement at BWXT
in Cambridge. The company is investing $80 million in an expansion and new
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Brazilian Critical Minerals Limited announced a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the Ema and Ema East projects (collectively Ema), forming part of the Company´s wholly owned REE projects, Apuí, Amazon, Brazil at a cut-off of 500 ppm the Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate contains 1,017 Million tonnes @ 793 ppm TREO.
Highlights
- JORC 2012 compliant Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) of 1.02 Billion tonnes @ 793 ppm TREO, including a higher-grade portion of 331 Million tonnes @ 977 ppm TREO;
- Ema as one of the largest t...
Mineral sands miner Base Resources Ltd and US-based Energy Fuels Inc. have announced plans to merge to create a global critical minerals business, which will focus on development of the “world-class” Toliara project in Madagascar. ASX- and AIM-listed Base Resources is an established mid cap “pure” mineral sands company, with operations also in Kenya. NYSE- and TSX-listed Energy Fuels Inc. is a leading U.S. producer of uranium, rare earth elements (REEs), and vanadium.
The companies said on April 22 that they have reached a binding agr...
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Boiron and 7 co-authors reported in 2002 that significant fracture and porosity sealing characterizes the sedimentary cover-basement interface in the northwestern margin of the Aquitaine Basin (France). Dolomite and calcite (and sometimes fluorite, barite and quartz) constitute most of the fracture.
The above graphic illistrates a schematic model of the hydrothermal circulations within the Charroux– Civray plutonic complex at the unconformity surface. 1—Tertiary cover; 2—Mesozoic limestones; 3—Impermeable shales, Toarcian formation; 4...
Hartmann opined in mid-April 2024 that we should have known, but, still, the science is shocking: when conservatives run governments, suicides and homicides go up; when liberals run governments, suicides and homicides go down.
We got the first clue back in 2002, when, in a 100-year longitudinal study published that year in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Australian researchers found that the suicide rate in that country and the UK increased throughout the 20th century whenever a Conservative government (similar to Repub...
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