@online {142, title = {Active mines and mineral plants in the US}, publisher = {USGS}, abstract = {Mine plants and operations for commodities monitored by the National Minerals Information Center of the USGS. Operations included are those considered active in 2003 and surveyed by the USGS.}, keywords = {$\#$MapsDataPublications, $\#$MineralResources, active, collecting, dimension stone, economic geology, gold, lead, minerals, mines, quarries, sand and gravel, sand pits, silver}, url = {http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mineplant/} } @online {143, title = {Mindat.org}, publisher = {MinDat.org}, abstract = {"Mindat is the largest mineral database and mineralogy reference website on the internet. This site contains worldwide data on minerals, mineral collecting, mineral localities and other mineralogical data. This site is growing every day, with new mineral information, localities and photographs added by members."}, keywords = {$\#$Collecting, $\#$EducationalResources, $\#$MapsDataPublications, $\#$MineralDatabase, $\#$MineralResources, $\#$Minerals, active, collecting, dimension stone, economic geology, fossils, gold, lead, mineral deposits, minerals, mines, quarries, rockhound, sand and gravel, sand pits, silver}, url = {http://www.mindat.org} } @online {145, title = {USGS Groundwater Watch}, publisher = {USGS}, abstract = {The USGS has a distributed water database that is locally managed. Surface water, groundwater, and water quality data are compiled from these local, distributed databases into a national information system. The groundwater database contains records from about 850,000 wells that have been compiled during the course of groundwater hydrology studies over the past 100 years. Information from these wells is served via the Internet through NWISWeb, the National Water Information System Web Interface. NWISWeb provides all USGS groundwater data that are approved for public release. This large number of sites is excellent for some uses, but complicates retrievals when the user is interested in specific networks, or wells in an active water- level measurement program. These "groundwater watch" web pages group related wells and data from these active well networks, and provide basic statistics about the water-level data collected by USGS water science centers for Cooperative Programs, for Federal Programs, and from data supplied to us by our customers through cooperative agreements.}, keywords = {$\#$EducationalResources, $\#$Hydro, $\#$MapsDataPublications, $\#$NaturalHazards, $\#$Water, active, aquifer, drought, flood, flow, groundwater, historic, level, rivers, static water level, stream gauges, streamflow, streams, surface water, water, water quality}, url = {http://groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov/} }