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| The Grasberg Mine |
| January 1997 | Table of Contents | Volume 42 | Number 1 |
DEPARTMENTS
POLITICAL SCENE
David Applegate Progress on WIPP
Anatomy of a Mine: The Discovery and Development of
Grasberg
by Mark Cloos The Grasberg mine, located in the
remote Indonesian province of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea), taps
a 1.7-billion-tonne copper-gold orebody. An engineering marvel in
itself, Grasberg promises to remain a major source of copper
through -- and perhaps beyond -- the next century.
Update: The New USGS
by Gordon Eaton The nation's largest earth and water
science agency is now also one of its largest biological research
organizations. This marriage between physical and biologicial
science promises effective solutions to problems involving public
health and safety, economic development and growth, and
environmental protection and use.
Dispelling the Myth of Sea-floor Tranquility
by Gerald M. Friedman and John E. Sanders Scientists
once believed the ocean depths to be a still, unchanging realm.
But research dating from the discovery of submarine canyons in
the 1930s helped geologists piece together a very different and
dynamic picture of marine sedimentology and the deep sea.
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