Staff Information:

Virgil W. Lueth
Mineralogist/Economic Geologist
Curator - Mineral Museum
Assistant Director for Public Outreach

Grants & Contracts
 

  • 1998 Mineralogic and Petrologic evaluation of cotton hull incineration products [contract]

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  • 1997 Cobre Mining Company - Mineralogic characterization of mine concentrates from the Continental Mine [contract]

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  • 1997 Phelps Dodge - Tyrone - Mineralogic characterization of mine tailings from the Tyrone operations [contract]

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  • 1997 Cobre Mining Company - Feasibility of Wollastonite recovery from the Continental mine. [contract]

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  • 1996 Frank Witzel Consulting - Mineralogical characterization of carbonatite [contract]

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  • 1996 Oglebay Norton, Inc. - Industrial applications of garnet from the Orogrande District. [contract]

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  • 1995 Institute of Museum Services -  (IA-50001-95) National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property - Conservation Assessment Program

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  • 1993 National Science Foundation - (ESI-9353080):  co-PD:  A.R. Macon. Explorations in Environmental Science: An intervention program for talented high school students.

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  • 1993 Organized Research Grant (Equipment) - Tarleton State University.  co-PI:  P. Murry and L. Peters. Mapping Early Cretaceous strata of north-central Texas:  Development of a remote sensing laboratory with the Geosciences Division of the Department of Physical Sciences.

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  • 1992 Organized Research Grant - Tarleton State University:   Hydrochemical identification of bacteriogenic magnetite contamination in the Lower Trinity Aquifers, Texas - a continuation and expansion.

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  • 1992 National Science Foundation - (USE-9251116):  Introduction of advanced petrographic techniques for geology majors.

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  • 1991 Organized Research Grant - Tarleton State University: Hydrochemical identification of bacteriogenic magnetite contamination in the Lower Trinity Aquifers, north-central Texas.

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  • 1990 Organized Research Grant - Tarleton State University: Petrogenesis of an aplorhyolite laccolith/sill complex and its relationship to tellurium mineralization in the Organ district, New Mexico.

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  • 1989 Organized Research Grant - Tarleton State University: Geochemical studies of tellurium in the Organ Mining District, New Mexico.

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  • 1984 New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources -  Comparison of copper skarn deposits in the Silver City Mining Region.

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    Birefringent garnets from the copper skarn
    at Pinos Altos, New Mexico.

    Quartz geode with pyrolusite crystals from
    Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Lisa Peters & Virgil Lueth at the Red Bluff
    Manganese Mine, Magdalena Mountains, NM.
    Rio Grande Rift is in the background.

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