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Uranium (Nuclear and Rare Earth) Committee of the Energy Minerals Division (AAPG) Releases 2018 Annual Report

Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., I2M’s Chief Geologist/Chief Hydrogeologist, released the 2018 Annual Report of the Uranium (Nuclear and REE) Committee to the Energy Minerals Division‘s Executive Committee and Commodity Chairs for their Annual AAPG-EMD Conference on May 19, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Campbell is Chair of the UCOM and scheduled to present a summary of the UCOM report via teleconference on the 19th. The full report is now available (here).

I2M Senior Principal/Project Manager, M. David Campbell, P.G., also serves as Special Consultant to UCOM.

A number of the I2M Consulting are members of the UCOM Advisory Group, i.e., Roger W. Lee, Ph.D., P.G.; James L. Conca, Ph.D.; David Rowlands, Ph.D., P.G.; and Samuel B. Romberger, Ph.D.

Members of the I2M Consulting group are also serving the UCOM as Special Consultants: Ruffin I. Rackley and Bruce Rubin.

mdc2025-12-29T16:05:25-06:00May 5th, 2018|Tags: AAPG, EMD, I2M, UCOM, uranium|

I2M’s Chief Hydrogeologist, Michael D. Campbell, Presents at GeoDayz

I2M’s Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., C.P.G., and AIPG-TX Vice-President, Eastern Texas, presented and contributed to numerous lectures/demonstrations for the GeoDayz -2018 event to 75 students and about 10 young professionals attending the rigorous 2-day event dodging some rain between lectures and tented drilling, sampling, and logging demonstrations.

All told, some 53 lectures/demonstrations were presented during the Saturday and Sunday by the staff of Hydrex, the host of GeoDayz-2018, and by I2M’s Mr. Campbell and Henry M. Wise, P.G., C.P.G., President, AIPG Texas Section (as rotating, personalized periods) to small groups of students (see schedule and photos in the Guidebook).

Below is a link to the Post-GeoDayz Guidebook containing a table of contents, the program flyer, the list of sponsors, introductions, summaries of presentations/demonstrations, PDFs of the presentations /demonstrations, and the photo history of the GeoDayz – 2018 event held in Nacogdoches, Texas in late February:

GeoDayz-2018-FinalGuidebook.pdf

The GeoDayz event was presented for two reasons: 1) to introduce students and new professionals to what they can expect after graduation when they initiate their careers in the environmental or other industries, and 2) to raise money for the Texas Section Scholarship Fund.

I2M is supporting professional training, either in person by presenting lectures or supporting professional societies, or on-line via the I2M Web Portal and through publications by I2M personnel and associates (see below).

For further reports by the AIPG and AIPG Texas Section regarding the GeoDayz Event, see (more).

mdc2025-12-29T16:05:48-06:00March 6th, 2018|Tags: AIPG, Campbell, GeoDayz, I2M|

I2M Personnel Update IET Guide to Growth Faulting and Subsidence in the Houston, Texas Area

I2M’s Chief Geologist/Chief Hydrologist, Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., C.P.G., and I2M’s Senior Project Manager, M. David Campbell, P.G., supported by Henry M. Wise, the Senior Remediation Specialist in Texas for SWS Environmental Services (now NRC) have updated the IET Guide first released in 2013 for the graduates of the IET program, and other professional groups, including the members of the Houston Geological Society and the AIPG in Texas.

The original report has been updated and revised into a paper format by the Journal of Geology and Geoscience, based in London (here). This will also provide a wider readership around the world because subsidence and faulting in soft sediments are not limited to the Houston area.

We are conducting the final review and are adding an author and subject index because of the substantial literature base of the subjects treated.

mdc2025-12-29T16:06:08-06:00February 15th, 2018|Tags: Growth Faulting, Houston, I2M, IET, journal, Subsidence|

I2M Team Produces Another Paper: An Anatomy of a Case of Brine Occurrence in Shallow Groundwater of North-Central Ohio, USA

The I2M team led by Chief Hydrogeologist, Michael D. Campbell, C.P.G., P.G., P.H., and supported by M. David Campbell, P.G., VP and Senior Program Manager; Roger W. Lee, Ph.D., P.G., I2M’s Senior Geochemical Associate; and by Glen A. Collier, C.P.G., P.G., Senior Hydrogeologist of Hydrex Environmental, LLC in Nacogdoches, Texas have collaborated to produce the paper published by the Journal of Geology and Geoscience, London entitled:

“Anatomy of a Case of Elevated Chloride in the Shallow Black Hand Sandstone Providing Rural Drinking Water Supplies in North-Central Ohio, USA: Hydrogeological and Hydrochemical Characterization by Major and Minor Elements, and δ²H, δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C and Tritium (³H) Isotopes.”

Authors pre-publication copy (here).

Summary Abstract: Elevated chloride concentrations (>250 mg/l) were reported to the Ohio State Environmental Protection Agency in the early 2000s by a rural resident using groundwater for domestic consumption from a private water well. An adjacent commercial oil and gas pipe yard had spread relatively small volumes of oilfield brines from 1998 through 2000 to control dust during summers and to de-ice on the property driveways; county and state agencies used halite and other brines on surrounding rural county and state highways during the winter. There are multiple sources in the immediate area that might have contributed to local groundwater by varying degrees, resulting in elevated chloride concentrations reported in the samples from the on-site monitoring wells and from the neighborhood water wells over the years prior to 2004, the time of our investigations. See full abstract in paper.

Keywords: Black Hand Sandstone; Cuyahoga shales; siltstones and sandstones; glacial till; rural groundwater supplies; rural water wells; nested monitoring wells; de-icing activities; use of brine; elevated chloride concentrations; major and minor element hydrochemistry; hydrogeological investigations; ²H (deuterium) and ¹⁸O isotopes; ¹³C (DIC); ³H (tritium); Clinton brine; water-softening systems; septic-tank and leach-field/drain-field systems.

mdc2025-12-29T16:06:48-06:00December 2nd, 2017|Tags: brine, Chloride, ground-water monitoring, I2M, journal|

An Update: Nuclear Power and Uranium Markets, Ownership and Uranium One

This is a brief update published by the Journal of Geology and Geoscience and produced by I2M’s Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., Henry M. Wise, P.G. (of SWS Environmental Services, LLC), and I2M’s M. David Campbell, P.G. based on the 2017 Mid-Year Report from the Chair, Uranium (Nuclear and Rare Earth) Committee of the Energy Mineral Division (AAPG) was released November 26, 2017. Some 99 nuclear power plants in the U.S. remain in operation, a few are scheduled for retirement, two new reactors are being built in Georgia. Japan is slowly upgrading and re-starting its fleet of nuclear power plants after Fukushima. China is rapidly building some 25 new plants and hundreds more are planned, along with financially underwriting the construction of more than 40 projects in joint ventures with other countries.

Russia too is building new nuclear plants at home, and they are testing a “fast breeder” design that consumes most waste. Russia is building nuclear plants on behalf of other countries as well, and providing financing in competition with China. India has turned to nuclear to ramp up electricity production to match population growth rates and is also working on “fast breeder” designs. Other countries are also building nuclear plants funded from a variety of sources. For the details on the above topics and more, see: (more).

The discussions on the above topics are based on information gained from search results (by date or relevance) contained within the improved I2M Web Portal. This provides the reader with historical backgrounds of topics based on media articles and reports from a variety of generally reliable sources. New technology is also being monitored by I2M personnel (e.g., for SMRs), as well as for off-world activities (e.g., Space).

See new input on “What’s New” on the I2M Web Portal.

mdc2025-12-29T16:07:09-06:00November 27th, 2017|Tags: AAPG, China, EMD, I2M, nuclear power, Russia|

Uranium (Nuclear and Rare Earth) Committee of the Energy Minerals Division (AAPG) Releases 2017 Mid-Year (Year-End) Report

Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., I2M’s Chief Geologist / Chief Hydrogeologist, presented a summary of the 2017 Mid-Year Report of the Uranium (Nuclear and REE) Committee to the Energy Minerals Division‘s Executive Committee and Commodity Chairs during their Mid-Year Teleconference on November 27, 2017. Mr. Campbell is Chair of the UCOM. The full report is now available (here).

I2M Senior Project Manager, M. David Campbell, P.G., also serves as Special Consultant to UCOM.

A number of the I2M Associates are members of the UCOM Advisory Group, i.e., Roger W. Lee, Ph.D., P.G.; James L. Conca, Ph.D.; David Rowlands, Ph.D., P.G.; and Samuel B. Romberger, Ph.D.

Members of the I2M Associates group are also serving the UCOM as Special Consultants: Ruffin I. Rackley, and Bruce Rubin.

mdc2025-12-29T16:07:30-06:00November 26th, 2017|Tags: EMD, I2M, UCOM, uranium|

I2M’s David Campbell Releases the New Version of the I2M Web Portal

M. David Campbell, P.G., I2M’s Vice President and Senior Program Manager, announced today the release of the new and improved version of the I2M Web Resource Portal. It has all of the previous 5,000 resources, plus current resources. It now has intelligent phrase search capability and has been online since 2009. It is also designed for mobile devices and is much faster than the previous version hosted on Cloud servers.

The I2M Web Portal consists of topical selections that are strongly influenced by the interests of I2M management, Associates, and Clients, made available as a public service to other geoscientists, and the discerning general public. The topical coverage is illustrated in the graphic provided (here).

Historical search summaries can now be obtained with phrase searches on such topics as the development of small nuclear reactors (e.g., using the term: SMR, and by filtering for sequential date or relevance), developments of particular uranium properties and associated mines (e.g., use Mestena Mine), and on new environmental methods and remedial solutions to managing difficult contaminants (e.g., using term recalcitrant).

An Index to the subjects covered are listed on the Home page under major and subcategory category headings, while the most recent entries (last 90 days) are available on the What’s New page. Additional information about the web portal is available at About this Portal.

I2M Associates personnel also monitor hazardous field conditions around the world via the Field Alerts program, cybersecurity conditions via the Security Alert program, and the ongoing Confronting Media Bias Alerts program.

mdc2025-12-29T16:08:01-06:00November 2nd, 2017|Tags: I2M, portal|

I2M Team Publishes Paper on Gold and Silver Mining Potential in North Vietnam

Members of the the I2M Natural Resources Group (consisting of Michael D. Campbell, I2M's EVP and Chief Geologist, Roger W. Lee, I2M's Senior Associate, and M. David Campbell, I2M's VP and Senior Mining Geologist, just published a paper in the Journal of Geology and Geoscience in London on the mining potential southwest of Hanoi, Vietnam in the Đồi Bù District, Hòa Bình Region.

mdc2025-12-29T16:08:24-06:00October 12th, 2017|Tags: I2M, mining, Vietnam|

I2M’s Chief Geologist Appointed to Editorial Board of Journal of Geology and Geoscience Based in London

Michael D. Campbell, I2M's Chief Geologist/Chief Hydrogeologist, has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the new Journal of Geology and Geoscience, based in London.

mdc2025-12-29T16:08:47-06:00October 6th, 2017|Tags: Geosciences, I2M, journal|

I2M’s Web Portal Just Passed 5,000 Resources

Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., I2M’s Chief Geologist and Chief Hydrogeologist, announced today that I2M’s Web Resource Portal just passed 5,000 entries (resource reports, technical media, etc.,) under 219 categories. This is six months ahead of projections of Portal growth. The milestone was reached by the enthusiastic support and input from I2M staff and associates from around the world. The Web Portal serves as an online file cabinet containing reports, technical news items, etc. that will be available wherever you are as long as the Internet is in range. The tabs below will provides most of the answers you might have about the I2M Web Portal:

Latest Resources | The Catalog Index | Description & Objectives of the Web Portal | Categories & Distribution (2017)

mdc2025-12-29T16:10:14-06:00April 13th, 2017|Tags: I2M, portal|