Jonathan G. Price

Director/State Geologist
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
University of Nevada, Reno

Business telephone: (775) 784-6691
FAX: (775) 784-1709
E-mail: jprice@unr.edu

EDUCATION

B.A. Geology and German, Lehigh University, 1972
M.A. Geology, University of California, Berkeley, 1975
Ph.D. Geology, University of California, Berkeley, 1977

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
  1. Director/State Geologist and Research Geologist (Rank IV), Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology University of Nevada, Reno, Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering (September 1988 - present; tenured, 1990; on loan to the National Research Council from February 1993 to February 1995)
  2. Staff Director, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources National Research Council National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. (February 1993 to February 1995)
  3. The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology (January 1981 - August 1988) The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences
  4. Geologist, United States Steel Corporation, Corpus Christi, Texas (June 1978 - January 1981), and Salt Lake City, Utah (June 1977 - August 1977)
  5. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (August 1977 - June 1978)
  6. Geologist, The Anaconda Company, Weed Heights, Nevada (June 1974 - September 1974; June 1975 - September 1975)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Price, J.G., Meeuwig, R.O., Tingley, J.V., Castor, S.B., Hess, R.H., and Davis, D.A., 2003, The Nevada mineral industry - 2002: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication MI-2002, 70 p. (Overview by J.G. Price and R.O. Meeuwig, p. 3-11.)

Ward, M.H., chair, Price, J.G., vice-chair, Beebe, R.R., Brierley, C.L., Costin, L., Falkie, T., Greenwald, N.L., Han, K.N., Hitzman, M., Miller, G., Ramani, R.V., Tilton, J.E., Tippin, R.B., and Wan, R.Y. (Committee on Technologies for the Mining Industries), 2002, Evolutionary and revolutionary technologies for mining: National Research Council, National Academy Press, 85 p.

Price, J.G., 2002, Geology of Nevada: The Professional Geologist, v. 39, no. 4, p. 2-8.

Tingley, J.V., Purkey, B.W., Duebendorfer, E.M., Smith, E.I., Price, J.G., and Castor, S.B., 2001, Geologic tours in the Las Vegas area, Expanded edition: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 16, 140 p.

Price, J.G., Lechler, P.J., Lear, M.B., and Giles, T.F., 2000, Possible volcanic source of lithium in brines in Clayton Valley, Nevada, in Cluer, J.K, Price, J.G., Struhsacker, E.M., Hardyman, R.F., and Morris, C.L., eds., Geology and ore deposits 2000: the Great Basin and beyond: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, May 15-18, 2000, Reno, p. 241-248.

Hagenstein, P.R., chair, Adams, S.S., vice-chair, Baldrige, A.C., Barton, P.B., Jr., Clark, E.H., Gentry, D.W., Krauss, R., Maest, A.S., McElfish, J.M., Jr., Patten, D.T., Price, J.G., Reavis, R.E., and Runnells, D.D. (Committee on Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands), 1999, Hardrock mining on federal lands: National Research Council, National Academy Press, 247 p.

Craig, Collette, Price, Beth, Fuetsch, John, Craig, Lindsay, and Price, Jon, 1999, The Science of the Comstock: ThinkQuest.

dePolo, C.M., Anderson, J.G., dePolo, D.M., and Price, J.G., 1997, Earthquake occurrence in the Reno-Carson City urban corridor: Seismological Research Letters, v. 68, no. 3, p. 386-397.

Price, J.G., 1996, Domestic nonfuels minerals data workshop (meeting summary): The Professional Geologist, v. 33, no. 12, p. 28. Price, J.G., and Usselman, T.M., 1996, Research in the earth sciences, in Dasch, E.J., ed., Encyclopedia of earth sciences: Macmillan Reference USA, New York, p. 902-907.

Otte, C., Jr., chair, Abelson, P.H., Adams, S.S., Darmstadter, J., Eggert, R.G., Einaudi, M.T., Foster, N.H., Groat, C.G., Hagenstein, P.R., Haney, D.C., LaMoreaux, P.E., Landon, S.M., Pasteris, J.D., Price, J.G., Tyler, N., and West, W.F. (Committee on Earth Resources), 1996, Mineral resources and sustainability: challenges for earth scientists: National Research Council, National Academy Press, 26 p.

Adams, S.S., chair, Abelson, P.H., Dummett, H.T., Eggert, R.G., Findlay, D.C., Maest, A.S., Nielson, D.R., Price, J.G., Runnells, D.D., Skinner, B.J., Stephenson, D.A., and Vikre, P. G. (Panel to Review the Mineral Resource Surveys Program Plan of the U.S. Geological Survey), 1996, Mineral resources and society, A review of the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resource Surveys Program Plan: National Research Council, National Academy Press, 87 p.

Hsu, L.C., Bonham, H.F., Jr., Price, J.G., Garside, L.J., Desilets, M.O., and Lechler, P.J., 1995, Geochemical characteristics of the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Winnemucca 30'x60' Quadrangle, Nevada, U.S.A.--Background values for gold exploration: Exploration and Mining Geology, v. 4, p. 227-242.

Price, J.G., Shevenell, L., Henry, C.D., Rigby, J.G., Christensen, L., Lechler, P.J., Desilets, M., Fields, R., Driesner, D., Durbin, B., and Lombardo, W., 1995, Water Quality at Inactive and Abandoned Mines in Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 95-4, 72 p.

Price, J. G., 1994, Outlook - Probability, Predictions, and the Profession: Geotimes, v. 39, no. 2, p. 10.

Rigby, J.G., Price, J.G., Christensen, L.G., LaPointe, D.D., Ramelli, A.R., Desilets, M.O., Hess, R.H., and Marshall, S.R., 1994, Radon in Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 108, 76 p.

Price, J.G., Rigby, J.G., Christensen, L., Hess, R., LaPointe, D.D., Ramelli, A.R., Desilets, M., Hopper, R.D., Kluesner, R., and Marshall, S., 1994, Radon in outdoor air in Nevada: Health Physics, v. 66, no. 4, p. 433-438.

Price, J.G., Castor, S.B., and Miller, D.M., 1992, Highly radioactive topaz rhyolites of the Toano Range, northeastern Nevada: American Mineralogist, v. 77, p. 1067-1073.

Price, J.G., 1992, Research potential of the state geological surveys and universities, in Tooker, E. W., ed., Industrial minerals in the Basin and Range region - workshop proceedings: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2013, p. 79-84.

Bell, J.W., Price, J.G., and Mifflin, M.D., 1992, Subsidence-induced fissuring along preexisting faults in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting, Association of Engineering Geologists, p. 66-75.

Price, J.G., Rubin, J.N., Henry, C.D., Pinkston, T.L., Tweedy, S. ., and Koppenaal, D.W., 1990, Peraluminous rhyolites in a continental arc, Sierra Blanca, Trans-Pecos Texas: chemical modification by vapor-phase crystallization, in Stein, H. J., and Hannah, J.L., eds., Ore-bearing granite systems; petrogenesis and mineralizing processes: eological Society of America Special Paper 246, p. 103-120.

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