Annual log contents – click on year to download PDF
2000 Fossil-fuel reserves; waning fresh-water supplies; mining an active volcano; bacterial activity and ore formation.
2002 Identifying ‘conflict diamonds’; petroleum exploration using ‘microleptons’; kimberlite exploration using microgravity.
2003 Resources and Congo conflict; environmental effects of dams; removing iron from drinking water; challenges of the petroleum industry; sediment bleaching by hydrocarbons; globalisation of water resources.
2004 Gas hydrate resources; abiotic formation of hydrocarbons; Fischer-Tropsch process; ‘Peak Oil’; hydrothermal gold mineralisation; creating artificial islands.
2005 Reducing carbon emissions; globalisation and water resources; petroleum migration; dating hydrocarbon deposits; Precambrian petroleum generation; mineralising fluids; deep-sea mining.
2006 Biomineralisation and gold nuggets; hydrothermal gold mineralisation.
2007 Carbon sequestration and storage; limits to growth; deep-sea mining.
2008 Abiotic formation of hydrocarbons; Fischer-Tropsch process.
2009 Groundwater depletion; GRACE satellite; gas hydrates.
2010 Shale gas; fracking; porphyry ore deposits; Chilean mine rescue.
2011 Economics of coal mining; hydrothermal gold mineralisation; deep-sea mining; UK fracking.
2012 African groundwater supplies.
2013 UK fracking; porphyry ore formation; global groundwater depth patterns; mining history; waster natural gas; manganese nodule mining; fracking review; hydrothermal vents and electricity generation; offshore groundwater resources.
2014 UK fracking; groundwater depletion; GRACE satellite.
2015 Banded iron formation origins.
2016 European fracking; global water resources.
2018 Ocean-floor resources
2019 Ocean-floor resources; UK shale gas and fracking; Precambrian petroleum migration; ‘Anthropocene’ sediments and future ‘resources’.
2020 Muds, bacterial nanowires, petroleum source rocks, metal resources, hazards
2021 Gravity measurements chart massive depletion in groundwater beneath India and Pakistan.
2022 to 2025 Ancient ground water, South Africa; naturally occurring hydrogen, colour code white; water resources on the Moon; carbon capture and storage breakthrough; ‘white’ hydrogen – naturally emitted – global resources;
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