University of Kentucky

The Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky will conserve mineral cores from the Western Kentucky Fluorspar and South-Central Kentucky Mineral Districts Rock Core Collection at the Earth Analysis Research Library. The university will hire two geologists, a geologic archive technician, and a photographer to document, correlate metadata, and conserve the mineral cores. Project staff will oversee collections care tasks, including identifying the geologic and mineral makeup of the cores, labeling, and rehousing. Additionally, project staff will make existing and new data about the collection available online for mineral deposit researchers in industry and the geosciences.