Each year since 1915, AZGS has released geologic maps, formal reports, and other geology-related publications.

From 1893 until 1915, the role of geologic mapping and reporting was handed off to the University of Arizona Bureau of Mines.

World War II was a fertile time for the Arizona Bureau of Mines.

The hunt for strategic metals from large volume, low-grade deposits involved Bureau geologists in research and design of ore concentrating facilities at five major low-grade copper deposits.

Territorial and State Geologic Agencies of Arizona from 1888–2007[1] The 2017 annual budget for the AZGS is $941,000.