Scientific data near [41.28611,-106.17833]

Search area extends approximately 8.9 km east-west and 11.9 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Albany	county
Wyoming	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Centennial	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Saratoga	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Rawlins	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Upper Laramie	hydrologic unit
North Platte	hydrologic accounting unit
North Platte	hydrologic subregion
Missouri	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Medicine Bow National Forest	National Forest
National Forest FS	Type of land area
FS	Federal land areas administered by FS

Geology of US states

Digital geologic maps of the US states with consistent lithology, age, GIS database structure, and format

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Unit	State	Lithology
Cloverly, Morrison, and Sundance Formations	WY	Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous
Casper and Fountain Formations	WY	Upper and Middle Pennsylvanian-Permian
Alluvium and Colluvium	WY	Pleistocene-Holocene
Glacial deposits	WY	Pleistocene-Holocene
Conglomerate	WY	Miocene-Pleistocene
Shear zone	WY	Archean
Jelm and Chugwater Formations, Forelle Limestone, and Satanka Shale	WY	Permian-Lower Triassic
Mafic intrusive rocks	WY	Early Proterozoic
Metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks	WY	Early Proterozoic
Sherman Granite	WY	Middle Proterozoic

Airborne geophysical surveys

Aerial surveys of magnetic anomaly and gamma ray emission; older surveys were analog record which have been digitized, newer surveys collected data in digital form.

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ID	Data type	Description
Medicine Bow	M-Dz	Medicine Bow 1721 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of WY
Sierra Madre	M/R-D	Sierra Madre 9585 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of WY
Rawlins	M/R-D	Rawlins 4876 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of WY-CO

Estimates of undiscovered mineral resources

National Mineral Resource Assessment 1998: Estimates of the number of undiscovered mineral resources of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc within identified permissive tracts (geographic areas in which mineral deposits may form).

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Tract	Deposit Type	Mineralization age
CR23	Massive sulfide, Besshi	Proterozoic
CR24	Massive sulfide, kuroko	Proterozoic
CR35	Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb	Proterozoic
CR36	Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein	Proterozoic

The continental crust

Seventy-seven major components of the North American continent were delineated at a general scale (1:5,000,000); including the general composition, geological environment, and types of primary metals endowments that can be expected in each domain.

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Domain	Crust type	Region
Wyoming	Sialic protocontinent	Northern Rocky Mountains
Great Plains	Lateral-extensional orogen	Central and Southwest

National geochemical survey database

National-scale geochemical analysis of stream sediments and soils in the US, from existing data, reanalysis of existing samples, and new sampling. Goal for sample density is one per 289 square km.

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Sample ID	Material	Source
C-154700	Sediment	Stream, Wet

Geochemistry of stream sediments in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of stream sediments and soils in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
5086131	1976-07-05	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5086132	1976-07-05	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5086133	1976-07-05	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5086134	1976-07-05	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5086135	1976-07-06	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5086136	1976-07-06	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.

Geochemistry of water samples in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of water samples in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
1068298	1976-07-05	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.
1068299	1976-07-05	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.
1068300	1976-07-05	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.
1068301	1976-07-05	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.
1068302	1976-07-06	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.
1068303	1976-07-06	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.

National Geochemical Database: Rock

Geochemical analysis of rock samples collected and analyzed by the USGS. This dataset includes and supersedes rock data formerly released as "Geochemistry of igneous rocks in the US extracted from the PLUTO database"

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Sample ID	Rock type	Rock name
D262025	metamorphic
D262026	metamorphic
D262027	metamorphic
D262028	metamorphic
D262029	metamorphic	metarhyolite
D262030	metamorphic	metarhyolite
D262031	metamorphic
D262032	metamorphic
D262033	metamorphic	ULTRAMAFIC
D262034	metamorphic	ULTRAMAFIC
D262035	metamorphic	ULTRAMAFIC
D262036	metamorphic
D262037	metamorphic	ULTRAMAFIC
D262038	metamorphic	MYLONITE
D262039	metamorphic

Mineral Resource Data System

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.

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Site name	Development	Commodities
Queen Mine	Past Producer	AG PGE_PT AU PGE_IR CU
Independence Mine	Past Producer	AU CU AG PGE_PT PGE_IR PGE_OS PGE_RH PGE_PD NI
Kentucky Derby Mine	Past Producer	CU AU AG PGE_PT PGE_PD PGE_OS PGE_IR
Cliff Mine	Past Producer	AU AG PGE_PT CU
Independence Placer	Occurrence	AU PGE_PT PGE_PD PGE_RH PGE_OS PGE_RU
Fall Creek Placer	Past Producer	AU PGE_PT PGE_OS PGE_RH
Queen Mill Run	Past Producer	AU PGE_PT PGE_PD PGE_OS PGE_IR
Utopia Mine	Past Producer	AU AG CU PGE_PT
Centennial Mine	Past Producer	AU AG PGE_PT
Platinum City Mine	Past Producer	AU CU PGE_PT
Columbine Mine	Past Producer	CU AG PGE_PT AU
Empire Mine	Past Producer	AU AG PGE_PT CU PGE_IR PGE_RH PGE_RU PGE_OS PGE_PD
Free Gold Claim	Past Producer	AU AG CU PGE_PT
Golden Crown Mining Syndicate	Occurrence	AU PGE_PT
Archer Placer Claim	Producer	AU PGE_PT PGE_IR PGE_PD PGE_OS
Centennial Ridge District	Past Producer	AU PGE_PT PGE_PD
Libby Creek	Unknown	U
Cliff Mine	Unknown	U

An index to PGE-Ni-Cr deposits and occurrences in selected mineral-occurrence databases (web-accessible database)

A compendium of references to previously published databases and database records that describe PGE, nickel, and chromium deposits and occurrences. These data show where to obtain more detailed information about each deposit or occurrence.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Independence Placer	Occurrence	Wyoming, United States
Golden Crown Mining Syndicate	Occurrence	Wyoming, United States
Platinum City Mine	Occurrence	Wyoming, United States
Centennial Ridge	Occurrence	Wyoming, United States
Kentucky Derby Prospect	Occurrence	Wyoming, United States
Columbine Mine	Occurrence	Wyoming, United States
Fall Creek Placer	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Queen Mill Run	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Utopia Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Centennial Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Platinum City Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Columbine Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Empire Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Free Gold Claim	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Queen Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Independence Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Kentucky Derby Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Cliff Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Queen Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Empire Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Cliff Mine	Past Producer	Wyoming, United States
Archer Placer Claim	Producer	Wyoming, United States

National Geochronological Database

Radiometric ages of geological materials by K-Ar, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, fission track, and U-Th-Pb dating methods. A revision of DDS-14 correcting locations and providing the data in more convenient formats.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Rock name
219	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Biotite gneiss

National Geochemical Database: Sediment

Geochemical analysis of sediment samples from the National Geochemical Database. Primarily inorganic elemental concentrations, most samples are of stream sediment in the continental US and Alaska.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Sample notes
C154700	stream/river

Prospect- and mine-related features on USGS topographic maps

Symbols indicating mining-related features digitized from historical USGS topographic maps in the western part of the conterminous US. Includes prospect pits, mine shafts and adits, quarries, open-pit mines, tailings piles and ponds, gravel and borrow pit

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Feature ID	Feature type	Feature name
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point	Queen Mine
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point	Cliff Mine
Open Pit Mine	point	Independence Mine
Open Pit Mine	point