Scientific data near [33.56191,-106.46132]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.7 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Socorro	county
New Mexico	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Mockingbird Gap	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Oscura Mountains	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Tularosa	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Jornada Del Muerto	hydrologic unit
Rio Grande-Elephant Butte	hydrologic accounting unit
Rio Grande-Elephant Butte	hydrologic subregion
Rio Grande	hydrologic region

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
Yeso Formation	NM	Leonardian
Upper Santa Fe Group	NM	Middle Pleistocene to uppermost Miocene
Mesoproterozoic granitic plutonic rocks	NM	Mesoproterozoic

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
Trinity Valley	M-Dz	Trinity Valley 885 line km with spacing 0.80 km over parts of NM
Tularosa	M/R-D	Tularosa 4248 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NM

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
CR13	Porphyry Cu-Au	Middle Tertiary
CR22	Alkaline Au-Te	Middle Tertiary
CR25	Massive sulfide, kuroko	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
Mazatzal	Lateral-extensional orogen	Central and Southwest

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
5218855	1977-06-12	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5218856	1977-06-12	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5218857	1977-06-12	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5219078	1979-05-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5219079	1979-05-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.

Global assessment of undiscovered copper resources

Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.

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Tract name	Deposit type	Geology
Western Sierra Madre Occidental and Laramide Central	porphyry copper	Belt of Late Cretaceous to middle Eocene (Laramide) magmatic arc rocks in the Sierra Madre Occidental, eastern Mexican Basin and Range, and the Mesa Central of north-central Mexico and extensions north in to the U.S
Eastern Alkaline Province	porphyry copper	A belt of Tertiary alkaline granitic rocks associated with back-arc or postsubduction extension
Tertiary Central Plateau and Rocky Mountains	porphyry copper	Belt of middle Tertiary (Oligocene-Miocene) granitic to intermediate intrusive rocks & volcanics associated w/post-Laramide stage of magmatism in northern Mexico and Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated w/post-subduction extension in eastern Rocky Mtns

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
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Mine