Scientific data near [37.87000,-106.92833]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.8 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Mineral	county
Colorado	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Creede	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Del Norte	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Durango	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Rio Grande headwaters	hydrologic unit
Rio Grande headwaters	hydrologic accounting unit
Rio Grande headwaters	hydrologic subregion
Rio Grande	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Rio Grande 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
Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence	CO	Tertiary
Oligocene sedimentary rocks	CO	Tertiary

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
San Juan Mountains '86	M-D	San Juan Mountains '86 7483 line km with spacing 0.53 km over parts of CO
Durango '67	M-A	Durango '67 4441 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CO
Creede Mining District	M-D	Creede Mining District 531 line km with spacing 0.32 km over parts of CO
Durango	M/R-D	Durango 7306 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of 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
CR26	Epithermal vein, quartz-adularia	Tertiary
CR29	Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite	Tertiary
CR31	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary

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
Great Plains	Lateral-extensional orogen	Central and Southwest

Major mineral deposits of the world

Regional locations and general geologic setting of known deposits of major nonfuel mineral commodities. Originally compiled in five parts by diverse authors, combined here for convenience despite likely inconsistencies among the regional reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Commodity
Creede (Amethyst, Bulldog etc. veins)	Hydrothermal	silver, lead, zinc

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
5059746	1976-07-14	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
1043028	1976-07-14	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
D316898	igneous	rhyolite
D316899	igneous	rhyolite
D316900	igneous	rhyolite
D316901	igneous	rhyolite
D316902	igneous	rhyolite
D316903	igneous	rhyolite
D316904	igneous	rhyolite
D316905	igneous	rhyolite
D316906	igneous	rhyolite
D316907	igneous	rhyolite
D316908	igneous	rhyolite
D316909	igneous	rhyolite
D316920	igneous	rhyolite
D316921	igneous	rhyolite
D316922	igneous	rhyolite
D316923	igneous	rhyolite
D316924	igneous	rhyolite
D316925	igneous	rhyolite
D316926	igneous	rhyolite
D317870	igneous	rhyolite
D317871	igneous	rhyolite
W228069	igneous	felsic
W228070	igneous	felsic
W228071	igneous	felsic
W228072	igneous	felsic
W228073	igneous	felsic
W228074	igneous	felsic
W228075	igneous	felsic
W228076	igneous	felsic
W228079	igneous	felsic
W228080	igneous	felsic
W228085	igneous	felsic
W228086	igneous	felsic
W228087	igneous	felsic
W228091	igneous	felsic
W228092	igneous	felsic
W228093	sedimentary
W228094	igneous	felsic

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
Commodore Mine	Past Producer	AG PB ZN CU AU SB MN
Bachelor Mine	Past Producer	AG PB ZN AU CU SB MN
Freeport Tunnel	Prospect	AG
Exchequer Tunnel	Occurrence	AG PB AU CU MN
Jack Pot Lode	Occurrence	AG
Emperius Mine	Past Producer	PB AG ZN CD CU AU
Rio Grande No. 2 Lode	Occurrence	AG
Monte Carlo Mine	Past Producer	AG CU
Conejos No. 2 Claim	Occurrence	AG
Mustang Tunnel	Past Producer	AG PB
Copper Lode	Past Producer	AG
Overholt Lode	Past Producer	AG AU CU SB
Creede Formation	Producer	AG BA MN
Jo Jo Tunnel	Occurrence	AG
Commodore	Past Producer	AU PB AG ZN
Copper Lode	Past Producer	AG
Exchequer Tunnel	Past Producer	AU AG
Nelson Tunnel	Past Producer	AU CU PB AG ZN
Wedge	Past Producer	AG CU PB ZN
Mustang	Past Producer	AG CU PB ZN
Monte Carlo	Past Producer	PB AG ZN
United Mines Shaft	Past Producer	AU PB AG ZN

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
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
Open Pit Mine	point
Mine Shaft	point	Monte Carlo Mine
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point	Commodore Mine
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
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
Adit	point
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Bachelor Mine
Adit	point	Commodore Tunnel
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Commodore Mine
Adit	point
Mine Dump	polygon
Mine Dump	polygon
Mine Dump	polygon