Scientific data near [38.01384,-107.66225]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Ouray	county
Colorado	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Ouray	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Montrose	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Montrose	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Uncompahange	hydrologic unit
Gunnison	hydrologic accounting unit
Gunnison	hydrologic subregion
Upper Colorado	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Uncompahgre 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
Leadville Limestone, Gilman Sandstone, Dyer Dolomite, and Parting Fm	CO	Devonian-Ordivician
Hermosa Fm	CO	Pennsylvanian
Pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates	CO	Tertiary
Uncompahgre Fm	CO	Early-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
Durango '67	M-A	Durango '67 4441 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CO
Montrose	M/R-D	Montrose 5664 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
CR02	Skarn Cu	Middle Tertiary
CR06	Skarn Zn-Pb	Middle Tertiary
CR05	Skarn Zn-Pb	Laramide
CR08	Porphyry Cu	Laramide
CR09	Porphyry Cu	Middle Tertiary
CR16	Polymetallic replacement	Middle Tertiary
CR17	Polymetallic replacement	Late Tertiary
CR31	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary
CR01	Skarn Cu	Laramide
CR15	Polymetallic replacement	Laramide

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

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
5061854	1976-06-27	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5061902	1976-06-26	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
1045517	1976-06-27	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.
1045560	1976-06-26	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.

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
Gravel Pit	Producer	SDG
Ouray Hot Spring	Unknown	GEO
Prince Lode Claims	Past Producer	PB ZN

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
Ouray	Occurrence	Colorado, United States

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
C105475	stream/river	stream deposit; Stream Sediment : Portland Cr above bridge at campground

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
Adit	point