Scientific data near [32.04698,-107.93555]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.6 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Luna	county
New Mexico	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Bisbee Hills	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Deming	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Las Cruces	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Mimbres	hydrologic unit
Mimbres	hydrologic accounting unit
Rio Grande-Mimbres	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
Piedmont alluvial deposits	NM	Holocene to lower Pleistocene
Gila Group, Formation, or Conglomerate	NM	Middle Pleistocene to uppermost Oligocene?
Middle Tertiary volcanic rocks, undifferentiated	NM	Lower Miocene to upper Eocene

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
Las Cruces	M/R-D	Las Cruces 3540 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NM-TX

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
SB04	Skarn Cu	Laramide
SB05	Skarn Zn-Pb	Laramide
SB15	Porphyry Cu	Laramide
SB16	Porphyry Cu	Middle Tertiary
SB22	Polymetallic replacement	Middle Tertiary
SB21	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
Mazatzal	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
D-542451	Sediment	Stream, Dry

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
5219996	1976-03-11	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.

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
Big Diggins Mine	Producer	GEM
Big Diggins 1 and 2 Mine	Producer	GEM
Big Diggins 3 Mine	Producer	GEM

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
C165683	surface
D530810	stream/river	stream
D542451		7009111

National Geochemical Database: Concentrate

Geochemistry of concentrates from the National Geochemical Database. Primarily inorganic elemental concentrations, most samples are from the continental US and Alaska.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Sample notes
D577966	stream/river	stream
D578050	stream/river	stream

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
Southwest Laramide East	porphyry copper	A composite island-continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath western North America

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
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point	Big Digging Mine
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	polygon	Big Digging Mines