Scientific data near [33.39485,-110.95585]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Gila	county
Arizona	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Inspiration	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Globe	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Mesa	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Upper Salt	hydrologic unit
Salt	hydrologic accounting unit
Salt	hydrologic subregion
Lower Colorado	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Tonto 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
Early Tertiary to Late Cretaceous granitic rocks	AZ	Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary
Pliocene to middle Miocene deposits	AZ	Middle Miocene to Pliocene
Early Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks	AZ	Early Proterozoic
Middle Proterozoic granitic rocks	AZ	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
Superstitions Extension	M-D	Superstitions Extension 543 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AZ
Southeast Arizona	M-D	Southeast Arizona 13851 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of AZ
Mesa	M/R-D	Mesa 5005 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of AZ

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
SB24	Distal disseminated Ag-Au	Mesozoic - Tertiary
SB03	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
SB20	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
SB14	Porphyry Cu	Laramide
SB17	Porphyry Cu-Au	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

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
Pinto Valley - Castle Dome	Hydrothermal	copper, molybdenum, silver, gold
Castle Dome (Pinto Valley, includes Carlota - Cactus)	Hydrothermal	copper, silver

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
1117985	1979-04-06	Well water sample filtered through a 0.8 micron filter at the site.
1117986	1979-04-06	Well water sample filtered through a 0.8 micron filter at the site.

Global distribution of selected mines, deposits, and districts of critical minerals

Approximate locations and short descriptions of mines, deposits, and districts where critical minerals are found. The critical minerals are discussed in USGS Professional Paper 1802 many of these locations are described in further detail in that report.

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Site name	Critical minerals	Deposit type
Castle Dome (Pinto Valley)	Rhenium	Porphyry Cu-Au

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
M134812	igneous	granodiorite
M134826	igneous	granodiorite

Porphyry copper deposits of the world

Information on porphyry copper deposits from around the world with grade and tonnage models, a general classification based on geologic setting, mineralogy, with data allowing locations of these deposits to be plotted using GIS.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Castle Dome	17	Arizona, 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
15413	Core or cutting	Porphyry
15441	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz monzonite
15449	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granodiorite
15455	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granodiorite

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
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
Western Mexican Basin and Range and Laramide Southwest	porphyry copper	Late Cretaceous to middle Eocene island arc and continental arc rocks along the western margin of Mexico and extending north into the U.S.
Western U.S. and Sonoran Desert Jurassic Arc	porphyry copper	U.S. and Mexican parts of 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
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Open Pit Mine	polygon	Castle Dome Mine
Tailings - Pond	polygon	Cottonwood Tailings Pond
Tailings - Pond	polygon	Cottonwood Tailings Pond