Scientific data near [33.43130,-111.06400]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Pinal	county
Arizona	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Haunted Canyon	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Mesa	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

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
Paleozoic sedimentary rocks	AZ	Paleozoic
Middle Miocene to Oligocene volcanic rocks	AZ	Oligocene to Middle Miocene
Middle Proterozoic diabase	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
SB29	Epithermal vein, Comstock	Tertiary
SB34	Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite	Tertiary
SB39	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
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
5210438	1979-04-09	Soil sample sieved to less than 149 microns (-100 mesh).
5210439	1979-04-09	Soil sample sieved to less than 149 microns (-100 mesh).

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
1117938	1979-04-09	Spring water sample filtered through a 0.8 micron filter at the site.
1117939	1979-04-09	Spring water sample filtered through a 0.8 micron filter at the site.

Asbestos mines, prospects, and occurrences in the US

Location and mineralogical characteristics of former mines, prospects, and occurrences of asbestos in the continental US. No asbestos producing mines are currently active. Data here are drawn from several previously published reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Last Time group	past prospect
K and S group	past prospect

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
Mountain of Mystery Group	Occurrence	ASB
Independence Group	Occurrence	ASB
K and S Asbestos Group	Prospect	ASB
Last Time Group	Prospect	ASB CU FE

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