Scientific data near [40.64000,-111.67000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.9 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Salt Lake	county
Utah	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Mount Aire	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Salt Lake City	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Salt Lake City	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Jordan	hydrologic unit
Jordan	hydrologic accounting unit
Great Salt Lake	hydrologic subregion
Great Basin	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
Tintic Quartzite	UT	Early to Middle Cambrian
Bloomington Formation, Maxfield Limestone, and Ophir Formations	UT	Middle Cambrian
Gardison and Lodgepole Limestones	UT	Mississippian
Great Blue Ls, Humbug Formation, and Deseret Limestone	UT	Mississippian
Diamond Creek Sandstone and Kirkman Limestone	UT	Early Permian
Park City and Phosphoria Formations	UT	Permian
Morgan Formation and Round Valley Limestone	UT	Pennsylvanian
Oquirrh Group, including Bridal Veil Limestone	UT	Pennsylvanian to Permian
Alluvium and colluvium	UT	Quaternary
Older alluvial deposits	UT	Quaternary
Glacial deposits	UT	Quaternary
Miocene volcanic rocks, undivided	UT	Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene

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
Salt Lake Valley H. L.	M-Dz	Salt Lake Valley H. L. 3540 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of UT
Lone Peak	M-A	Lone Peak 386 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of UT
Salt Lake City	M/R-D	Salt Lake City 4267 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of UT-WY

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
GB06	Skarn Au, truncated	Tertiary
GB17	Distal disseminated Ag-Au	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB03	Skarn Cu	Tertiary
GB04	Skarn Zn-Pb	Tertiary
GB11	Porphyry Cu (North America)	Middle Tertiary
GB13	Porphyry Cu, skarn-related	Tertiary
GB16	Polymetallic replacement	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
Mojave	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
5106397	1979-09-25	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5106398	1979-09-25	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5331343	1979-09-27	Rock sample. Field scintillometer and gamma spectrometer readings.
5331344	1979-09-27	Rock sample. Field scintillometer and gamma spectrometer readings.
5331345	1979-09-27	Rock sample. Field scintillometer and gamma spectrometer readings.
5331534	1979-10-25	Rock sample. Field scintillometer and gamma spectrometer readings.
5331594	1979-10-25	Rock sample. Field scintillometer and gamma spectrometer readings.

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
1076346	1979-09-28	Untreated spring water sample.

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
D164134	sedimentary	siltstone
D164135	sedimentary	siltstone
D164136	sedimentary	mudstone

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
Sunny Side Mine	Past Producer	ZN
Confidence Mine	Past Producer	AG PB CU AU ZN
Newport Claim	Occurrence	PB
Newman and Afton Groups Mines	Past Producer	ZN PB AG NI CO
Dolly Varden Mine	Past Producer	PB ZN AG
Cottonwood King Mine	Past Producer	PB AG
Dolly Varden Mine	Past Producer	AU PB AG ZN
Sunnyside	Prospect	ZN
Confidence Mine	Prospect	PB AG 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
Newman and Afton Groups Mines	Past Producer	Utah, United States

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
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
Great Basin Tertiary	porphyry copper	Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated with postsubduction extension in the Great Basin
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
Adit	point	Tunnel
Adit	point	Tunnel
Adit	point	Tunnel
Adit	point	Maxfield Mine
Adit	point