Scientific data near [46.44000,-111.98000]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 6.5 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Jefferson	county
Montana	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Clancy	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Townsend	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
White Sulphur Springs	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Upper Missouri	hydrologic unit
Upper Missouri	hydrologic accounting unit
Missouri-Marias	hydrologic subregion
Missouri	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
Granitic rock	MT	Cretaceous

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
Butte '83	M-D	Butte '83 11844 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of MT
Boulder Batholith	M-Dz	Boulder Batholith 4972 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of MT
Butte	M/R-D	Butte 4406 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of MT
White Sulpher Spring	M/R-D	White Sulpher Spring 4433 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of MT

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
NR10	Porphyry Cu (North America)	Cretaceous - Eocene

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 Falls	Intracratonic mobile belt	Northern Rocky Mountains

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
C-167619	Sediment	Stream, Dry
D-556817	Sediment	Stream, Dry
D-556818	Sediment	Stream, Dry
D-557473	Sediment	Spring, Wet
D-557474	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
5016844	1976-04-15	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5016848	1976-04-21	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5016849	1976-04-21	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5016850	1976-04-21	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5017829	1977-10-12	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5017830	1977-10-12	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5018582	1976-07-08	Wet spring sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5018583	1976-07-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5018584	1976-07-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5018585	1976-07-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5018586	1976-07-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5018588	1976-07-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5018589	1976-07-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5018590	1976-07-08	Wet spring sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5039004	1976-04-15	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5040013	1976-07-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -230 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5040014	1976-07-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -100 and +170 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5040015	1976-07-08	Dry stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC (if necessary) and sieved to -170 and +230 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
1011894	1976-04-21	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.
1012705	1976-07-08	Spring 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.
1028540	1976-04-15	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.

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
D206035	igneous	granite
D206036	igneous	granite

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
Warm Springs Gulch Placer	Past Producer	AU PGE_PT
W Wilson Mine	Producer	U
Alhambra Hot Springs	Producer	GEO
W. Wilson Mine	Occurrence	U
Yellowstone Prospect	Occurrence	CU PB ZN
New State Dump	Unknown	AG CU PB ZN
Katie Mine	Unknown	AG CU AU PB
Blue Boy Mine	Occurrence	AG PB
New Stake Mine	Past Producer	AG ZN
Warm Springs Creek	Occurrence	AU AG
Kennedy	Occurrence	AG
Helens Pride Mine	Occurrence	AU AG
Sullivan	Occurrence	PB

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
Warm Springs Gulch Placer	Past Producer	Montana, 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
C167619	surface
C182527	stream/river	medium sand, mod. Fe-ox staining; stream
C197138	stream/river	FIELD DUPE OF PP 4; stream
C197146	stream/river	NEW PRICKLY PEAR SAMPLE; stream
C197150	stream/river	NEW PRICKLY PEAR SAMPLE; stream
C197170	stream/river	NEW WARM SPRINGS SAMPLE; stream
D194642	stream/river	STREAM SEDIMENT, BADGER CR; stream
D194664	stream/river	STREAM SEDIMENT, DUTCHMAN CR; stream
D194671	stream/river	STREAM SEDIMENT, BADGER CR; stream
D194676	stream/river	STREAM SEDIMENT, WARM SPRINGS CR; stream
D194696	stream/river	STREAM SEDIMENT, WARM SPRGS CR; stream
D194718	stream/river	STREAM SEDIMENT, DUTCHMAN CR; stream
D206033	spring	precipitate; calcareous; ferruginous; TRAVERTINE, DARK-REDDISH BROWN. ALHAMBRA HOT SPRINGS
D206034	spring	TRAVERTINE, LIGHT-GRAY, ENCRUSTATION, SOME ROCK. ALHAMBRA HOT SPRINGS
D206037	spring	precipitate; calcareous; ferruginous; TRAVERTINE, LIGHT-YELLOWISH-BROWN, PLATY, FRESH. ALHAMBRA HOT SPRINGS
D206038	spring	TRAVERTINE, YELLOWISH-GRAY WITH LIGHT BROWN, POROUS. ALHAMBRA HOT SPR
D206039	spring	TRAVERTINE, YELLOWISH-GRAY, POROUS. ALHAMBRA HOT SPRINGS
D556817
D556818
D557026
D557027
D557031
D557032
D557033
D557473
D557474
D557475
D557476
D557477
D557479
D557480
D557481

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
Northern Rocky Mountains	porphyry copper	Part of a continental margin arc that formed along the western margin of North America
Pacific Margin	porphyry copper	Cretaceous through middle Tertiary volcanic and intrusive rocks representing a series of continental- and island-arc systems accreted and superimposed onto the paleomargin of northeast Asia.

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
Mine Shaft	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Tailings - Undifferentiated	polygon
Tailings - Undifferentiated	polygon
Tailings - Undifferentiated	polygon