Scientific data near [47.26000,-114.58000]

Search area extends approximately 1.1 km east-west and 1.6 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Sanders	county
Montana	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Perma	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Plains	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Wallace	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Lower Flathead	hydrologic unit
Pend Oreille	hydrologic accounting unit
Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane	hydrologic subregion
Pacific Northwest	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
Mafic intrusive rock	MT	Middle Proterozoic
Lower Prichard Formation	MT	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
N.E. Idaho-W. Montana	M-Dz	N.E. Idaho-W. Montana 14484 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of MT-ID
Wallace	M/R-D	Wallace 4469 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of ID-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
NR37	Sediment-hosted Cu, Revett	Proterozoic
NR36	Sediment-hosted Cu, reduced-facies	Proterozoic
NR39	Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb	Late Proterozoic

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
Wallace	Intracratonic mobile belt	Northern Rocky Mountains

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
Lucky Lode Prospect	Occurrence	Montana, 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
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.