Scientific data near [44.16944,-114.63944]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 3.1 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Custer	county
Idaho	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Robinson Bar	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
White Cloud Peaks	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Challis	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Upper Salmon	hydrologic unit
Salmon	hydrologic accounting unit
Lower Snake	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
Sedimentary rocks (Mississippian).	ID	Mississippian
Sedimentary rocks (Permian and Pennsylvanian).	ID	Permian and Pennsylvanian

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
Idaho Regional '69	M-Dz	Idaho Regional '69 7773 line km with spacing 8.00 km over parts of ID
White Cloud	M-Dz	White Cloud 2409 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of ID
Challis	M/R-D	Challis 5740 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of ID

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
NR09	Porphyry Cu (North America)	Mesozoic
NR40	Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb	Paleozoic

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 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
BFM531	sedimentary	sinter
BFM532	metamorphic	quartzite
BFM533
BFM534
BFZ322
BFZ323	igneous	quartz
C138019	sedimentary	conglomerate

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
Hoodoo Prospects	Past Producer	ZN AG CU PB CD
Fairway	Occurrence	U

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
BEB405	stream/river	SD; stream
BEB406	stream/river	SD; stream
BEB407	stream/river	SD; stream
BEB408	stream/river	SD; stream
BEB409	stream/river	SD; stream
BEB410	stream/river	SD; stream
C137674	stream/river	stream
C137675	stream/river	stream

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

Critical mineral deposits of the United States

Mineral deposit information drawn from USGS databases, industry reports, and scientific literature totalling 681 individual mineral deposits documented to contain critical minerals. Data are provided in Esri file geodatabase, Microsoft Excel, shapefile, and CSV formats.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Critical minerals
Hoodoo	Zinc-lead (MVT and sedex)	zinc