Scientific data near [39.40550,-115.86519]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
White Pine	county
Nevada	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Silverado Mountain	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Mount Hamilton	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Ely	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Little Smoky-Newark Valleys	hydrologic unit
Central Nevada Desert Basins	hydrologic accounting unit
Central Nevada Desert Basins	hydrologic subregion
Great Basin	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
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Limestone and minor dolomite	NV	Upper and Middle Devonian
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Dolomite, sandstone, and limestone	NV	Middle and Lower Devonian
Foreland Basin Assemblage - Siltstone, limestone, shale, and sandstone	NV	Lower Mississippian and Upper Devonian
Older gravels	NV	Pleistocene and Pliocene
Intermediate silicic ash flow tuff	NV	lower Miocene and Oligocene

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
Eureka '67	M-Dz	Eureka '67 1512 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV
Ely	M/R-D	Ely 4947 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NV-UT

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
GB05	Skarn Au, truncated	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB18	Distal disseminated Ag-Au	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB02	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB15	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB30	Sediment-hosted Au	Phanerozoic
GB08	Porphyry Cu	Cretaceous
GB09	Porphyry Cu	Tertiary
GB10	Porphyry Cu	Jurassic

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

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
98-EY-140	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
5140068	1980-06-13	Other sediment or rock sample.
5140069	1980-06-13	Stream sediment sample from dry stream, sieved to less than 149 microns (-100 mesh), and dried (if necessary) at less than or equal to 110øC.

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
BDW714
BDW715
BDW716
BDW717
BDW718
BDW719
BDW720
BDW721
BDW722
BDW723
D183679	sedimentary	siltstone
EAA201
EAA212
EAA213
EAA214
EAA215
EAA216
EAA217
EAA218
EAA219
ELC806	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
W246619	sedimentary
W246632	sedimentary	shale
W246633	sedimentary	sandstone
W246634	sedimentary	shale

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
Queen	Past Producer	AG
Autumn No. 2	Occurrence	AG
Maryland	Prospect	AG CU AU PB
Duquett	Occurrence	AG
Silverstone	Occurrence	AG
Silverado	Occurrence	AG CU AU PB
Queen Mine	Unknown	AG

National Geochemical Database: Soil

Geochemical analysis of soil samples from the National Geochemical Database. Primarily inorganic elemental concentrations, most samples are from the continental US and Alaska.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Sample notes
BDW643
BDW644
BDW645
BDW646
BDW647
BDW648
BDW649
BDW650
BDW651
BDW652
BDW653
BDW654
BDW655
BDW656
BDW657
BDW658
BDW659
BDW660
BDW661
BDW662
BDW663
BDW664
BDW665
BDW666
BDW667
BDW668
BDW669
BDW670
BDW671
BDW672
BDW673
BDW674
BDW675
BDW676
BDW677
BDW678
BDW679
BDW680
BDW681
BDW682
BDW683
BDW684
BDW685
BDW686
BDW687
BDW688
BDW689
BDW690
BDW691
BDW692
BDW693
BDW694
BDW695
BDW696
BDW697
BDW698
BDW699
BDW700
BDW701
BDW702
EAE220
EAE221
EAE222
EAE223
EAE224
EAE225
EAE226
EAE227
EAE228
EAE229
EAE230
EAE231
EAE232
EAE233
EAE234
EAE235
EAE378
EAE379

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
Great Basin Tertiary	porphyry copper	Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated with postsubduction extension in the Great Basin
Sierran Arc	porphyry copper	A composite island-continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath western North America
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
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Mine Shaft	point
Adit	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point
Adit	point	Mine