Scientific data near [36.96229,-116.82313]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.8 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Nye	county
Nevada	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Beatty	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Beatty	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Death Valley	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Upper Amargosa	hydrologic unit
Northern Mojave	hydrologic accounting unit
Northern Mojave-Mono Lake	hydrologic subregion
California	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
Intermediate andesite and intermediate flows and breccias	NV	lower Miocene and Oligocene
Younger andesite and intermediate flows and breccias	NV	Miocene
Younger rhyolitic flows and shallow intrusive rocks	NV	Miocene
Younger silicic ash flow tuffs	NV	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
West Pahute Mesa	M-D	West Pahute Mesa 5835 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of NV
Western Nevada	M-Dz	Western Nevada 26457 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV-CA
Death Valley	M/R-D	Death Valley 13487 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CA-NV

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
GB23	Epithermal vein, Comstock	Tertiary
GB26	Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite	Tertiary
GB28	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary
GB30	Sediment-hosted Au	Phanerozoic

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

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
Cascade Arc	porphyry copper	U.S. part of a continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates beneath western North America
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
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point