Scientific data near [40.42674,-116.84835]

Search area extends approximately 8.9 km east-west and 11.7 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Lander	county
Nevada	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Mount Lewis	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Crescent Valley	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Winnemucca	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Reese	hydrologic unit
Humboldt	hydrologic accounting unit
Black Rock Desert-Humboldt	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
Mixed breccias including volcanic, thrust, jasperoid, and landslide megabreccia	NV	Tertiary to Jurassic
Basin Assemblage - Shale, chert, quartzite, greenstone, and limestone	NV	Devonian to Upper Cambrian
Dutch Flat Terrane - Feldspathic sandstone, shale, and turbiditic limestone	NV	Upper Devonian
Golconda Terrane - Basinal, volcanogenic, terrigenous clastic, and minor carbonate rocks	NV	Permian to Upper Devonian
Siliciclastic Overlap Assemblage - Conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone, and limestone	NV	Permian to Middle Pennsylvanian
Alluvium, undifferentiated	NV	Holocene and Pleistocene
Older alluvium and alluvial fan deposits	NV	Pleistocene and Pliocene
Basin Assemblage - Feldspathic sandstone, siltstone, shale, and chert	NV	Silurian
Intermediate andesite and intermediate flows and breccias	NV	lower Miocene and Oligocene
Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks	NV	Miocene to Eocene
Intermediate rhyolitic flows and shallow intrusive rocks	NV	lower Miocene and Oligocene
Humboldt Assemblage - Limestone, dolomite, shale, sandstone, and conglomerate	NV	middle Upper to upper Lower Triassic (Carnian to Spathian)
Younger tuffaceous sedimentary rocks	NV	Pliocene and 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
Roberts Mountains	M-Dz	Roberts Mountains 2900 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV
Winnemucca	M/R-D	Winnemucca 4747 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of 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
GB20	Massive sulfide, Besshi	Paleozoic
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
GB19	Massive sulfide, Cyprus	Paleozoic
GB08	Porphyry Cu	Cretaceous
GB09	Porphyry Cu	Tertiary
GB10	Porphyry Cu	Jurassic
GB20	Massive sulfide, Besshi	Paleozoic
GB30	Sediment-hosted Au	Phanerozoic
GB33	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
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-WM-324	Sediment	Stream, Dry
98-WM-326	Sediment	Stream, Wet
98-WM-327	Sediment	Stream, Wet
98-WM-384	Sediment	Stream, Wet
98-WM-401	Sediment	Stream, Wet

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
5148906	1976-08-17	Dry stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns).
5148927	1976-08-22	Wet stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns).
5148928	1976-08-22	Wet stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns).
5149108	1976-09-12	Wet stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns).
5149151	1976-09-13	Wet stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns).
5149325		Wet stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns).

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
1090295	1976-08-22	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter.
1090341	1976-09-12	Spring water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter.
1090390	1976-09-13	Spring water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter.
1090428	1976-09-16	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter.

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
M108564	igneous	latite
M108565	igneous	latite
M117438	igneous	unknown
M164465	igneous	unknown
M164466	igneous	unknown
M164467	igneous	rhyolite
M164468	igneous	rhyolite
M164469	igneous	rhyolite
M164470	igneous	quartz latite
M164471	igneous	rhyolite
M164472	igneous	rhyolite
M164473	igneous	rhyolite
M164474	igneous	unknown
M164475	igneous	rhyolite
M164476	igneous	rhyolite
M164477	igneous	rhyolite
M164478	igneous	rhyolite
M164479	igneous	quartz latite
M164480	igneous	quartz monzonite
M164481	sedimentary	conglomerate
M164482	sedimentary	conglomerate
M164483	sedimentary	limestone
M164484	sedimentary	CHERT
M164485	sedimentary	CHERT
M164486	igneous	rhyolite
M164487	sedimentary	CHERT
M164488	igneous	quartz monzonite
M164489	igneous	rhyolite
M164490	igneous	rhyolite
M164491	igneous	rhyolite
M164492	igneous	rhyolite
M164493	igneous	rhyolite
M164494	sedimentary	CHERT
M164495
M164496	igneous	unknown
M164497
M164498	sedimentary
M164499	igneous	rhyolite
M164500
M164501
M164502	igneous	quartz latite
M164503	sedimentary	limestone
M164997	sedimentary	shale
M164998	sedimentary	SILTSTONE
M165000	sedimentary	limestone
M165065	sedimentary	sandstone
M165073	sedimentary	limestone
M165075	sedimentary	limestone
M165091	igneous	basalt
M165092	igneous	basalt
M165093	igneous	basalt
M165094	igneous	basalt
M165095	igneous	basalt
M165096	igneous	basalt
M165097	igneous	basalt
M165108	igneous	basalt
M165109	igneous	basalt
M165110	igneous	basalt
M165111	igneous	basalt
M165112	igneous	basalt
M165113	igneous	basalt
M190235	igneous	rhyolite
M190236	sedimentary	conglomerate
M190237	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
Blue Dick Antimony Mine	Producer	SB AG AU SE
First Riffles Placer Mine	Producer	AU AG
Miners Dream Mine	Past Producer	AU AG PB ZN CU
Pittsburg Mine	Producer	AU AG CU PB
Southern Pacific Lease	Past Producer	MN FE
Blue Nose Mine	Past Producer	SB AG AU
Dean Mine	Past Producer	AU AG PB ZN FE CU
Eagle-Monitor Claims	Producer	AG AU CU PB ZN FE
Starr Grove Mine	Past Producer	AG AU CU PB
Kattenhorn Mine	Producer	AG SB AU CU PB ZN FE
Dean Mine	Past Producer	AU AG PB ZN FE CU
Whisky Canyon Prospect	Producer	AU AG
Lanca Ster-Caudle Group	Occurrence	BA
O'Neal Claim	Past Producer	AU AG
Defiance Claims	Past Producer	AU AG
Dusang & Logan Claims	Past Producer	AU AG
Dean Mine	Plant	AU AG CU PB
Grue Placer Mine	Past Producer	MN AU
Lewis Canyon Mine	Prospect	BA
Blue Dick	Past Producer	SB CU AU AG
Pittsburg	Past Producer	AU CU PB AG
Dean Canyon	Prospect	BA
Eagle Moniter	Past Producer	AG CU AU PB
Dusano & Logan	Past Producer	AU AG
Red Top Mine	Past Producer	AU BI CU AG TE
Celestine O'Neal	Past Producer	AU PB AG
Topsy	Past Producer	AG AU
Manganese Occurrence	Unknown	MN
Harmon Prospect	Unknown	SB
Miners Dream	Past Producer	AU AG
Kattenhorn Mine	Past Producer	AG SB CU AU PB
Miners Dream Placer	Past Producer	AU AG
Shoshone Range	Prospect	SIL
Blue Nose Mine	Past Producer	SB AU AG
O'Neal	Past Producer	AU AG

National Geochronological Database

Radiometric ages of geological materials by K-Ar, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, fission track, and U-Th-Pb dating methods. A revision of DDS-14 correcting locations and providing the data in more convenient formats.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Rock name
3535	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Tuff
3536	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Tuff
3537	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Dacite
16936	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Sandstone

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
C181648	stream/river

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
Gravel Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point	Pittsburg Mine
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Prospect Pit	point	Kattenhorn Mine
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Prospect Pit	point	Blue Dick Mine
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Mine Shaft	point
Prospect Pit	point
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Mine Shaft	point	Nelson Mine
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Prospect Pit	point
Adit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Nelson Mine
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Adit	point	Dean Mine
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Adit	point	Red Top Mine
Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Red Top Mine
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Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Pittsburg Mine
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Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Kattenhorn Mine
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Adit	point	Blue Dick Mine
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Gravel Pit	polygon