Scientific data near [39.49716,-117.06482]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.9 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
Austin	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Smith Creek Valley	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Millett	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
Older felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks	NV	Jurassic

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
Austin '67	M-Dz	Austin '67 901 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV
Millett	M/R-D	Millett 4828 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
GB30	Sediment-hosted Au	Phanerozoic
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
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
Golconda-Roberts Mountain	Accretionary wedge	Western Cordillera

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
97-ML-153	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
5148196	1976-09-30	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
1090196	1976-09-30	Spring 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
D197697	igneous	intermediate
W250456	igneous	quartz monzonite

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
Austin Handpan Mine	Past Producer	AG AU PB
Austin Manhattan Mine	Past Producer	AG AU CU PB
Austin Mining Mine	Past Producer	AG AU CU PB
Austin Nevada Mine	Past Producer	AG AU CU PB
Austin Silver Mine	Past Producer	AG AU CU PB
Jackscrew Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Jacobs Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Jo Lane Ledge Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Lander City Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Silver Wedge Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Buel North Star Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Diana Gold and Silver Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Florida Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Great Eastern Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Isabella Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Morse Ledge Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Moss Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Seymour Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
South American Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Southern Light Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Ward Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Warren Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Washington Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Wilder Mine	Past Producer	AG AU PB CU
Pacific Mine	Past Producer	AG CU
Plymouth Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Samanthe Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Saratoga Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Savage Gold and Silver Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Dollarhide Hedge Mine	Past Producer	AG AU CU PB
Magnolia Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Troy Gold and Silver Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Bedford Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Mohawk Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Emigrant Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
Providential Mine	Past Producer	AG AU
North Star Mine	Past Producer	AU
Blue Incline	Unknown	AG
Seymour	Past Producer	AG AU
Luetgen Tunnel	Unknown	AG
Slaughter House Canyon Mine	Past Producer	AG
Austin Custom Mill	Past Producer	SB AU PB AG ZN
Morgan and Munsey	Past Producer	AG AU
Homestake	Unknown	AG
Eclipse Tunnel	Unknown	AG CU AU
Samanthe	Past Producer	AG AU
Lander Hill Mining Co Claims	Past Producer	AG MO
Isabella and Magnolia Inclines	Past Producer	AG
Nevada Equity Mines	Past Producer	PB CU AG ZN
New York and Austin	Past Producer	AG AU
Diana Shaft	Unknown	AG
London Incline	Unknown	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
2782	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Adamellite
3144	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz monzonite
3167	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granitoid
3548	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz monzonite
4150	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz monzonite

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
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
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
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Prospect Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
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
Mine Shaft	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point	Kilborn Tunnel
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Mine Dump	polygon
Mine Dump	polygon
Mine Dump	polygon
Mine Dump	polygon
Mine Dump	polygon
Mine Dump	polygon
Mine Dump	polygon