Scientific data near [45.29000,-117.37000]

Search area extends approximately 17.8 km east-west and 25.3 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Wallowa	county
Oregon	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Chief Joseph Mountain	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Enterprise	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Grangeville	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Wallowa	hydrologic unit
Lower Snake	hydrologic accounting unit
Lower Snake	hydrologic subregion
Pacific Northwest	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Eagle Cap Wilderness	Wilderness
Wilderness FS	Type of land area
FS	Federal land areas administered by FS
Wallowa National Forest	National Forest
National Forest FS	Type of land area
FS	Federal land areas administered by FS

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	OR	Triassic to Jurassic
Intrusive rocks	OR	Jurassic to Cretaceous
Alluvial deposits	OR	Holocene
Fanglomerate	OR	Pleistocene to Holocene
Glacial deposits	OR	Pleistocene
Columbia River Basalt Group and related flows	OR	Miocene
Grande Ronde Basalt	OR	Early to Middle Miocene
Marine sedimentary rocks	OR	Early Triassic
Volcanic and metavolcanic rocks	OR	Late Triassic

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
Eagle Cap	M-Dz	Eagle Cap 1255 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of OR
Grangeville	M/R-D	Grangeville 2636 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of ID-OR-WA
Pendleton 2017	M-D	Pendleton 2017 34524 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of OR

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
PC02	Skarn Au, truncated	Mesozoic
PC06	Porphyry Cu (BC-AK)	Mesozoic - Tertiary
PC01	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
PC13	Massive sulfide, kuroko	Permian
PC38	Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein	Mesozoic

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
Foothills-Wallowa	Oceanic arc	Western Cordillera

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
BBV601
BBV602
BBV603
BBV604
BBV605	metamorphic	hornfels
BBV611	metamorphic	hornfels
BBV612	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV613	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV614	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV615	metamorphic	hornfels
BBV616	metamorphic	hornfels
BBV626	igneous	granodiorite
BBV627	igneous	granodiorite
BBV628	igneous	alaskite
BBV633	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV643	igneous	intermediate
BBV648	igneous	mafic
BBV652	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV657	igneous	granodiorite
BBV664	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV665	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV667	metamorphic	skarn
BBV668	metamorphic	skarn
BBV669
BBV670	igneous	granodiorite
BBV671	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV672	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV673	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV674	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV675	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV676	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV677	metamorphic	quartzite
BBV678	sedimentary	carbonate
BBV700	igneous	granodiorite
BBV701	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV702	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV703	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
BBV704	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
BBV705
BBV706	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV707	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV708	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
BBV709	sedimentary	conglomerate
BBV712	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV713	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV714	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV715	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV716	igneous	felsic
BBV717	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
BBV718	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
BBV719	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV720	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
BBV722	sedimentary	conglomerate
W178789	igneous	basalt

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
Contact Group	Occurrence	CU W MO AU AG
Matterhorn	Occurrence	MO CU W
Metzger Property	Occurrence	MO W CU AG
Gyllenberg Claims	Occurrence	PB ZN AU AG
Le Gore Prospect	Occurrence	AU AG MO CU ZN W
Good Enough Prospect	Occurrence	AU CU PB AG ZN
Hard Climb Prospect	Occurrence	AU PB ZN CU AG
Peacock	Prospect	CU AU MO AG W
Lost Creek Quartz Prospect	Prospect	CU NI ABR_G AU MO AG
Le Gore Prospect	Prospect	CU AU MO AG W ZN
Peritite Claim	Occurrence	AU AG CU
Metzger Property	Prospect	CU MO AG W
Falls Creek Forest Camp	Occurrence	AG AU CU PB ZN
Vancouver	Occurrence	CU PB MO ZN
Red Cloud	Occurrence	CU PB MO STN
Cold Springs Contact	Occurrence	AU AG
Oregon	Occurrence	AG CU
Brown Lead	Occurrence	CU
Wilson Mine	Occurrence	CU
Spangled Treasure	Occurrence	CU
Last Chance	Occurrence	AG CU
Old Francis Lake Trail	Occurrence	AG CU PB
Discovery	Occurrence	AG AU
Frances Lake Ridge	Occurrence	AU AG CU
Molybdenum-Copper Occurence	Occurrence	AG CU AU MO
Wilson Mine	Prospect	CU
Contact	Occurrence	MO
Le Gore	Occurrence	AU AG CU MO
Metzger	Occurrence	MO W
Wilmot, Matterhorn	Occurrence	MO
Wallowa Cement & Lime	Occurrence	LST
Contact Group	Prospect	CU AU MO AG
Hurricane Creek	Occurrence	LST_D
Last Chance Prospect	Prospect	AG CU
Frances Lake Ridge Prospect	Prospect	CU AU AG
Hurraican Creek	Occurrence	LST
Brown Lead Prospect	Prospect	CU
Wilmot Property	Prospect	W
Falls Creek Forest Camp	Prospect	CU AU PB AG ZN
Good Enough Prospect	Prospect	CU AU PB AG ZN
Old Frances Lake Trail Prospects	Prospect	AG CU PB
Molybdenum-Copper Occurence	Occurrence	CU AU MO AG
Spangled Treasure Prospect	Prospect	CU
Wilmot	Occurrence	W
Peritite Lode Prospect	Occurrence	AU AG
Oregon Lode Prospect	Prospect	AG CU
Red Cloud Prospect	Prospect	CU PB MO
Wallowa Cement & Lime	Prospect	STN_C
Matterhorn Prospects	Prospect	CU MO STN_C
Peritite Claim	Prospect	AU CU AG
Discovery Prospect	Prospect	AU AG
Hard Climb Prospect	Prospect	CU AU PB AG ZN
Vancouver Claim	Prospect	CU PB MO ZN
Peritite Prospect	Prospect	AU AG
Hurricane Creek	Occurrence	LST S_P
Contact Group	Occurrence	AU MO AG
Hurricane Creek	Occurrence	LST
Limestone/Marble Occurrence	Past Producer	STN
Cold Springs Contact Prospect	Prospect	AU AG
Limestone Marble Occurrence	Occurrence	LST

An index to PGE-Ni-Cr deposits and occurrences in selected mineral-occurrence databases (web-accessible database)

A compendium of references to previously published databases and database records that describe PGE, nickel, and chromium deposits and occurrences. These data show where to obtain more detailed information about each deposit or occurrence.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Lost Creek Quartz Prospect	Occurrence	Oregon, United States

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
8889	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granitoid
8890	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granitoid
8891	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Aplite
8892	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz diorite
8893	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Aplite
8894	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granodiorite
8896	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz diorite
8897	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz diorite
8898	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz diorite
8899	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Gabbro
8900	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Gabbro

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
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
Prospect Pit	point
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	Legore Mine
Adit	point
Adit	point	Legore Mine