Scientific data near [40.81889,-117.42667]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Humboldt	county
Nevada	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Goldrun Creek	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Winnemucca	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Winnemucca	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Middle Humboldt	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
Golconda Terrane - Basinal, volcanogenic, terrigenous clastic, and minor carbonate rocks	NV	Permian to Upper Devonian
Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks	NV	Cretaceous
Older alluvium and alluvial fan deposits	NV	Pleistocene and Pliocene

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
Winnemucca '69	M-Dz	Winnemucca '69 1599 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
GB19	Massive sulfide, Cyprus	Paleozoic
GB08	Porphyry Cu	Cretaceous
GB10	Porphyry Cu	Jurassic
GB23	Epithermal vein, Comstock	Tertiary
GB26	Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite	Tertiary
GB28	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary
GB30	Sediment-hosted Au	Phanerozoic
GB05	Skarn Au, truncated	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB15	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB02	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB09	Porphyry Cu	Tertiary
GB18	Distal disseminated Ag-Au	Mesozoic - Tertiary

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
D-550910	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
5149248	1976-09-22	Dry stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns).

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
AKF405	igneous	felsic
AKF406	igneous	felsic
AKF407	igneous	felsic
AKF408	igneous	mafic
AKF409	igneous	mafic
AKF410	igneous	mafic
AKF411	igneous	mafic
AKF413
AKF489	igneous	felsic
AKF490	igneous	mafic
AKF814	unidentified	quartz
AKF815	igneous	mafic
AKF816	igneous	mafic
AKF817	igneous	mafic
AKF818	unidentified	quartz
AKF819
AKF820	igneous	mafic
AKF821	unidentified	quartz
AKF822	igneous	mafic
AKF823
AKF824	metamorphic	schist
AKF825	metamorphic	schist
AKF826	igneous	felsic
AKF827	igneous	mafic
AKF868	unidentified	quartz
AKF869	unidentified	chert
AKF870	unidentified	chert
AKF871	unidentified	chert
AKF872	unidentified	chert
AKF873	metamorphic	phyllite/slate
AKF874	igneous	mafic
AKF875	unidentified	chert
AKF876	igneous	mafic
AKF877	igneous	mafic
AKF878	igneous	mafic
AKF881	igneous	mafic
AKF882	igneous	mafic
AKF883	igneous	mafic
AKF896	igneous	mafic
AKG831	igneous	felsic
AKG832	igneous	mafic
AKG858
AKG860	igneous	mafic
BBG042
BBG043
BBG044
BBG045
BBG046
BBG047
BBG048
BGL418
BGL419
BGL420
BGL421
BGL422
BGL423
BGL424
BGL425
BGL426
BGL427
BGL428
BGL429
BGL430
BGL431
BGL432
BGL433
BGL434
BGL435
BGL437
BGL438
BGL439
BGL440
BGL441
BGL442
BGL443
BGL444
BGL445
BGL446
BGL447
BGL448
BGL449
BGL450
BGL451
BGL452
BGL453
BGL454
BGL468
BGL469
BGL470
BGL471
BGL478
BGL479
BGL480
BGL481
BGL482
BGL485
BGL487
BGL488
BGL489
BGL490
BGL491
D197727	igneous	intermediate
M112351	igneous	granodiorite

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
Gold Run No. 23 Claim	Occurrence	AG CU MO W MN CR BI
Copper Head Property	Occurrence	CU MO AG
Molybdenum Occurrence	Occurrence	MO
Molybdenum Occurrence	Occurrence	MO
Copper Head Property	Prospect	CU MO

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
Gold Run No. 23 Claim	Occurrence	Nevada, United States

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
D550910	surface

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
BGL436	mine/quarry/prospect pit	S; dump or prospect pit

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
Adit	point
Adit	point	Mine