Scientific data near [37.20789,-117.69879]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 5.6 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Inyo	county
California	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Hanging Rock Canyon	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Last Chance Range	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Goldfield	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Eureka-Saline Valleys	hydrologic unit
Northern Mojave	hydrologic accounting unit
Northern Mojave-Mono Lake	hydrologic subregion
California	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Death Valley Wilderness	Wilderness
Wilderness NPS	Type of land area
NPS	Federal land areas administered by NPS
Death Valley National Park	National Park
National Park NPS	Type of land area
NPS	Federal land areas administered by NPS

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
Carboniferous marine rocks, unit 3 (SE California Clastic Assemblage)	CA	Late Devonian to Early Permian
Cambrian marine rocks	CA	Late Proterozoic to Middle Devonian
Plio-Pleistocene and Pliocene loosely consolidated deposits	CA	Miocene to Pleistocene

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
White & Inyo Mountains D	M-D	White & Inyo Mountains D 5713 line km with spacing 0.80 km over parts of CA-NV
Western Nevada	M-Dz	Western Nevada 26457 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV-CA
Goldfield	M/R-D	Goldfield 5182 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NV-CA

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
GB01	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB14	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB07	Porphyry Cu	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

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
5158223	1980-04-03	Stream sediment sample from dry stream, sieved to less than 149 microns (-100 mesh), and dried (if necessary) at less than or equal to 110øC.

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
EPX461
EPX462	sedimentary	shale
EPX463	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX464	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX466	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX467	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX468	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX469	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX470	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX471	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX477	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX478	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX479	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX480	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX481	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX485
EPX486	sedimentary	shale
EPX487	sedimentary	shale
EPX488	sedimentary	shale
EPX489	sedimentary	conglomerate
EPX490	metamorphic	quartzite
EPX491	sedimentary	shale
EPX492	sedimentary	shale
EPX493
EPX494	sedimentary	shale
EPX495	metamorphic	quartzite
EPX496	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX497	metamorphic	quartzite
EPX505	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX506
EPX507
EPX508	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX509	sedimentary	shale
EPX510	sedimentary	conglomerate
EPX511	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX512	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
EPX565	sedimentary	shale
LMA026
LMA521
LMC547
LMC548	metamorphic	quartzite
LMD536	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LMD537	metamorphic	quartzite
LMD538
LMD539	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LMD540	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LMD541	sedimentary	siltstone
LME020	metamorphic	quartzite
LME021	metamorphic	quartzite
LME022	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LME199
LME200

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
Fraction and Southwest	Unknown	S
Unnamed Prospect	Unknown	S
Christopher No. 2 Prospect	Unknown	HG
Crater Mine	Producer	GYP S
Rebecca Prospect	Prospect	HG AU
Aloha Prospect	Prospect	HG
Soliz & Vaseta	Unknown	S
Midas No. 5	Unknown	S
Gulch Group	Unknown	TLC
Lime Hill No. 1	Producer	LST_D
Crater Group	Past Producer	S

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
EMN975	stream/river	SD; stream
LMA007	stream/river	stream
LMA157	stream/river	stream

National Geochemical Database: Concentrate

Geochemistry of concentrates 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
EMV733	stream/river	C3; stream

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
Open Pit Mine	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
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Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Adit	point