Scientific data near [36.53797,-117.75499]

Search area extends approximately 8.9 km east-west and 11.1 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
Cerro Gordo Peak	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Saline Valley	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Death Valley	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

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
Mesozoic granitic rocks, unit 3 (Sierra Nevada, Death Valley area, Northern Mojave Desert and Transverse Ranges)	CA	Permian to Tertiary; most Mesozoic
Permian marine sedimentary rocks, unit 1 (Death Valley and Mojave Desert)	CA	Pennsylvanian to Triassic
Paleozoic marine rocks, undivided, unit 1 (Mojave Desert and Death Valley area)	CA	Late Proterozoic to Jurassic
Quaternary alluvium and marine deposits	CA	Pleistocene to Holocene
Triassic marine rocks, unit 1 (Death Valley area and Mojave Desert)	CA	Early to Middle 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
Inyo Extension	M-D	Inyo Extension 685 line km with spacing 0.80 km over parts of CA
Death Valley	M/R-D	Death Valley 13487 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CA-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
GB01	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB07	Porphyry Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB14	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	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
5156959	1979-09-13	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.
5156960	1979-09-13	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.

Sediment-hosted zinc-lead deposits of the world - Database and grade and tonnage models

This report provides information on sediment-hosted zinc-lead mineral deposits based on the geologic settings that are observed on regional geologic maps.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Cerro Gordo	CAig	California, United States

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
LMD176	unidentified
LMD177	sedimentary	shale
LMD181
LMD182
LMD183
LMD184
LMD213	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LMD214	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LMD215
LME007
LME008	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LME011
LME012
LME013
LME014	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LME257
LME258
LME259
LME260
LME261
LME331
LME332	unidentified
LME333
LMF306
LMF307
LMF308
LMF309
LMF310
LMF311	metamorphic	marble
LMF312	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LMF313
LMF314	sedimentary	limestone/dolomite
LMF315
LMF316
M174094	igneous	mafic
M174095	igneous	mafic
M174096	igneous	mafic
M174097	igneous	mafic
M174098	igneous	mafic
M174101	igneous	mafic
M174105	igneous	mafic
M197303	sedimentary	dolomite
W181961	igneous	andesite
W181962	igneous	andesite
W181963	igneous	andesite
W181964	igneous	rhyolite
W181965	igneous	rhyolite
W181966	igneous	rhyolite
W181967	igneous	quartz latite

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
Cerro Gordo	Past Producer	AG PB ZN AU CU
Cerro Gordo	Past Producer	PB AG ZN CU AU
Newsboy	Past Producer	PB AG AU CU
Royal Group	Past Producer	PB ZN AG AU CU
Cerro Gordo Mine	Occurrence	HG
San Lucas	Past Producer	PB CU AG AU
Cerro Gordo Mine	Occurrence	AG PB ZN BI
Holiday Nos. 1, 2, and 4	Past Producer	TLC
Bean-Smith	Occurrence	PB CU
Talc	Unknown	TLC
Santa Cruz Mine	Past Producer	AU
Berry Hill	Occurrence	PB CU AG
San Lucas	Past Producer	PB AU AG ZN
Ella Group	Past Producer	PB CU AU AG ZN
Cerro Gordo Mine	Past Producer	PB CU AU AG ZN
Lookout No. 1	Occurrence	PB AG
Royal Group	Past Producer	PB CU AU AG ZN
Mcdonald	Occurrence	PB CU AG
Belmont	Past Producer	PB CU AG
(Facility) Four Metals Smelter	Plant	PB AG
Santa Cruz Mine	Prospect	AU
Newsboy	Past Producer	PB CU 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
7204	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Quartz monzonite

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
D200979	stream/river	sand; clastic; lithic; SEIVED DRAINAGE SEDIMENTS (< 500 UM); stream
LMD247	stream/river	stream
LMD251	stream/river	stream
LMD252	stream/river	stream
LMD253	stream/river	stream
LMD261	stream/river	stream
LMD262	stream/river	stream
LMD263	stream/river	stream
LMD264	stream/river	stream
LMD265	stream/river	stream
LMD977	stream/river	stream
LMD981	stream/river	stream
LMD982	stream/river	stream
LMD983	stream/river	stream
LMD984	stream/river	stream
LMD985	stream/river	stream
LME917	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
D202012	stream/river	sand; clastic; lithic; DRAINAGE SEDIMENT HEAVY MINERAL CONCENTRATE; stream
LMD477	stream/river	stream
LMD478	stream/river	stream
LMD479	stream/river	stream
LMD480	stream/river	stream
LMD481	stream/river	stream
LMF465	stream/river	stream
LMF469	stream/river	stream
LMF470	stream/river	stream
LMF471	stream/river	stream
LMF784	stream/river	stream
LMF788	stream/river	stream
LMF789	stream/river	stream
LMF790	stream/river	stream
LMF792	stream/river	stream
LMF794	stream/river	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
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
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point	Ella Mine
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Mine Shaft	point	Morning Star Mine
Mine Shaft	point	Newtown Mine
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Mine Shaft	point	Cerro Gordo Mine
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Open Pit Mine	point	Holiday Mine
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Open Pit Mine	point
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Open Pit Mine	point	Cerro Gordo Mine
Open Pit Mine	point
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Prospect Pit	point
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Adit	point
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Adit	point	Omega Tunnel
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Adit	point	Silver Spear Mine
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Adit	point	Belmont Mine
Adit	point	San Luis Mine
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Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Belmont Mine
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Mine Dump	polygon