Scientific data near [38.77090,-117.82597]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Nye	county
Nevada	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Paradise Peak	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Ione Valley	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Tonopah	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Gabbs Valley	hydrologic unit
Central Nevada Desert Basins	hydrologic accounting unit
Central Nevada Desert Basins	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 alluvium and alluvial fan deposits	NV	Pleistocene and Pliocene
Intermediate andesite and intermediate flows and breccias	NV	lower Miocene and Oligocene
Walker Lake Terrane - Pamlico-Lodi assemblage - Carbonate and volcanogenic rocks	NV	Middle (?) Jurassic 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
Paradise Peak	M-D	Paradise Peak 1794 line km with spacing 0.80 km over parts of NV
Western Nevada	M-Dz	Western Nevada 26457 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV-CA
Tonopah	M/R-D	Tonopah 4858 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
GB28	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary
GB15	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB05	Skarn Au, truncated	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB18	Distal disseminated Ag-Au	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB02	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB08	Porphyry Cu	Cretaceous
GB09	Porphyry Cu	Tertiary
GB10	Porphyry Cu	Jurassic
GB23	Epithermal vein, Comstock	Tertiary
GB26	Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite	Tertiary
GB28	Hot-spring Au-Ag	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
Golconda-Roberts Mountain	Accretionary wedge	Western Cordillera

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
5164620	1977-08-23	Dry stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns).
5164621	1977-08-23	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
DAH745	igneous	felsic
DAH746	igneous	felsic
DAH749	igneous	felsic
DAH750	igneous	felsic
DAH753	igneous	felsic
DAH757	igneous	felsic
DAH761	igneous	felsic
DAH762	igneous	felsic
DAH971	igneous	felsic
DAI131	igneous	felsic
DAI132	metamorphic	hornfels
DAI133	unidentified	quartz
DAI134	igneous	felsic
ELP499	sedimentary	limestone
ELP500	sedimentary	limestone
MBF220	metamorphic	skarn
MBF221	unidentified

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
Big Dyke Property	Occurrence	AU
Mildred Mine	Occurrence	CU PB
White Diamond Mine	Past Producer	AU AG W
Unknown Prospect	Prospect	AU CU MO AG W

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
16842	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Granite

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
EMX454	stream/river	SD; 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
EPF247	stream/river	C; 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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Mine Shaft	point	Mildred Mine
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Prospect Pit	point	Sunnyside Mine
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Mine Shaft	point	Mildred Mine
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Mine Shaft	point
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Adit	point	Sunnyside Mine
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