Scientific data near [39.94239,-119.28792]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Washoe	county
Nevada	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Russell Peak	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Reno	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Reno	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Pyramid-Winnemucca Lakes	hydrologic unit
Truckee	hydrologic accounting unit
Central Lahontan	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
Jungo Terrane - Turbiditic, fine-grained, terrigenous clastic rocks	NV	Middle Jurassic to Upper Triassic
Alluvium, undifferentiated	NV	Holocene and Pleistocene
Andesite and basalt flows	NV	Miocene and Oligocene
Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks	NV	Miocene (?) to Jurassic (?)

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
Reno	M/R-D	Reno 4787 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
GB23	Epithermal vein, Comstock	Tertiary
GB28	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary
GB30	Sediment-hosted Au	Phanerozoic
GB18	Distal disseminated Ag-Au	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB05	Skarn Au, truncated	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB15	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB02	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB10	Porphyry Cu	Jurassic
GB08	Porphyry Cu	Cretaceous
GB09	Porphyry Cu	Tertiary
GB26	Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite	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
Shoofly-Olds Ferry	Oceanic arc	Western Cordillera

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-551952	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
5152244	1979-06-02	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.
5152245	1979-06-02	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.
5152246	1979-06-02	Stream sediment sample from dry stream, sieved to greater than 149 microns (+100 mesh) but less than 1,000 microns (-18 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
D289236	metamorphic	skarn
D289237	metamorphic	skarn
D320331	igneous	granodiorite
D321046	metamorphic	metasediment
D321047	metamorphic
D321048	metamorphic
D321049	metamorphic
D321050	metamorphic
D321051	metamorphic
D321052	metamorphic
D321053	metamorphic	JAROSITE
D321054	metamorphic
D321055	metamorphic

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
Crosby Mine	Past Producer	W AU AG CU BI MO
White Blowout	Occurrence	W
Quartz Prospectce	Prospect	SIL
Winnemucca Lake Deposit	Prospect	SIL
Crosby Tungsten Mine	Past Producer	W
Black Warrier Prospect	Occurrence	AU
Gold Ridge Prospect	Occurrence	AU
Lizard Claims Nos. 1-5	Prospect	AU W U

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
D551952	stream/river	Stream Sediment >100 Mesh
EQW585	stream/river	stream
EQX521	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
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
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Prospect Pit	point
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Adit	point
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Adit	point	Tunnel
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Adit	point	Tunnel
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