Scientific data near [39.59292,-119.90212]

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
Verdi	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Reno	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Reno	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Honey-Eagle Lakes	hydrologic unit
North Lahontan	hydrologic accounting unit
North Lahontan	hydrologic subregion
California	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Toiyabe National Forest	National Forest
National Forest FS	Type of land area
FS	Federal land areas administered by FS

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
Metavolcanic rocks	NV	Jurassic (?) and Triassic (?)
Playa, lake bed, and flood plain deposits	NV	Holocene and 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
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
GB18	Distal disseminated Ag-Au	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB15	Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb	Mesozoic - Tertiary
GB05	Skarn Au, truncated	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
EQQ859	Sediment	Soil

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
5152690	1979-06-19	Soil sample sieved to less than 149 microns (-100 mesh).
5152691	1979-06-19	Soil sample sieved to less than 149 microns (-100 mesh).
5152692	1979-06-19	Soil sample sieved to greater than 149 microns (+100 mesh) but less than 1,000 microns (-18 mesh).

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
D329584
D330173	metamorphic	metavolcanic
D330174	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
Golden Fleece	Past Producer	AU AG CU PB ZN SB
Fravel Mine	Past Producer	AU AG CU PB ZN
Paymaster	Past Producer	AU AG CU PB ZN
Fravel Mines	Past Producer	AU CU PB AG
Paymaster Mine	Past Producer	AG CU AU PB ZN
Golden Fleece Mine	Past Producer	AU CU AG

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
EQQ859	stream/river	stream
EQQ878	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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Feature ID	Feature type	Feature name
Mine Shaft	point	Paymaster Mine
Mine Shaft	point	Golden Fleece Mine
Prospect Pit	point
Mine Shaft	point	Fravel Mine
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Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point	Golden Fleece Mine
Prospect Pit	point
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