Scientific data near [37.40000,-121.42000]

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

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Stanislaus	county
California	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Mount Boardman	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
San Jose	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
San Jose	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Panoche-San Luis Reservoir	hydrologic unit
San Joaquin	hydrologic accounting unit
San Joaquin	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
Mesozoic gabbroic rocks, unit 2 (undivided)	CA	Triassic to Cretaceous
Franciscan melange	CA	Jurassic to Cretaceous
Ultramafic rocks, chiefly Mesozoic, unit 3 (Coast Ranges and Western Klamath Mountains)	CA	Middle to Late 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
San Francisco '73	M-D	San Francisco '73 11909 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CA
San Jose '89-'90	M-D	San Jose '89-'90 6570 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of CA
San Jose	M/R-D	San Jose 5182 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of 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
PC11	Massive sulfide, Besshi	Mesozoic
PC34	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary
PC39	Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein	Mesozoic

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
Franciscan	Accretionary wedge	Western Cordillera

Podiform chromite deposits

Location and characteristics of 1,124 individual mineral deposits of this type, with grade and tonnage models for chromium as well as several related elements.

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Record	Type	Comment
Adobe Canyon Group
Black Bear
Lucky Girl
No. 5 Mine

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
D219638	igneous	ultramafic
D219639	igneous	ultramafic
D219640	igneous	ultramafic
D219641	igneous	ultramafic
D219642	igneous	ultramafic
D219643	igneous	ultramafic
M111227	igneous	pyroxenite
M111228	igneous	peridotite
M140039	igneous	dunite
M140040	igneous	dunite
M140041	igneous	peridotite
M140043	igneous	pyroxenite
M146387	igneous	peridotite
M146388	igneous	peridotite
M146389	igneous	gabbro
M160995	igneous	pyroxenite
W186918	igneous	pyroxenite

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
Lucky Girl Mine	Past Producer	CR PGE_PT PGE_PD PGE_IR PGE_RU PGE_RH
Adobe Canyon Group Deposits	Past Producer	CR
Number Fire Group	Past Producer	CR
Black Bart Group	Past Producer	CR FE
Adobe Canyon Group	Past Producer	CR FE
Gerber Deposit	Producer	MN
Number 5 Group	Past Producer	CR FE
Black Wonder Sec.28 Group.	Past Producer	MN SIL
Claim 14	Occurrence	MN
Claim 14 Black Wonder Group	Prospect	FE MN SIL
Mary Lou No. 1of Black Wonder	Prospect	FE MN SIL
Blackbird Claim	Occurrence	MN
May Be Claim	Occurrence	MN
Black Mike Claim	Occurrence	MN
Black Bear Mine	Producer	CR
Platner Prospect	Past Producer	CR
Cottonwood	Producer	MN
Jones Group	Producer	MN
Murmac Group	Past Producer	MN SIL
Mexican Prospect	Occurrence	MN
Lucky Girl	Past Producer	CR
Unnamed Prospect	Occurrence	CR PGE_PT PGE_PD PGE_IR PGE_RU PGE_RH
Platner	Past Producer	CR
Rmca Group	Producer	MN
Black Bear	Past Producer	CR
Hampton	Occurrence	CR
Cottonwood Claim /Blackwonder	Unknown	MN
Mary Lou No. 1	Occurrence	MN
Black Bolt Claim	Occurrence	MN
Chicago Claim / Black Wonder	Occurrence	MN
Hampton Mine	Producer	CR
Section 28	Occurrence	MN
Patterson Claim	Unknown	MN
Mexican Prospect No. 3	Past Producer	MN SIL
Triple Jump Claim	Occurrence	MN
Patterson Claim / Black Wonder	Occurrence	MN
Unidentified Workings	Occurrence	CR
Beauregard Group	Past Producer	MN
Brown Group	Past Producer	MN
Park Group	Occurrence	MN
Mexican Prospect No. 1	Unknown	MN SIL
G. L. Fenster	Occurrence	MG
Jones Group	Past Producer	MN
Park Group	Past Producer	FE
Chicago Claim	Unknown	MN
Manganese Prospect	Occurrence	MN
May Be Claim	Unknown	MN
Blackbird Claim	Prospect	MN

An index to PGE-Ni-Cr deposits and occurrences in selected mineral-occurrence databases (web-accessible database)

A compendium of references to previously published databases and database records that describe PGE, nickel, and chromium deposits and occurrences. These data show where to obtain more detailed information about each deposit or occurrence.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Platner Prospect	Past Producer	California, United States
Adobe Canyon Group Deposits	Past Producer	California, United States
Lucky Girl Mine	Past Producer	California, United States
Black Bear Mine	Producer	California, United States
Number Fire Group	Past Producer	California, United States
Hampton Mine	Producer	California, United States
Black Bart Mine Group	Past Producer	California, United States
Number 5 Group	Past Producer	California, United States
Adobe Canyon Group	Past Producer	California, United States
Lucky Girl	Past Producer	California, United States
Platner	Past Producer	California, United States
Black Bear	Past Producer	California, United States
Unnamed Prospect	Occurrence	California, United States
Unidentified Workings	Occurrence	California, United States
Hampton	Occurrence	California, United States
Black Bart Group	Past Producer	California, United States

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
9983	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Peridotite

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
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
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine or Quarry	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine	point	Western Mine