Scientific data near [42.26650,-123.83452]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 3.0 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Curry	county
Oregon	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Pearsoll Peak	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Grants Pass	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Medford	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Chetco	hydrologic unit
Southern Oregon Coastal	hydrologic accounting unit
Oregon-Washington Coastal	hydrologic subregion
Pacific Northwest	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
Ultramafic and related rocks of ophiolite sequences	OR	Paleozoic(?), Triassic(?), and Jurassic
Volcanic rocks	OR	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
Medford '78	M-Dz	Medford '78 5978 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of OR
Josephine	M-Dz	Josephine 3218 line km with spacing 0.80 km over parts of OR
Medford	M/R-D	Medford 4707 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of CA-OR

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
PC03	Skarn Cu	Mesozoic
PC08	Porphyry Cu	Mesozoic
PC10	Massive sulfide, Cyprus	Jurassic
PC14	Massive sulfide, Sierran kuroko	Jurassic
PC40	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
Foothills-Wallowa	Oceanic arc	Western Cordillera

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
D223734	igneous	peridotite
DAD164
W213410	igneous	peridotite

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
Sourdough Flat Nickel Deposit	Prospect	CR CO FE NI
Eagle Mountain Prospect	Occurrence	CR PGE_PT PGE_PD PGE_RH
Miller Creek Gossan	Occurrence	CU AU AG
Stone Prospect	Occurrence	CU
Sourdough Flat	Occurrence	NI CR CO
Hanscum	Producer	CR
Olive B.	Occurrence	CR
Eagle Mountain Prospect	Prospect	CR
Miller Creek Gossan	Prospect	CU AU AG
Empire Prospect	Occurrence	AU
Olive B.	Prospect	CR
Empire Prospect	Past Producer	AU
Unnamed Prospect	Prospect	CR

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
Mccaleb No. 2	Past Producer	Oregon, United States
Hanscum	Producer	Oregon, United States
Wonder Group	Past Producer	Oregon, United States
Uncle Sam Slide Creek	Past Producer	Oregon, United States
Little Siberia	Past Producer	Oregon, United States
Mccaleb No. 1	Past Producer	Oregon, United States
Wonder Group	Past Producer	Oregon, United States
Little Siberia Mine	Past Producer	Oregon, United States
Mccaleb\'s Sourdough No. 2 Mine	unclassified	Oregon, United States
Slide Creek Chromite Claims	Past Producer	Oregon, United States
Uncle Sam Mine	Past Producer	Oregon, United States
Mc Caleb Group	Producer	Oregon, United States
Sourdough Flat	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Wonder Group	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Marcella	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Hay Prospect	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Olive B.	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Lost Is Found	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Unnamed Prospect	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Sourdough No. 1	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Lost Is Found Claim	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Marcella	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Mccaleb\'s Sourdough No. 1 Prospect	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Olive B.	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Sourdough Flat Nickel Deposit	Occurrence	Oregon, United States
Hays Prospect	Occurrence	Oregon, United States

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
LDQ786	stream/river	xcoord=431650; ycoord=467915; stream

National Geochemical Database: Soil

Geochemical analysis of soil samples 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
D223678	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL
D223679	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL
D223680	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL
D223681	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL
D223682	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL
W213301	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL
W213302	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL
W213303	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL
W213304	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL
W213305	shrub/sage/chaparral/brush covered	LATERITE SOIL

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
LEA074	stream/river	xcoord=431650; ycoord=467915; stream
LEA106	stream/river	xcoord=431650; ycoord=467915; stream

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
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine	polygon