Scientific data near [65.46000,-141.13000]

Search area extends approximately 1.1 km east-west and 2.7 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Southeast Fairbanks	Census area
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Charley River B-1	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Charley River	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Eagle to Circle	hydrologic unit
190404	hydrologic accounting unit
Southwest Alaska	hydrologic subregion
Alaska	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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Map symbol	Lithology	Unit name
Kkg	Sedimentary	Flysch and quartzite, Kandik Group and equivalents
TKs	Sedimentary	Conglomerate, sandstone, and lignite

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
Alaska Regional	M-Dz	Alaska Regional 14484 line km with spacing 16.10 km over parts of AK
Eagle-Talkeetna	M-D	Eagle-Talkeetna 19942 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Charley River	M/R-D	Charley River 1987 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK

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
AK-EC16	Polymetallic replacement
AK-EC19	Cu (Au) skarn
AK-EC21	Sedex Zn-Pb
AK-EC20	Zn-Pb skarn
AK-EC09	Kipushi Cu-Pb-Zn
AK-EC11	Mississippi Valley Type

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
Laurentia triangle	Continental arc	Alaska

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
Ettrain Creek	Prospect	ZN AS CD CU PB SB W

Alaska Resource Data File

A comprehensive database of Alaskan mineral deposits compiled from the published literature and from unpublished reports and data from industry, the US Bureau of Land Management, and USGS.

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Site	Status	Commodities
Ettrain Creek	Active	Zn

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
Yukon-Tanana Upland	porphyry copper	Kluane Arc and Tertiary Kuskokwim Mountains volcanic-plutonic belt (continuation of Canadian Cordilleran continental arc); north of the Denali Fault
Chukotka	porphyry copper	Early to Late Cretaceous volcanic and intrusive rocks composing island-arc, continental-arc, and collisional magmatic belts associated with the Chukotka microcontinent.
Pacific Margin	porphyry copper	Cretaceous through middle Tertiary volcanic and intrusive rocks representing a series of continental- and island-arc systems accreted and superimposed onto the paleomargin of northeast Asia.