Scientific data near [65.44252,-144.75875]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 5.4 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Yukon-Koyukuk	Census area
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Circle B-2	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Circle	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Birch-Beaver Creeks	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
PzPxyqs	Metamorphic	Quartzite and pelitic schist
PzPxyqs	Metamorphic	Quartzite and pelitic schist
TKg	Igneous - Plutonic	Felsic granitic rocks

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
Northeast Alaska '73	M-D	Northeast Alaska '73 25044 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AK
Alaska Regional	M-Dz	Alaska Regional 14484 line km with spacing 16.10 km over parts of AK
Circle	M/R-D	Circle 1987 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Circle 1993	M/EM-D	Circle 1993 2517 line km with spacing 0.40 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-EC07	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins
AK-EC13	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-EC14	Plutonic porphyry Au
AK-EC18	Polymetallic vein
AK-EC15	Placer Au

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
Yukon-Tanana lower	Passive margin	Alaska

Alaska Geochemical Database, Version 2.0 (AGDB2)--including "best value" data compilations for rock, sediment, soil, mineral, and concentrate sample media

Geochemical analyses of rocks, mineral separates, bulk samples from lake and stream sediments, heavy mineral concentrates, and soils collected by USGS from 1962 to 2009.

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Lab ID	Sample medium	Description
BFO088	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
CEY856	rock	metamorphic quartzite
CEY857	rock	igneous basalt
CEY858	rock	metamorphic quartzite
D154227	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D154245	concentrate	panned C3 fraction

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
CEY856	metamorphic	quartzite
CEY857	igneous	basalt
CEY858	metamorphic	quartzite

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
88 Group	Occurrence	AU
88 Group	Occurrence	AU
Top Dollar	Occurrence	AU
Top Dollar	Occurrence	AU

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
88 Group	Active	Au
Top Dollar	Active	Au

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
CEJ205	stream/river	stream

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
BFO088	stream/river	stream
CEJ466	stream/river	stream
D154227	stream/river	stream
D154245	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
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.