Scientific data near [63.16900,-146.92840]

Search area extends approximately 0.6 km east-west and 1.2 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Matanuska-Susitna	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Mt Hayes A-6	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Mt Hayes	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Upper Susitna River	hydrologic unit
190205	hydrologic accounting unit
Northwest 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
Trn	Igneous - Volcanic	Nikolai and Goon Dip Greenstones and equivalent 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
East Alaska Range	M-Dz	East Alaska Range 43452 line km with spacing 1.20 km over parts of AK
East Alaska Range	M-Dz	East Alaska Range 43452 line km with spacing 1.20 km over parts of AK
Mt Hayes	M/R-D	Mt Hayes 2116 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Wrangellia	M/EM-D	Wrangellia 10547 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-SC05	Cu-Ag quartz veins
AK-SC03	Besshi massive sulfide
AK-SC21	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-SC28	Polymetallic vein
AK-SC25	Placer Au
AK-SC32	Cu (Au) skarn
AK-SC01	Basaltic Cu/Kennecott Cu
AK-SC18	Synorogenic-synvolcanic Ni-Cu
AK-SC09	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins
AK-SC22	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak 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
Wrangellia	Oceanic arc	Alaska

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
Yukon; Mendeltna	Inactive	Cu

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
Western Alaska Range	porphyry copper	Cretaceous porphyry prospects along the Kahiltna Basin-Peninsula terrane boundary
Eastern Alaska Range and Wrangell Mountains	porphyry copper	Cretaceous (115-105Ma) deposits and prospects along the Nutzotin Basin-Wrangellia terrane boundary; south of the Denali Fault
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.