Scientific data near [65.07900,-147.30400]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 10.6 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Fairbanks North Star	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Livengood A-1	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Livengood	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Chena River	hydrologic unit
190405	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
Pze	Metamorphic	Eclogite and associated rocks
Pze	Metamorphic	Eclogite and associated rocks
PzPxyqs	Metamorphic	Quartzite and pelitic schist
PzPxyqs	Metamorphic	Quartzite and pelitic schist
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided

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
Northeast Alaska '73	M-D	Northeast Alaska '73 25044 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AK
Big Delta-Fairbanks	M-Dz	Big Delta-Fairbanks 25749 line km with spacing 1.20 km over parts of AK
Fairbanks EM West	M-D	Fairbanks EM West 5385 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of AK
Fairbanks 1994	M/EM-D	Fairbanks 1994 4325 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-EC05	Au-Sb veins
AK-EC07	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins
AK-EC08	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
CGL559	sediment
CGL560	sediment
CGL561	sediment
CGL562	sediment
CGL563	sediment
CGL564	sediment
CGL565	sediment
CGL579	rock	metamorphic schist
CGL580	rock	metamorphic gneiss
CGL624	rock	metamorphic schist
CGL625	rock	metamorphic schist
CGL626	rock	metamorphic schist

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
CGL579	metamorphic	schist
CGL580	metamorphic	gneiss
CGL624	metamorphic	schist
CGL625	metamorphic	schist
CGL626	metamorphic	schist

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
Rob Roy	Past Producer	AU SB
Ohio	Past Producer	AU AG PB SB
Excelsior	Prospect	AU AG PB SB
Governor	Past Producer	AU
Whitehorse	Past Producer	AU PB SB
Mizpah	Past Producer	AU AG MN PB SB W
Gilmore	Past Producer	AU SB PB MN AG W
Nars Anderson	Prospect	AU
Fairbanks Creek	Past Producer	AU AG
Schaefer	Prospect	AG
Plumbum	Prospect	AU
Too Much Gold Creek	Past Producer	AU
Excelsior	Past Producer	AU SB PB AG
Gilmore	Prospect	AU
Iowa	Prospect	AU AG
Hi-Yu	Past Producer	AU AG SB PB ZN
Fairbanks Creek	Occurrence	W SB AU SN AG
Mizpah	Past Producer	W AU SB PB MN
Mizpah Mine	Past Producer	AU AG SB W PB
Unnamed (on Fairbanks Creek)	Prospect	AU AG

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
Iowa	Inactive	Au
Nars Anderson; Dorando	Inactive	Au
Rob Roy; Saucy; Wolf	Inactive	Au
Gilmore	Inactive	Au
Ohio; Early Bird; Mayflower; Con...	Inactive	Au
Schaefer	Inactive	Ag
Unnamed (on Fairbanks Creek)	Inactive	Au
Plumbum	Inactive	Au
Too Much Gold Creek	Inactive	Au
Whitehorse	Inactive	Au
Governor	Inactive	Au
McNeil; Branholm-Jenkins	Inactive	Sb
Too Much Gold	Inactive	Au
Excelsior; Cross Vein	Inactive	Au
Mizpah; Black Joe	Inactive	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
CGL559	mine dump/waste rock
CGL560	mine dump/waste rock
CGL561	mine dump/waste rock
CGL562	mine dump/waste rock
CGL563	mine dump/waste rock
CGL564	mine dump/waste rock
CGL565	mine dump/waste rock

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.

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	HI-YU Mine
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Open Pit Mine	polygon