Scientific data near [63.06568,-149.96171]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 4.9 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
Healy A-6	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Healy	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Chulitna 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
g	Unconsolidated	Glaciers
JTrrb	Sedimentary	Red and brown sedimentary rocks and basalt
Trlb	Sedimentary	Limestone and basalt sequence

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
Talkeetna-Anchorage	M-Dz	Talkeetna-Anchorage 28968 line km with spacing 1.20 km over parts of AK
Healy '82	M-D	Healy '82 3975 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AK
Healy	M/R-D	Healy 2116 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Chulitna	M/EM/V-D	Chulitna 2647 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-SC21	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-SC28	Polymetallic vein
AK-SC31	Cu (Au) skarn
AK-SC25	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
Chulitna-Broad Pass	Oceanic 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
Unnamed (divide between upper Partin and Shotgun creeks)	Prospect	AG AU CU SB
Partin Creek	Prospect	CU SB AS AU PB AG ZN
Unnamed (northeast of upper Partin Creek)	Prospect	AG AU CU SB

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
Unnamed (northeast of upper Part...	Probably inactive	Ag;Au;Cu
Unnamed (divide between upper Pa...	Probably inactive	Ag;Au;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
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.