Scientific data near [66.63010,-150.02610]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 5.6 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
Bettles C-1	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Bettles	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
South Fork Koyukuk River	hydrologic unit
190406	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
Pzls	Sedimentary	Limestone and marble
PzPxrqm	Metamorphic	Pelitic and quartzitic schist of the Ruby terrane

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 '72	M-D	Northeast Alaska '72 27841 line km with spacing 1.90 km over parts of AK
Bettles	M/R-D	Bettles 1810 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-EC13	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-EC14	Plutonic porphyry Au
AK-EC06	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins
AK-EC02	Cyprus massive sulfide
AK-EC18	Polymetallic vein
AK-EC15	Placer Au
AK-EC01	Besshi massive sulfide

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
Ruby	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
ACC578	sediment
ACC579	sediment
ACC580	sediment
ACC581	sediment
ACC582	sediment

Geochemistry of stream sediments in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of stream sediments and soils in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
7036730	1978-07-01	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
7037167		Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
7037170		Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
7037171		Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.

Geochemistry of water samples in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of water samples in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
3038599	1978-07-01	Stream water sample acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.

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
Bonanza	Prospect	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
Bonanza, Beef	Probably inactive	Mo;Pb;W;Zn

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
ACC578	stream/river	stream
ACC579	stream/river	stream
ACC580	stream/river	stream
ACC581	stream/river	stream
ACC582	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.