Scientific data near [59.56583,-150.58722]

Search area extends approximately 17.8 km east-west and 35.2 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Kenai Peninsula	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Seldovia C-2	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Seldovia	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Western Prince William Sound	hydrologic unit
190202	hydrologic accounting unit
Northwest Alaska	hydrologic subregion
Alaska	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Kenai Fjords National Park	National Park
National Park NPS	Type of land area
NPS	Federal land areas administered by NPS

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
Kaf	Sedimentary	Chugach flysch
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
w		Water

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
Cook Inlet '76-'77	M-D	Cook Inlet '76-'77 9258 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Seldovia	M/R-D	Seldovia 933 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-SC25	Placer Au
AK-SC12	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins, Chugach 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
Chugach	Accretionary wedge	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
ACH016	sediment
ACH018	sediment
ACH031	sediment
ACH033	sediment
ACH035	sediment
ACH044	sediment
ACH045	sediment
ACH047	sediment
AFP826	sediment
AFP827	sediment
AFP828	sediment
AFP829	sediment
AFP830	sediment
AFP831	sediment
AFP832	sediment
AFP833	sediment
AFP834	sediment
AFP835	sediment
AFP852	sediment
AFP853	sediment
AFP854	sediment
AFP855	sediment
CEW602	rock
CEW610	rock
CEW615	rock
CEW617	rock
CEW621	rock
CEW627	rock
CEW628	rock
CEW629	rock
D310685	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D310716	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D310757	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D311009	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D311018	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382642	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382644	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382647	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382648	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382651	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382653	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382658	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382674	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382678	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382680	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382686	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382691	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382699	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382705	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D382750	sediment
D382753	sediment
D382762	sediment
D382763	sediment
D382768	sediment
D382788	sediment
D382797	sediment
D382798	sediment
D382801	sediment
D384835	sediment
D384839	sediment
D384860	sediment
D384870	sediment
D384911	sediment
D386092	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D386097	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D386240	sediment
D386268	sediment
D520264	rock
D520266	rock	igneous unspecified
D520445	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D520501	sediment
D521847	rock
D521848	rock
D521850	rock
D521852	rock
D521854	rock	igneous felsic
D521855	rock	sedimentary sandstone
D521856	rock	sedimentary sandstone
D521857	rock	sedimentary sandstone
D521859	rock	igneous unspecified
D521860	rock
D525506	rock	igneous unspecified
D525507	rock	igneous unspecified
D525508	rock	igneous unspecified
D525513	rock	igneous unspecified
D525514	rock	igneous unspecified
D525529	rock	sedimentary sandstone
D525532	rock	metamorphic slate
D525538	rock	metamorphic slate
D525546	rock	sedimentary sandstone
D525549	rock	metamorphic slate
D525551	rock	sedimentary sandstone
D525552	rock	metamorphic slate
D537182	rock
D537187	rock
D537200	rock
D537241	rock	sedimentary graywacke
D537242	rock	igneous unspecified
F001146	rock
F001594	sediment
F001600	sediment
F001647	sediment
F001651	sediment
F001666	sediment

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
CEW602	unspecified
CEW610	unspecified
CEW615	unspecified
CEW617	unspecified
CEW621	unspecified
CEW627	unspecified
CEW628	unspecified
CEW629	unspecified
D520264	unspecified
D520266	igneous	unspecified
D521847	unspecified
D521848	unspecified
D521850	unspecified
D521852	unspecified
D521854	igneous	felsic
D521855	sedimentary	sandstone
D521856	sedimentary	sandstone
D521857	sedimentary	sandstone
D521859	sedimentary	sandstone
D521860	unspecified
D525506	igneous	unspecified
D525507	igneous	unspecified
D525508	igneous	unspecified
D525513	igneous	unspecified
D525514	igneous	unspecified
D525529	sedimentary	sandstone
D525532	metamorphic	slate
D525538	metamorphic	slate
D525546	sedimentary	sandstone
D525549	metamorphic	slate
D525551	sedimentary	sandstone
D525552	metamorphic	slate
D537241	sedimentary	graywacke
D537242	igneous	unspecified
F001146	unspecified

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
Alaska Hills Corp.	Past Producer	AU AG
Nuka Bays Mining Company	Past Producer	AU AG
Hatcher	Prospect	AG AU CU PB ZN
Rossness & Larson	Past Producer	AU AG
Charles Frank	Past Producer	AU
Frank Long	Prospect	AG AU
Frank	Past Producer	AU AG
Nuka Bay	Occurrence	AU CU PB AG ZN
Unnamed (near Shelter Cove)	Occurrence	AU
Nuka Bay	Past Producer	AU AG
Alaska Hills	Past Producer	AU
Nuka Bay Prospect	Occurrence	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
Nukalaska; Honolulu Group	Inactive	Au
Frank Long	Inactive	Ag;Au
Alaska Hills Corp.; Paystreak & ...	Inactive	Au
Nuka Bays Mining Company; Nookas...	Inactive	Au
Charles Frank	Inactive	Au
Rossness & Larson	Inactive	Au
Hatcher; Utopia; North Gold	Inactive	Ag;Au
Unnamed (near Shelter Cove)	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
ACH016	stream/river	stream
ACH018	stream/river	stream
ACH031	stream/river	stream
ACH044	stream/river	stream
ACH045	stream/river	stream
ACH047	stream/river	stream
D382750	stream/river	unconsolidated sediments;; stream
D382753	stream/river	unconsolidated sediments;; stream
D382762	stream/river	unconsolidated sediments;; stream
D382763	stream/river	unconsolidated sediments;; stream
D382768	stream/river	unconsolidated sediments;; stream
D382788	stream/river	unconsolidated sediments;; stream
D382797	stream/river	unconsolidated sediments;; stream
D382798	stream/river	unconsolidated sediments;; stream
D382801	stream/river	unconsolidated sediments;; stream
D384835	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
D384839	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
D384860	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
D384870	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
D384911	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
D386240	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
D386268	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
D520501	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
F001594	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
F001600	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
F001647	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
F001651	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; stream
F001666	stream/river	unconsolidated sediment;; 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
D310685	stream/river	stream
D310716	stream/river	stream
D310757	stream/river	stream
D311009	stream/river	heavy mineral conc: C3 frac;; stream
D311018	stream/river	heavy mineral conc: C3 frac;; stream
D382642	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382644	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382647	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382648	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382651	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382653	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382658	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382674	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382678	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382680	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382686	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382691	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382699	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D382705	stream/river	concentrates, C3 fraction;; stream
D386092	stream/river	concentrates;; stream
D386097	stream/river	concentrates;; stream
D520445	stream/river	concentrate;; 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
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.