Scientific data near [65.05000,-150.98000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 5.3 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
Tanana A-2	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Tanana	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Lower Tanana 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
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
Northeast Alaska '72	M-D	Northeast Alaska '72 27841 line km with spacing 1.90 km over parts of AK
Rampart-Manley	M-D	Rampart-Manley 4828 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of AK
Tanana	M/R-D	Tanana 1882 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Rampart-Manley extended	M/EM-D	Rampart-Manley extended 7510 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-EC14	Plutonic porphyry Au
AK-EC06	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins
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
Wickersham	Passive margin	Alaska

An index to PGE-Ni-Cr deposits and occurrences in selected mineral-occurrence databases (web-accessible database)

A compendium of references to previously published databases and database records that describe PGE, nickel, and chromium deposits and occurrences. These data show where to obtain more detailed information about each deposit or occurrence.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Deep Creek and Tributaries Placer	Past Producer	Alaska, United States

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.

USMIN Mineral Deposit Database

A developing national-scale geospatial database that will be an authoritative source of information on the most important mines, mineral deposits, and mineral districts of the United States.

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Site name	Feature type	Commodities
Deep Creek	Placer Mine	gold; silver; tin