Scientific data near [64.95494,-154.89719]

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
Ruby D-4	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Ruby	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Melozitna River	hydrologic unit
190407	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
Kmqm	Igneous - Plutonic	Quartz monzonite, monzonite, and syenite
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
Ruby 1975	M-D	Ruby 1975 5310 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AK
Ruby	M/R-D	Ruby 2188 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
West-Central Alaska	M-D	West-Central Alaska 21360 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-EC01	Besshi massive sulfide
AK-WC22	Polymetallic vein
AK-WC17	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
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
W198827	rock	metamorphic gneiss

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
W198827	metamorphic	gneiss

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
Bull Ridge	Active	Cu;Zn

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
Koyukuk Arc	porphyry copper	Late Jurassic (?) and Early Cretaceous Koyukuk island arc.
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.