Scientific data near [67.30722,-156.69444]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 5.8 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Northwest Arctic	Borough
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Ambler River B-2	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Ambler River	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Middle Kobuk River	hydrologic unit
190503	hydrologic accounting unit
South Central 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
DPxacs	Metamorphic	Calcareous schist of Brooks Range
DPxacs	Metamorphic	Calcareous schist of Brooks Range
DPxaqm	Metamorphic	Quartz-mica schist of the Brooks Range

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
Baird Mtns.-Ambler River	M-Dz	Baird Mtns.-Ambler River 14323 line km with spacing 1.20 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-BR21	Sediment-hosted Cu
AK-BR04	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins
AK-BR09	Mississippi Valley Type
AK-BR13	Placer Au
AK-BR06	Kipushi Cu-Pb-Zn

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
Brooks Range	Passive margin	Alaska

Radiometric ages of rocks from Alaska

Radiometric ages of rocks or minerals sampled from Alaska. The data were collected from professional publications and/or received from researchers and used by permission.

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Record	Type	Comment
74AWM309
73RR75-3

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
W188408	rock	metamorphic metafelsite

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
W188408	metamorphic	metafelsite

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
Horse Creek	Prospect	CU PB ZN

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
Horse Creek; Cliff; Dh; Lost	Probably inactive	Cu;Pb;Zn

National Geochronological Database

Radiometric ages of geological materials by K-Ar, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, fission track, and U-Th-Pb dating methods. A revision of DDS-14 correcting locations and providing the data in more convenient formats.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Rock name
15334	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Schist
15344	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Schist

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
Brooks Range	porphyry copper	Proterozoic, Devonian, or Cretaceous grantitic intrusions in the Brooks Range.
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.