Scientific data near [61.75736,-157.37460]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 4.7 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Bethel	Census area
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Sleetmute D-4	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Sleetmute	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Aniak	hydrologic unit
190305	hydrologic accounting unit
Yukon	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
Kk	Sedimentary	Kuskokwim Group, undivided
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
West-Central Alaska	M-D	West-Central Alaska 21360 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Sleetmute	M/R-D	Sleetmute 2365 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Sleetmute 2002	M/EM-D	Sleetmute 2002 5014 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-SW05	Peraluminous granite porphyry gold
AK-SW14	Placer Au
AK-SW13	Plutonic porphyry Au
AK-SW16	Polymetallic vein

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
Farewell buried	Back-arc basin	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
D570017	rock	igneous unspecified
D570018	rock	sedimentary sandstone

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
D386692	igneous	rhyolite
D386694	igneous	rhyolite
D386695	igneous	rhyolite
D386696	igneous	rhyolite
D570016	sedimentary	sandstone
D570017	igneous	unspecified
D570018	sedimentary	sandstone
F001679	unspecified

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
Fairview	Inactive	Hg

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
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.