Scientific data near [60.85937,-157.38277]

Search area extends approximately 1.1 km east-west and 2.3 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Dillingham	Census area
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Taylor Mts D-4	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Taylor Mts	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Holitna River	hydrologic unit
190304	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
Taylor Mountains 2004	M-D	Taylor Mountains 2004 14435 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of AK
Taylor Mountains	M-D	Taylor Mountains 2253 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Taylor Mts	M/R-D	Taylor Mts 2269 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-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

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
Unnamed (south of Taylor Mountains)	Occurrence	AU AG HG

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
Unnamed (south of Taylor Mountai...	Undetermined	Au

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.