Scientific data near [65.82000,-164.51000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 5.4 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Nome	Census area
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Bendeleben D-6	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Bendeleben	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Goodhope-Spafarief Bay	hydrologic unit
190502	hydrologic accounting unit
South Central Alaska	hydrologic subregion
Alaska	hydrologic region
Areas administered by US Federal agencies
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve	National Preserve
National Preserve NPS	Type of land area
NPS	Federal land areas administered by NPS

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
DOnx	Metamorphic	Marble, graphitic rocks, and schist
Pzncs	Metamorphic	Younger schist

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
Seward-Selawik	M-D	Seward-Selawik 12279 line km with spacing 9.60 km over parts of AK
Cady	M-D	Cady -9999 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of AK
Bendeleben	M/R-D	Bendeleben 1528 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-WC09	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins
AK-WC27	Sedex Zn-Pb
AK-WC17	Placer Au
AK-WC01	Besshi massive sulfide

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-Seward	Passive margin	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 (northwest of headwaters of Humbolt Creek)	Occurrence	AU CU PB SN 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
Unnamed (northwest of headwaters...	Inactive	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
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.