Scientific data near [64.49000,-165.50000]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 10.3 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
Nome B-1	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Nome	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle

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
Qs	Unconsolidated	Unconsolidated surficial deposits, undivided
w		Water

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
Cady	M-D	Cady -9999 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of AK
Nome 1993	M/EM-D	Nome 1993 3856 line km with spacing 0.40 km over parts of AK
Nome	M/R-D	Nome 346 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-WC17	Placer Au
AK-WC01	Besshi massive sulfide
AK-WC09	Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins
AK-WC27	Sedex Zn-Pb

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

Major mineral deposits of the world

Regional locations and general geologic setting of known deposits of major nonfuel mineral commodities. Originally compiled in five parts by diverse authors, combined here for convenience despite likely inconsistencies among the regional reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Commodity
Nome	Surficial	gold

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
AFL439	sediment
AFL440	sediment
AFL441	sediment
AFL442	sediment
AFL443	sediment
AFL444	sediment
AFL445	sediment
AFL446	sediment
AFL447	sediment
AFL448	sediment
AFL449	sediment
AFL450	sediment
AFL451	sediment
AFL452	sediment
AFL453	sediment
AFL454	sediment
AFL455	sediment
AFL456	sediment
AFL457	sediment
AFL458	sediment
AFL459	sediment
AFL536	sediment
AFQ013	sediment
AFQ014	sediment
AFQ015	sediment
AFQ016	sediment
AFQ017	sediment
AFQ018	sediment
AFQ019	sediment
AFQ020	sediment
AFQ021	sediment
AFQ022	sediment
AFQ023	sediment
AFQ038	sediment
AFQ039	sediment
AFQ040	sediment
AFQ041	sediment
BFG050	concentrate	panned C1 fraction
D129726	concentrate	panned only concentrate
D154276	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
M129730	sediment
M129731	sediment
M129732	sediment
M129733	sediment
M129734	sediment
M129735	sediment
M129736	sediment

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
Nome Offshore Placer deposits	Producer	AU AG
Nome	Occurrence	AU FE PGE AG SN

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
Nome Offshore Placer deposits	Active	Au

An index to PGE-Ni-Cr deposits and occurrences in selected mineral-occurrence databases (web-accessible database)

A compendium of references to previously published databases and database records that describe PGE, nickel, and chromium deposits and occurrences. These data show where to obtain more detailed information about each deposit or occurrence.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Location
Nome	Occurrence	Alaska, United States

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
14355	Outcrop or artificial surface exposure	Gneiss

National Geochemical Database: Sediment

Geochemical analysis of sediment samples from the National Geochemical Database. Primarily inorganic elemental concentrations, most samples are of stream sediment in the continental US and Alaska.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Sample notes
M129706	beach/dune/loess	bulk sample. Nome beach;; beach
M129730	marine environment	bulk sample. USBM drill sample;
M129731	marine environment	bulk sample. USBM drill sample;
M129732	marine environment	bulk sample. USBM drill sample;
M129733	marine environment	bulk sample. USBM drill sample;
M129734	marine environment	bulk sample. USBM drill sample;
M129735	marine environment	bulk sample. USBM drill sample;
M129736	marine environment	bulk sample. USBM drill sample;

National Geochemical Database: Concentrate

Geochemistry of concentrates from the National Geochemical Database. Primarily inorganic elemental concentrations, most samples are from the continental US and Alaska.

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Sample ID	Sample source	Sample notes
BFG050	stream/river	stream
D129726	beach/dune/loess	heavy mineral concentrate. >3.3 s.g. beach sands;; beach
D154276	stream/river	stream

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.