Scientific data near [65.58700,-167.95900]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 10.8 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
Teller C-6	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Teller	1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Imuruk Basin	hydrologic unit
190501	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
Clgk	Sedimentary	Kogruk Formation
Klgr	Igneous - Plutonic	Intermediate granitic rocks
OPxpt	Sedimentary	Older rocks of York terrane and Grantley Harbor Fault zone

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
Teller	M/R-D	Teller 1126 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

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

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
BEW971	concentrate	panned C1 fraction
BFE514	concentrate	panned C1 fraction
D152065	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
D153531	concentrate	panned C3 fraction
M133096	rock	igneous granite
M133113	rock	igneous granite
W235184	rock	igneous granite
W235185	rock	igneous granite
W235197	rock	igneous granite
W235202	rock	igneous granite
W235205	rock	igneous granite
W235208	rock	igneous granite
W235209	rock	igneous granite

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
M133096	igneous	granite
M133113	igneous	granite
W235184	igneous	granite
W235185	igneous	granite
W235197	igneous	granite
W235205	igneous	granite
W235208	igneous	granite
W235209	igneous	granite

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
Cape Mountain Deposit	Past Producer	SN F W ZN
First Chance Creek	Past Producer	SN
Bartels Mine	Past Producer	SN
Cape Mountain Lode	Past Producer	SN
Unnamed (on south side of First Chance Creek valley)	Occurrence	SN
First Chance Creek Placer	Past Producer	SN
Cape Creek Placer Mine	Producer	SN AU
Unnamed (on north side of Cape Creek valley)	Occurrence	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
First Chance Creek; American Tin...	Inactive	Sn
Bartels Mine; Cape Mountain; Can...	Inactive	Sn
Unnamed (on south side of First ...	Inactive	Sn
Unnamed (on north side of Cape C...	Inactive	Sn

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
BEW971	stream/river	stream
BFE514	stream/river	stream
D152065	stream/river	stream
D153531	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.

USMIN Mineral Deposit Database

A developing national-scale geospatial database that will be an authoritative source of information on the most important mines, mineral deposits, and mineral districts of the United States.

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Site name	Feature type	Commodities
Bartels Mine	Portal Mine	tin
Cape Mountain	Deposit	tin