Scientific data near [52.82000,173.42000]

Search area extends approximately 8.9 km east-west and 14.7 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Aleutians West	Census area
Alaska	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Attu C-2	1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle
Attu	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
QTv	Igneous - Volcanic	Young volcanic rocks, undifferentiated
w		Water

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-AP05	Epithermal vein, generic
AK-AP10	Porphyry Cu, BC-Ak type
AK-AP14	Polymetallic vein

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A comprehensive database of Alaskan mineral deposits compiled from the published literature and from unpublished reports and data from industry, the US Bureau of Land Management, and USGS.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 (west of Chirikof Point)	Inactive	Fe

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
Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands	porphyry copper	Tertiary felsic to intermediate composition intrusions of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands
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.
Kamchatka-Kuril	porphyry copper	Latest Cretaceous through Quaternary volcanic and intrusive rocks representing a series of continental- and island-arc systems accreted and superimposed onto the margin of northeast Asia.