Major-oxide, minor-oxide, and trace-element geochemical data from rocks and stream sediments in the Wrangellia mineral assessment area, Gulkana, Healy, Mount Hayes, and Talkeetna Mountains quadrangles, Alaska

Mineral-resources geologists from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) carried out a helicopter-supported geological and geochemical resource assessment project in the Gulkana, Healy, Mount Hayes, and Talkeetna Mountains quadrangles from July 29 through August 16, 2013. The objectives of this assessment were to improve the publicly-available geological, geophysical, and geochemical data in the area of known occurrences in the Mount Hayes Quadrangle, and to extend this coverage and any gained insight westward into the less-explored extension of the Wrangellia terrane. This program of stream-sediment, pan-concentrate, and rock sampling was conducted as part of the State's Strategic Minerals...

Tags: Amphitheater Mountains, Copper, Geochemical Data, Geochemical Surveys, Geochemistry, All tags... Gold, Greenstone, Gulkana Quadrangle, Healy Quadrangle, Mount Hayes Quadrangle, Nickel, Pan Concentrates, Platinum Group Elements, Rare Earth Elements, Silver, Strategic and Critical Minerals Assessment Project, Stream Sediments, Talkeetna Mountains, Talkeetna Mountains Quadrangle, Trace Elements, Ultramafic, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

40Ar/39Ar data, Ray Mountains area, Bettles Quadrangle, Alaska

40Ar/39Ar analyses were performed on igneous rocks from the Ray Mountains area of west-central Alaska. The plutonic samples have ages from about 89 Ma to 109 Ma, while the volcanic samples show ranges from about 30 Ma to 64 Ma. The three volcanic samples fall into two age groups: the younger sample, a basalt, has an age of about 30 Ma, while the two older, rhyolitic samples fall between 58 Ma and 64 Ma. Analyses were performed by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geochronology Laboratory, and results were reported by Paul Layer and Jeff Benowitz. Products included in this data release are: a summary of sample collection method; the laboratory report, analytical data tables and associated metadata; and plots of...

Tags: 40Ar/39Ar, Age Dates, Analyses, Analyses and Sampling, Analytical Lab Results, All tags... Analytical Results, Ar-Ar, Bedrock, Bedrock Geology, Bettles Quadrangle, Geochronology, Geology, Lab Methods, Mineral Assessment, Mineral Deposit, Mineral Resources, Ray Mountains, Sample Location, Strategic and Critical Minerals Assessment Project, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Zircon U-Pb age data, Ray Mountains area, Bettles Quadrangle, Alaska

U-Pb analyses were performed on igneous rocks from the Ray Mountains area of west-central Alaska. These new age analyses will allow us to better evaluate the geochronology of the granitic rocks that are the apparent source of the alluvial REE and tin resources. The plutonic samples have ages ranging from 98.0 +/- 0.9 Ma to 111.6 +/- 1.0 Ma. The sample location coordinates and analytical data tables associated with this report are available in digital format as comma-separated value (CSV) files.

Tags: Age Dates, Analyses, Analyses and Sampling, Analytical Lab Results, Analytical Results, All tags... Bedrock, Bedrock Geology, Bettles Quadrangle, Geochronology, Geology, Igneous Rocks, Lab Methods, Metals, Mineral Assessment, Mineral Deposit, Mineral Resources, Minerals, Plutonic, Polymetallic, Rare Earth Elements, Ray Mountains, Sample Location, Strategic and Critical Minerals Assessment Project, Tin, U-Pb, Zircon, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Major-oxide, minor-oxide, and trace-element geochemical data from rocks in the Styx River area, Lime Hills C-1 Quadrangle, Lime Hills, McGrath, Talkeetna, and Tyonek quadrangles, Alaska

Geologists from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) Mineral Resources Section conducted four weeks of helicopter-supported mapping and fieldwork from June 26 through July 24, 2013. The Styx River project in the Lime Hills C-1 Quadrangle was part of the State-funded Airborne Geophysical/Geological Mineral Inventory (AGGMI) program as part of the State's Strategic Minerals Assessment Project, an initiative designed to evaluate Alaska's potential for rare-earth elements, PGEs, and other similarly supply-challenged resources. The Styx River project area has active and ongoing mineral exploration for deposit types including porphyry copper/molybdenum/gold, reduced intrusion-related gold, and...

Tags: Alaska Range, Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, All tags... Basalt, Base Metals, Bedrock, Beryllium, Bismuth, Cadmium, Calcium, Cerium, Cesium, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Critical Minerals, Dysprosium, Economic Geology, Erbium, Europium, Exploration, Felsic, Fluorine, Gadolinium, Galena, Gallium, Geochemical Data, Geochemical Surveys, Geochemistry, Geology, Germanium, Gold, Granite, Greisen, Hafnium, Heavy Metals, Holmium, Hornfels, Igneous Rocks, Iron, Lime Hills Quadrangle, Lode, Lutetium, Magnesium, Major Oxides, Manganese, McGrath Quadrangle, Metals, Mineral Assessment, Mineral Deposit, Mineral Localities, Mineral Resources, Minor Oxides, Molybdenum, Neodymium, Nickel, Niobium, Non-Metals, Palladium, Phosphorus, Platinum, Platinum Group Elements, Plutons, Potassium, Precious Metals, Promethium, Rubidium, Selenium, Silica, Silver, Sodium, Sphalerite, Strategic Minerals, Strategic and Critical Minerals Assessment Project, Strontium, Sulfides, Sulfur, Talkeetna Quadrangle, Tantalum, Thallium, Thorium, Tin, Titanium, Tourmaline, Trace Elements, Trace Metals, Tungsten, Tyonek Quadrangle, Uranium, Vanadium, Volcanic, Zinc, Zirconium, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Geochemical major-oxide, minor-oxide, trace-element, and rare-earth-element data from rocks and streams sediments collected in 2012 in the Ray Mountains area, Beaver, Bettles, Livengood, and Tanana quadrangles, Alaska

Mineral-resources personnel from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) carried out a helicopter-supported geological and geochemical resource assessment project in the Beaver, Bettles, Livengood, and Tanana quadrangles from June 23 through August 5, 2012. The objectives of DGGS's resource assessment are to improve the trace-element geochemical coverage of selected watersheds; to obtain modern, quantitative geochemical analyses; to understand the petrogenesis of the granites; and to better document established mineral occurrences. Stream-sediment, pan-concentrate, and rock sampling were conducted as part of the State's Rare Earth Elements and Strategic Minerals Assessment project, which is...

Tags: Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Augen Gneiss, Barium, All tags... Basalt, Base Metals, Batholith, Beaver Quadrangle, Bedrock, Beryllium, Bettles Quadrangle, Bismuth, Bonanza Creek, Cadmium, Calcium, Caribou Mountain, Cerium, Cesium, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Chromium, Coal Creek, Cobalt, Copper, Critical Minerals, Dall River, Dalton Highway, Dysprosium, Economic Geology, Erbium, Europium, Exploration, Felsic, Fish Creek, Fleshlanana Creek, Fluorine, Fort Hamlin Hills, Gadolinium, Galena, Gallium, Geochemical Data, Geochemical Surveys, Geochemistry, Geology, Germanium, Gishna Creek, Gneiss, Gobblers Knob, Gold, Granite, Greisen, Hafnium, Halu Creek, Heavy Metals, Holmium, Hornfels, Igneous Rocks, Iron, Ishtalitna Creek, Kanuti Hot Springs, Kanuti Kilolitna River, Kanuti River, Kilo Hot Springs, Koyuk Mining District, Lanthanide Elements, Lanthanum, Livengood Quadrangle, Lode, Lower Ray Hot Springs, Lutetium, Magnesium, Major Oxides, Manganese, McQuesten Creek, Metabasite, Metals, Metamorphic Rocks, Metasedimentary rocks, Metavolcanic rocks, Mineral Assessment, Mineral Deposit, Mineral Localities, Mineral Resources, Minor Oxides, Molybdenum, Monazite, Mount Henry Eakin, Mount Tozi, Neodymium, Nickel, Niobium, No Name Creek, Non-Metals, Palladium, Pan Concentrates, Phosphorus, Placer, Placer Gold, Platinum, Platinum Group Elements, Potassium, Praseodymium, Precious Metals, Promethium, Prospect Creek, Rare Earth Elements, Ray Mountains, Ray River, Ray River Hot Springs, Ree, Resource Assessment, Resources, Rhyolite, Rubidium, Samarium, Scheelite, Schist, Selenium, Silica, Silver, Sithylemenkat Lake, Sodium, Soil Chemistry, Soil Sampling, Sphalerite, Strategic Minerals, Stream Sediments, Strontium, Sulfides, Sulfur, Tanana Quadrangle, Tantalum, Thallium, Thorium, Tin, Titanium, Tokusatatquaten Lake, Torment Creek, Tourmaline, Trace Elements, Trace Geochemical, Trace Metals, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Tungsten, Upper Ray Hot Springs, Uranium, Vanadium, Volcaniclastics, Ytterbium, Zeunerite, Zinc, Zirconium, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Geochemical major-oxide, minor-oxide, trace-element, and rare-earth-element data from rock samples collected in 2013 in the Ray Mountains area, Bettles A-1 and A-6 quadrangles, Alaska

In 2012, the State of Alaska established its Strategic and Critical Minerals (SCM) Assessment project, a State-funded Capital Improvement Project (CIP), to evaluate Alaska's statewide potential for SCM resources. The project is being implemented by the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS), and involves obtaining new airborne-geophysical, geological, and geochemical data. For decades, the Ray Mountains area of west-central Alaska has been explored for its potential mineral resources. To further assess the rare-earth-element (REE) potential of the State-selected and top-filed lands in the Ray Mountains area, mineral-resource geologists at DGGS carried out a helicopter-supported geological and...

Tags: Base Metals, Batholith, Bedrock, Bettles Quadrangle, Cerium, All tags... Chlorite, Critical Minerals, Dalton Highway, Dysprosium, Economic Geology, Erbium, Europium, Exploration, Felsic, Fluorine, Fort Hamlin Hills, Gadolinium, Geochemical Data, Geochemical Surveys, Geochemistry, Geology, Gneiss, Greisen, Heavy Metals, Holmium, Hornfels, Igneous Rocks, Iron, Lanthanide Elements, Lanthanum, Lode, Lutetium, Major Oxides, Metals, Metamorphic Rocks, Metavolcanic rocks, Mineral Assessment, Mineral Deposit, Mineral Localities, Mineral Resources, Minor Oxides, Monazite, Neodymium, No Name Creek, Phosphorus, Placer, Praseodymium, Promethium, Rare Earth Elements, Ray Mountains, Ray River, Ree, Resource Assessment, Resources, Rhyolite, Rubidium, Samarium, Sample Location, Scheelite, Schist, Silica, Silver, Strategic Minerals, Strategic and Critical Minerals Assessment Project, Thallium, Thorium, Tin, Titanium, Tourmaline, Trace Elements, Trace Geochemical, Trace Metals, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags