Geochemical reanalysis of rock and sediment samples from the Lower Middle Fork of the Salmon River collected as part of the Idaho Primitive Area Studies in the 1960’s through 1980’s

This is a geochemical data set from the reanalysis of 44 rock samples collected between 1966 and 1970, and 107 sediment samples collected in 1966 and 1967. These samples were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey for a study investigating the mineral resources of the Idaho Primitive Area (Cater et al., 1973). The samples are from the Lower Middle Fork of the Salmon River, including the tributaries of Big Creek, Camas Creek, Brush Creek, Wilson Creek, Waterfall Creek, Ship Island Creek, Reese Creek, Stoddard Creek, and Papoose Creek. The overall objective of this study is to characterize the regional impact of legacy mining for the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area. Mary P. Rossillon (1981) explored...

Categories: Data; Tags: Annie Creek, Atomic absorption analysis, Atomic emission spectroscopy, Beaver Creek, Big Creek, All tags... Big Ramey Creek, Biotite, Biotite-feldspar, Biotite-muscovite, Botha Creek, Brush Creek, Cabin Creek, Calc-silicate rock, Camas Creek, Camp Creek, Canyon Creek, Cave Creek, Challis intrusive, Challis volcanic group, Chemical analysis, Chlorite-biotite, Cliff Creek, Coin Creek, Copper Creek, Coxey Creek, Crooked Creek, Diorite, Eagan Creek, Fawn Creek, GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geochemistry, Geology, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Glacial deposit, Gneiss, Granite, Granodiorite, Hand Creek, Holy Terror Creek, Hornblende-biotite, Idaho, Idaho Primitive Area, Jackass Creek, Lake Creek, Lapilli tuff, Latite, Lehmi group, Lewis Creek, Little Marble Creek, Little Ramey Creek, Logan Creek, Lower Middle Fork Salmon, MRP, Mass spectroscopy, Metasedimentary rock, Middle Fork Salmon River, Middle Fork terraces, Migmatite, Mineral Resources Program, Monumental Creek, Moore Creek, Mule Creek, Neoproterozoic intrusive, Paint Creek, Papoose Creek, Parker Mountain, Phyllite, Porphyry, Quartzite, Quartzose, Rainbow Creek, Reese Creek, Rhyolite, Rush Creek, Schistose, Seafoam, Sedimentology, Ship Island Creek, Smith Creek, Snowslide Creek, Stoddard Creek, Sunnyside tuff, Syenite, Telephone Creek, Threemile Creek, Thunder Mountain, Timm Creek, Trap Creek, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Waterfall Creek, Wildhorse Creek, Wilson Creek, Windermere supergroup, Woodtick Creek, Yellowjacket, Yellowjacket Creek, Fewer tags

Geochemical Data Release for Idaho Primitive Area, including the contiguous Clear Creek-Upper Big Deer Creek Area, the Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, the Sawtooth Primitive Area, and adjacent areas, central Idaho (ver. 1.2, June 2022)

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release (ver. 1.2, April 2022) contains a set of previously unpublished geochemical data from project studies of primitive areas in central Idaho, including the Clear Creek-Upper Big Deer Creek Area, the Salmon River Breaks and Sawtooth Primitive Areas, and the Gospel-Hump Wilderness Area. The purpose of the USGS Idaho Primitive Area studies, conducted from 1966 to 1984, was to describe the geology, determine petrologic and geochemical characteristics, and evaluate the mineral resource potential of these primitive areas and adjacent study areas. In the case of the Idaho Primitive Area study (Cater and others, 1973), the primitive area covers 1,915 square miles; adjacent...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Big Deer Creek, Bitterroot National Forest, Blaine County, Boise County, Boise National Forest, All tags... Boise River, Camas County, Challis National Forest, Clear Creek, Clear Creek-Upper Big Deer Creek Area, Custer County, Elmore County, Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho, Idaho County, Idaho Primitive Area, Lemhi County, NGDB, National Geochemical Database, Nez Perce National Forest, Payette National Forest, Payette River, Salmon National Forest, Salmon River, Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, Salmon River Mountains, Sawtooth National Forest, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Sawtooth Primitive Area, Sawtooth Range, Sawtooth Wilderness, Stanley Basin, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, Valley County, Yellowjacket Mountains, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, cadmium, calcium, cerium, chemical analysis, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, environmental geochemistry, erbium, europium, exploration geochemistry, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, heavy metals, holmium, indium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mineral resources, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, pan concentrate, platinum, praseodymium, rhenium, rock geochemistry, samarium, scandium, sediment geochemistry, silver, stream sediment, strontium, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, unconsolidated deposits, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Geochemical reanalysis of rock and sediment samples from the Middle Fork and South Fork of the Salmon River collected in the mid-1960s through the early 1970s as part of the Idaho Primitive Area studies

This data release is a geochemical data set from the reanalysis of 23 rock and 85 sediment samples collected between 1966 and 1970 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for a series of studies investigating the mineral resources of the Idaho Primitive Area (Cater et al., 1973). The samples are from the upper Middle Fork Salmon River and the South Fork Salmon River, including the tributaries of East Fork of the South Fork and Porphyry Creek. The overall objective of this study is to characterize the regional impact of legacy mining for the Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness Area. In 1980 the U. S. Congress passed the Central Idaho Wilderness Act which combined the Idaho Primitive Area, the Salmon Rivers...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Automatic Creek, Beansnapper Creek, Bear Creek, Big Chief Creek, Big Cottonwood Creek, All tags... Cabin Creek, Cache Creek, Cane Creek, Canyon Creek, Challis Volcanic Group, Colorado, Colt Creek, Cornish Creek, Cultus Creek, Dewey Mine, East Fork Indian Creek, East Fork South Fork Salmon River, East Fork Springfield Creek, East Fork Trail Creek, Forty-five Creek, Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness Area, GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Glass Mountain, Gunsight Formation, Idaho, Idaho Primitive Area, Indian Creek, Little Indian Creek, Little Loon Creek, Little Pistol Creek, Loon Creek, Luger Creek, MRP, Marble Creek, Mearney Creek, Middle Fork Indian Creek, Middle Fork Salmon River, Middle Fork terraces, Mineral Resources Program, North Fork Porphyry Creek, North Fork Wolf Fang Creek, Pistol Creek, Poee Creek, Porphyry Creek, Profile Creek, Pungo Creek, Rapid River, Ryan Creek, Salmon Rivers Breaks Primitive Area, Shrapnel Creek, Silver Plume, South Fork Salmon River, South Fork Wolf Fang Creek, Spring Creek, Springfield Creek, Sugar Creek, Sunnyside tuff, Tamarack Creek, Thirty-two Creek, Thunder Mountain Caldera, Trail Creek, Trigger Creek, Twenty-five Creek, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Middle Fork Salmon River, West Fork Little Loon Creek, West Fork Trail Creek, Wolf Fang Creek, alluvium, arsenic, atomic absorption analysis, atomic emission spectroscopy, biotite, carbonate rock, chemical analysis, clastic rock, conglomerate, copper, critical minerals, foliation, geochemistry, geology, gneiss, granite, granodiorite, hornblende, hornblende-biotite, hydride generation, lapilli tuff, mass spectroscopy, metallic mineral resources, migmatite, mineral deposits, mineral resources, mineralization, muscovite sulfides, muscovite-biotite, nonmetallic mineral resources, pebble conglomerate, phyllite, porphyry, quartz, rhyolite, rock drainage, sandstone, tributary, tuff, volcanic rock, Fewer tags