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

Porphyry copper deposits and prospects in the Andes Mountains of South America

The Andes Mountains of South America host significant porphyry copper deposits. The region is the major global source of copper and an area of active mining, exploration, and development. The Andes region was included in USGS global compilations of porphyry deposits published by Singer and others in 2005 and 2008. Since that time, many new discoveries and new resource data have become available. This compilation includes new and updated location, references, and grade and tonnage data for porphyry copper deposits in the Andes along with grade and tonnage data from the previous compilations. The data release includes a data table, references, and shapefiles of porphyry copper locations and political boundaries.

Categories: Data; Tags: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Copper, Deposits, All tags... Ecuador, Mineral Resources, Mineral Resources, Peru, Porphyry, South America, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), geoscientificInformation, 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

Data and results for GIS-based identification of areas that have resource potential for lode gold deposits in Alaska

This data release contains the analytical results and evaluated source data files of geospatial analyses for identifying areas in Alaska that may be prospective for different types of lode gold deposits, including orogenic, reduced-intrusion-related, epithermal, and gold-bearing porphyry. The spatial analysis is based on queries of statewide source datasets of aeromagnetic surveys, Alaska Geochemical Database (AGDB3), Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF), and Alaska Geologic Map (SIM3340) within areas defined by 12-digit HUCs (subwatersheds) from the National Watershed Boundary dataset. The packages of files available for download are: 1. LodeGold_Results_gdb.zip - The analytical results in geodatabase polygon feature...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alaska, Alaska lode gold geology, Alaska lode gold geology geochemistry, Economic Geology, Epithermal, All tags... Geochemistry, Geochemistry, Geographic Information System (GIS), Geology, Gold, Lode gold, Mineral resources, Orogenic, Porphyry, Prospectivity mapping, Reduced intrusion-related gold, United States, Fewer tags

Data to accompany U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5077: Geochemical and mineralogical study of the Red Mountain porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit and vicinity, Santa Cruz County, Arizona

The dataset comprises analyses of core and surface samples collected in and around the Red Mountain porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The dataset includes: analyses for 13 minerals in 245 core samples (Appendix 1); analyses for 44 elements in 818 core samples (Appendix 2); analyses for 54 elements in 122 rock samples (Appendix 3); analyses for 55 elements in 119 soil samples (Appendix 4); and analyses for percent ash and 66 elements in 57 mesquite ash (Appendix 5), 68 oak ash (Appendix 6), and 68 juniper ash (Appendix 7) samples, respectively. The samples were collected and analyzed between 1980 and 2000.

Tags: Arizona, Cu, GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, All tags... MRP, Mineral Resources Program, Mo, Red Mountain, Santa Cruz, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), ash, chemical analysis, copper, drilling and coring, environmental assessment, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, juniper, mesquite, mineral deposits, mineralogy, molybdenum, oak, porphyry, rocks and deposits, soil chemistry, Fewer tags

Data release for the geologic map of the upper Arkansas River valley region, north-central Colorado

This 1:50,000-scale geologic map represents a compilation of the most recent geologic studies of the upper Arkansas River valley, between Leadville and Salida, Colorado. The valley is structurally controlled by an extensional fault system that forms part of the prominent northern Rio Grande rift, an intra-continental region of crustal extension. This work also incorporates new detailed geologic mapping of poorly understood areas within the map area and reinterprets previously studied areas, aided by lidar data that covers 59 percent of the map area. The mapped region extends into the Proterozoic metamorphic and intrusive rocks in the Sawatch Range west of the valley and the Mosquito Range to the east. Paleozoic...

Categories: Data; Tags: 207Pb/206Pb zircon age, 40Ar/39Ar age, Arkansas River, Balltown, Balltown placer gold mining areas, All tags... Belle of Granite Mine, Big Union Creek, Bishop ash, Black Cloud Mine, Black Mountain, Browns Canyon, Browns Canyon fluorspar mining district, Browns Creek, Buckskin Gulch, Buena Vista, Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Peaks, Bull Lake glaciation, Cache Creek, California Gulch, California Mine, Centerville, Chaffee County, Chalk Creek, Clear Creek, Clear Creek Reservoir, Colorado, Cottonwood Creek, Dry Union Gulch, Eagle County, Eagle River, East Fork Arkansas River, Eddy Creek, Elephant Rock, Fremont County, Front Range, Garfield, Garfield Mine, Garfield mining district, Gordon Mine, Granite, Granite mining district, Granite placer gold mining areas, Hayden Gulch, Homestake Reservoir, Iowa Gulch, Johnson Village, Lake County, Lake Creek, Langhoff Gulch, Lava Creek B ash, Leadville, Leadville mining district, Lilly Mine, London Mine, Malta, Maysville, Mesozoic rocks, Morrison Creek, Mosquito Range, Mount Aetna, Mount Antero, Mount Antero mining district, Mount Princeton, Mount Shavano, Mount Yale, Paleozoic rocks, Park County, Pine Creek, Pinedale glaciation, Pitkin County, Poncha Springs, Proterozoic rocks, Quaternary deposits, Rio Grande rift, Riverside, Rock Creek, Ruby Mine, Ruby Mountain, San Juan Mountains, Sangre de Cristo Range, Sawatch Range, Sedalia Mine, Sedalia copper-zinc mining district, South Arkansas River, South Park, South Platte River, Squaw Creek, St. Kevin mining district, Structural Geology, Sugar Loaf mining district, Sugarloaf Mountain, Tennessee Creek, Tertiary rocks, Triad Ridge, Trout Creek, Trout Creek Pass, Trout Creek paleovalley, Tumble Creek, Turquoise Lake, Twin Lakes Reservoir, Twin Lakes mining district, Two Bits mining district, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Western Alma mining district, Weston Pass, Weston Pass mining district, Yankee Blade Mine, alluvial deposits, alluvium, andesite, artificial-fill deposits, augen gneiss, basalt, basin-fill deposits, breccia, colluvium, copper, cosmogenic surface-exposure age, dacite, debris flow, debris-flow deposits, diamicton, diorite, eolian deposits, fan deposits, fault, faulting, fluorspar, fluvial deposits, gabbro, glacial deposits, glacial flood deposits, glacial flood gravel, glaciofluvial deposits, gneiss, gold, graben, granite, granitic gneiss, granodiorite, gravel, hydrologic hazards, hypabyssal rhyolite, intrusive rock, lahar deposit, lamprophyre, landslide deposits, latite, lava, lead, leucogranite, leucogranite gneiss, lidar imagery, man-made deposits, mass-movement deposits, mass-movement hazards, metabasalt, metagabbro, metaigneous rocks, metasedimentary rocks, metavolcanic rocks, microtonalite, mine, mine-waste deposits, mineral deposits, mining district, monzodiorite, monzogranite, monzonite, mud-flow deposits, neotectonics, ore, outwash, outwash gravel, peat deposits, pegmatite, periglacial, placer gold, placer-tailings deposits, porphyry, pre-Bull Lake glaciation, quartz diorite, quartz latite, quartzite, rhyodacite, rhyolite, rift, rock-glacier deposits, sackungen, sand and gravel resources, scarp, schist, sedimentary rocks, seismic hazards, silver, smelter-slag deposits, soil, surficial deposits, talus deposits, till, tuff, volcanic ash, volcanic breccia, volcanic rock, weathering, wetland deposits, zinc, Fewer tags

Tellurium Deposits in the United States

This data release provides the description of U.S. sites that include mineral regions, mines and mineral occurrences (deposits) that have a contained resource and (or) production of tellurium metal greater than 1 metric ton. For this data release, only one deposit in the U.S. with historic production records was found: Butte, Montana. We did not locate any deposits in the U.S. that list Te resources. Production facilities, such as the ASARCO LLC’s copper refinery in Amarillo, Texas are not included within this database. Tellurium is necessary for strategic, consumer, and commercial applications. The primary use for tellurium is for Cd-Te film solar cells. Other uses are as an alloying additive to steel to improve...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Department of the Interior (DOI), Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center (GGGSC), Mineral Resources Program (MRP), Montana, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, copper, critical mineral, data release, deposit, deposit type, economic geology, economy, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, lead, location, manganese, metallic mineral resources, mine feature, mine sites, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral region, mineral resources, mining district, molybdenum, natural resource exploration, nickel, open pit mine, porphyry, rhenium, selenium, silver, sulfur, sulfuric acid, tellurium, zinc, Fewer tags