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

Digital Data from Mineral Investigation of Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Saguache Counties, Colorado, USA

This Data Release provides tabular and geospatial data digitized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from a U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBoM) report titled Mineral Investigation of Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Saguache Counties, Colorado. The original preliminary paper report, numbered Mineral Land Assessment 65-83 (MLA 65-83; Ellis and others, 1983), presented the results of a mineral resource potential survey of areas in and around the Sangre de Cristo Range flanking the northeastern extent of San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado. Included in this Data Release are georeferenced scans of the regional plate maps, digitized sample site locations, analytical...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alamosa County, Alamosa County, Baca National Wildlife Refuge, Blanca Peak, Cañon City, All tags... Colorado, Colorado, Costilla County, Costilla County, Crestone, Crestone Needle, Crestone Peak, Custer County, Custer County, Duncan, Economic Geology, Fremont County, Fremont County, GGGSC, GIS and Information Management Project, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geomorphology, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Great Sand Dunes National Preserve, Gunnison National Forest, Hayden Pass, Hermit Pass, Huerfano Conty, Huerfano County, Huerfano County, Humboldt Peak, Kit Carson Mountain, La Veta Pass, Liberty, MLA 65-83, MRP, Medano Pass, Mineral Land Assessment, Mineral Land Assessment 65-83, Mineral Resources, Mineral Resources Program, Mining claim, Mosca Pass, Music Pass, Poncha Pass, Prospecting, Rio Grande National Forest, Rio Grande Rift, Rita Alta copper mine, Saguache County, Saguache County, Salida, San Isabel National Forest, San Luis Valley, San Luis Valley, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Sangre de Cristo Range, Sangre de Cristo Range, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, Silver Cliff, Structural geology, U.S. Bureau of Mines, U.S. Bureau of Mines, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, USBoM, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Westcliffe, Wet Mountain Valley, Wilderness, Wilderness Study Area, abandoned mines and quarries, atomic absorption analysis, chemical analysis, colorimetry, copper, fire assay, fluorimetry, geologic maps, geologic structure, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, lead, mass spectroscopy, mine adit, mine dump, mine shaft, mine stockpile, mineral resources, mineralized outcrop, mineralogy, molybdenum, ore formation, petrology, prospect pit, quarry, sample sites, silver, tectonic processes, tungsten, uranium, 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

Legacy Geochemical Data from Hardcopy Records of Selected Past U.S. Geological Survey Projects

This data release contains geochemical data from selected U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) projects from the 1960s-1980s that were previously unpublished as digital data. The objective of those projects was to describe the geology, determine petrologic and geochemical characteristics, or to evaluate the mineral resource potential of Federal Lands and adjacent study areas. These data comprise geochemical analyses from 36,498 samples--27,223 rock samples, 4,091 sediment samples, 2,351 soil samples, 330 heavy-mineral pan concentrate samples, 297 organic material samples, 58 mineral samples, 27 water samples, 11 miscellaneous samples, and 2,110 unspecified media samples. More than 78 percent of these samples were analyzed...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: "Geochemistry", "Mineral Resources"], Alaska, California, Colorado, All tags... GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Idaho, MRP, Mineral Resources Program, Missouri, Montana, NGDB, National Geochemical Database, Nevada, New Mexico, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, ["Economic Geology", alkali metal elements, alkaline earth elements, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, atomic absorption analysis, atomic emission spectroscopy, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, calcium, cerium, chemical analysis, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, economic geology, erbium, europium, exploration geochemistry, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, halogen elements, holmium, igneous rocks, indium, iodine, iridium, iron, lanthanide series elements, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, metal elements, metamorphic rocks, mineral deposits, mineral resources, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, nonmetal elements, palladium, pan concentrate, phosphorus, platinum, platinum-group elements, plutonic rocks, potassium, praseodymium, rare earth elements, rhenium, rhodium, rock geochemistry, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, sediment geochemistry, sedimentary rocks, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, stream sediment, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, unconsolidated deposits, uranium, vanadium, volcanic rocks, x-ray fluorescence, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Geochemical characterization of solid media from three watersheds that transect the basal contact of the Duluth Complex, northeastern Minnesota

To document regional water quality in areas of potential base-metal mining, bedrock, soil, streambed sediment, and surface-water samples were collected and analyzed in three watersheds that cross the basal part of the Duluth Complex (northeastern Minnesota). The three watershed each had different mineral-deposit settings: (1) copper-nickel-platinum group element mineralization (Filson Creek), (2) iron-titanium-oxide mineralization (St. Louis River), and (3) no identified mineralization (Keeley Creek). At least 10 bedrock, 30 soil (two from 15 sites), and up to 13 streambed sediment samples were collected in each watershed and analyzed for 44 major and trace elements by a combined method using a combined inductively...

Categories: Data; Tags: Cook County, Duluth Complex, Filson Creek, Geochemistry, Keeley Creek, All tags... Lake County, Mineral Resources, Minnesota, South Filson deposit, South Kawishiwi intrusion, Spruce Road deposit, St. Louis River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), anorthosite, atomic absorption analysis, atomic emission spectroscopy, copper, copper-nickel-PGE deposit, environmental chemistry, gabbro, graywacke, mass spectroscopy, mineral deposits, nickel, oxide ultramafic intrusion, soil chemistry, troctolite, Fewer tags

Hg Concentrations of Fish Tissue Samples in the Vicinity of Yellow Pine, Idaho

The USGS examined mercury (Hg) concentrations in fish populations inhabiting impacted and reference streams as part of an investigation into the transport of trace metals in a watershed impacted by legacy mercury mining downstream from the Cinnabar mine site, Valley County, ID. Fish were sampled through an electrofishing survey utilizing a two-pass quantitative depletion approach where possible. Five reaches were selected in the Sugar Creek/Cinnabar Creek watershed, including two background reaches (ID020; ID021) with negligible mining impacts, Cinnabar Creek above the confluence with Sugar Creek (ID019), and two sites on Sugar Creek below the confluence with Cinnabar Creek (ID018 and ID010). Juvenile Bull trout...

Categories: Data; Tags: Abandoned Mines and Quarries, Aquatic Biology, Aquatic Biology, Atomic Absorption Analysis, Bull Trout, All tags... Cane Creek, Chinook Salmon, Cinnabar Creek, East Fork South Fork Salmon River, Ecology, Environmental Health, Freshwater Ecosystems, GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Idaho, MRP, Mercury, Mercury, Mine Drainage, Mineral Resources Program, Mining Water Use, Nonpoint-source Pollution, Population Dynamics, Salmon River, Sculpin, Stibnite, Sugar Creek, Toxic metals, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Valley County, Water Chemistry, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water Resources, Water Sampling, Wildlife Biology, Yellow Pine, Fewer tags

National Geochemical Database on Ore Deposits: Legacy data

There is a growing demand for commodities (elements, compounds, minerals) used in today's advanced technologies. Critical minerals are usually found in ore deposits that are deemed vital to economic and national security. The National Geochemical Database on Ore Deposits: Legacy data (NGDOD) contains chemistry and geologic information for nearly 30,000 historic ore and ore-related rock samples from mineral deposits and mining districts in the United States. Geochemical data sets from various mineral deposits were submitted by geologists of the "Systems Approach to Critical Minerals Inventory, Research, and Assessment" (SACM) within the U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Resource Program (MRP). The data sets represent...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Economic Geology, All tags... Geochemistry, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Mineral Resources, Missouri, Montana, NGDB, National Geochemical Database, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, alkali metal elements, alkaline earth elements, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, atomic absorption analysis, atomic emission spectroscopy, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, calcium, carbon, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, critical minerals, dysprosium, economic geology, erbium, europium, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, halogen elements, historic ores, holmium, igneous rocks, indium, iridium, iron, lanthanide series elements, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mass spectroscopy, mercury, metal elements, metallic mineral resources, metamorphic rocks, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral resources, mineral system type, molybdenum, neodymium, neutron activation analysis, nickel, niobium, nonmetal elements, nonmetallic mineral resources, osmium, oxygen, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, platinum-group elements, plutonic rocks, potassium, praseodymium, rare earth elements, rhenium, rhodium, rock geochemistry, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, sedimentary rocks, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, volcanic rocks, x-ray fluorescence, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags