Whole rock major, minor, and trace element geochemistry of the upper part of the Mount Emmons-Redwell porphyry molybdenum (Climax-type) deposit, Redwell Basin, Crested Butte, Colorado

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release provides whole rock major, minor, and trace element geochemical data from the fluorine-rich Mount Emmons-Redwell porphyry molybdenum (Climax-type) deposit (Mt. Emmons-Redwell deposit), located approximately 5.6 km (3.5 mi) northwest of Crested Butte, Colorado. The Mt. Emmons-Redwell deposit partly underlies Redwell Basin on the northwest flank of Mount Emmons in the west-central region of the Colorado Mineral Belt. Mineralization of the Mt. Emmons-Redwell deposit occurs at depth as vein, veinlet, stockwork, and fracture-hosted Climax-type mineralization [308 Mt at 0.32% Mo (Galey, 1978; Guarnera and Anderson, 2007)], and is associated with the Mt. Emmons igneous complex....

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: <1GB, Climax-type deposit, Colorado, Colorado Mineral Belt, Crested Butte, All tags... Elk Mountains, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center (GGGSC), Gunnison County, Mineral Resources Program (MRP), Mount Emmons, Mt. Emmons-Redwell deposit, Oh-be-joyful Creek, Redwell Basin, Redwell Creek, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, aluminum, analytical chemistry, antimony, arsenic, atomic emission spectroscopy (AES), barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, cadmium, calcium, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, economic geology, erbium, europium, exploration geochemistry, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, hafnium, holmium, igneous rocks, indium, inductively coupled plasma-optical emission-mass spectroscopy (ICP-OES-MS), iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mass spectroscopy, mineral deposits, mineral resources, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, phosphorus, plutonic rocks, porphyry deposit, potassium, promethium, rock chemistry, rubidium, samarium, scandium, sedimentary rocks, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (WDXRF), x-ray fluorescence, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Geochemical Data: Western Slope of the Oquirrh Mountains, Tooele County, Utah

From June to September 2017, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) collected a total of 116 surficial sediment and bedrock samples from abandoned mine wastepiles, ephemeral channels below wastepiles, nearby outcrops, and background areas representative of the undisturbed lithology on the western slope of the northern half of the Oquirrh Mountain Range, approximately 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. The sample locations can be spatially clustered into four groups: the Bates Canyon group in the foothills below Bates Canyon; the Middle Canyon group in Middle Canyon; the Ridgeline group within the Bingham Mining District located at or near the Tooele-Salt Lake County border on the Oquirrh Mountain ridge;...

Categories: Data; Tags: Bates Canyon, Bingham Mining District, Economic Geology, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, All tags... Geography, Geomorphology, Hydrology, ICP-MS, ICP-OES, Land Use Change, Middle Canyon, Mineral Resources, Oquirrh Mountains, Rush Valley Mining District, Sedimentology, Soil Sciences, Stockton Mining District, Tooele County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, abandoned mines and quarries, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, cadmium, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chromium, cobalt, contaminant transport, contamination and pollution, environmental health (human), field sampling, gallium, geochemistry, hafnium, hazards, human environmental safety, human impacts, indium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mine drainage, mine waste, mining hazards, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, phosphorous, potassium, remediation, rubidium, scandium, sediment geochemistry, selenium, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, tin, tungsten, unconsolidated deposits, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Analyses of historic U.S. Bureau of Mines rock and heavy mineral concentrate samples for geochemical trace-element and rare-earth element data--Ray Mountains and Kanuti-Hodzana uplands area, Alaska

Re-analyses of sample pulps and bulk rejects from historic USBM rock and heavy-mineral-concentrate samples were conducted by the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) as part of the State of Alaska's Strategic and Critical Minerals Assessment project, which is designed to evaluate Alaska's potential for these resources. The objective of this resource assessment is to expand the state's geochemical database by obtaining and publishing modern, quantitative geochemical analyses for historic USBM samples, where available. Highlights of this re-analysis project include heavy mineral concentrates with up 7,220 ppm Sn, 5,870 ppm Cr, and 17,000 ppm Mn.

Tags: Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Basalt, All tags... Base Metals, Beaver Quadrangle, Bedrock, Beryllium, Bettles Quadrangle, Bismuth, Bonanza Creek, Cadmium, Calcium, Caribou Mountain, Cerium, Cesium, Chlorite, Chromium, Coal Creek, Cobalt, Copper, Critical Minerals, Dall River, Dalton Highway, Dysprosium, Economic Geology, Erbium, Europium, Exploration, Felsic, Fish Creek, Fluorine, Fort Hamlin Hills, Gadolinium, Galena, Gallium, Geochemical Data, Geochemical Surveys, Geochemistry, Germanium, Gobblers Knob, Gold, Granite, Greisen, Hafnium, Heavy Metals, Holmium, Igneous Rocks, Iron, Ishtalitna Creek, Kanuti Hot Springs, Kanuti Kilolitna River, Kanuti River, Kilo Hot Springs, Koyukuk Mining District, Lanthanide Elements, Lanthanum, Livengood Quadrangle, Lode, Lower Ray Hot Springs, Lutetium, Magnesium, Manganese, McQuesten Creek, Metabasite, Metals, Metamorphic Rocks, Metasedimentary rocks, Metavolcanic rocks, Mineral Assessment, Mineral Deposit, Mineral Resources, 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, Rubidium, Samarium, Scheelite, Schist, Selenium, Silica, Silver, Sithylemenkat Lake, Sodium, 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, Ytterbium, Zeunerite, Zinc, Zirconium, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

GIS, supplemental data table, and references for focus areas of potential domestic resources of critical minerals and related commodities in the United States and Puerto Rico

In response to Executive Order 13817 of December 20, 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) coordinated with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to identify 36 nonfuel minerals or mineral materials considered critical to the economic and national security of the United States (U.S.) (https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2018/1021/ofr20181021.pdf). Acquiring information on possible domestic sources of these critical minerals is the rationale for the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI). The program, which partners the USGS with State Geological Surveys, Federal agencies, and the private sector, aims to collect new geological, geophysical, and topographic (lidar) data in key areas of the U.S. to stimulate mineral...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, All tags... Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mineral Resources, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, cesium, chromium, cobalt, critical minerals, economic geology, fluorspar, gallium, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, germanium, graphite, hafnium, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mineral deposits, nickel, niobium, platinum group elements (PGE), potash, rare earth elements (REE), rhenium, rubidium, scandium, strontium, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of the People's Republic of China

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for the People's Republic of China. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical infrastructure integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study as well as the movement of mineral products across domestic and global markets. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains by updating and publishing the georeferenced locations of mineral commodity production and processing facilities, mineral...

Tags: Asia, China, Economic Geology, Energy Resources, Fujian Province, All tags... GIS, Geography, Guangdong Province, Guanxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hainan Province, Hebei Province, Hunan Province, Information Sciences, Jiangsu Province, LNG, Mineral Resources, NGL, PGE, REE, Shandong Province, South China Sea, Tianjin Municipality, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Zhejiang Province, aluminum, amethyst, antimony, antimony occurrence, antimony resources, aquamarine, aragonite, arsenic, asbestos, barite, barium, bauxite, beforsite, bentonite, beryl beryllium, bismuth, boron, brine, brown coal, bulk cargo, bulk shipping, cadmium, calcium, celestite, cement, cesium, chromium,, clay, coal, coal (brown), coal (hard), coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, coalfield, cobalt, columbium, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, dam, deposit, diamond, electrical transmission lines, electricity, electricity generation, emerald, energy, energy generation, epidote, evaporite-related potash, exploration, extra high voltage, ferroalloys, floating storage, fluorite, fluorspar, fluxstone, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gas terminal, gemstone, gemstones, geography, gold, graphite, gypsum, hafnium, halite, halite (brine), hard coal, hydrocarbon resources, iron, iron (carbonatite), iron and steel, iron ore, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, lead, limestone, liquefied natural gas (LNG), lithium, magnesite, magnesium, manganese, marble, maritime port, mercury, methanol, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral deposit, mineral exploration, mineral exports, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, morganite, muscovite, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGL), nickel, niobium, niobium (columbium), non-renewable energy, ochre, oil, oil and gas, oil and gas terminal, oil production, oil terminal, onshore, peat, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate occurrence, phosphate resources, phosphorite, phosphorus, platinum-group elements, porphyry copper, port, port terminal, potash, potash occurrence, potash resources, potassium, power, power generation, power lines, power plant, power station, power transmission, quartz, rare earth elements, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, regasification, regasification unit (FSRU), renewable energy, resources, rhenium, rose quartz, rubidium, ruby, salt, sand, sand (glass), sand and gravel, sandstone, sapphire, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, serpentine, shale gas, shale oil, shipping port, silica, silver, smelting, sodium, sphalerite, spinel, strontium, sulfur, sövite, talc, tantalum, technetium, tellurium, terminal, thorium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tourmaline, transmission lines, tungsten, ultra high voltage, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, vermiculite, water storage, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Geochemical data used in the tungsten skarn mineral resource assessment of the Great Basin region of western Nevada and eastern California

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has undertaken a mineral resources assessment for tungsten for a portion of the Great Basin in parts of western Nevada and east-central California. This data release provides the Great Basin Tungsten Database: the geospatial and geologic data, and results of chemical analyses for 46,955 samples collected in the assessment area, extracted from the USGS National Geochemical Database. These rock records were collected as part of various programs and projects at the USGS and analyzed from 1963 to 2015. The database represents rock records, each comprising one best value chemical determination for each analyzed chemical species, that include skarns, carbonate lithologies (for example,...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Great Basin, MRP, All tags... Mineral Resource Assessment Training Program, Mineral Resources Program, NGDB, National Geochemical Database, Nevada, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, aluminum, analytical chemistry, antimony, arsenic, 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, holmium, indium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, metallic mineral resources, mineral deposits, mineral resources, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, rhenium, rhodium, rock geochemistry, rocks and deposits, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Select Countries in Southwest Asia

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for 10 countries of interest in Southwest Asia (area of study): Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, and Thailand. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical infrastructure integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study as well as the movement of mineral products across domestic and global markets. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains...

Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Cambodia, Economic Geology, Energy Resources, All tags... Geography, India, Indonesia, Information Sciences, Iran, LNG, LNG terminals, Laos, Malaysia–Thailand JDA, Mineral Resources, NGL, Nepal, North Korea, PGE, Pakistan, REE, Thailand, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aluminum, amethyst, antimony, aquamarine, aragonite, arsenic, asbestos, barite, barium, bauxite, beforsite, bentonite, beryl, beryllium, bismuth, boron, brine, brown coal, bulk cargo, bulk shipping, cadmium, calcium, celestite, cement, cesium, chromium, clay, coal, coal (brown), coal (hard), coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, cobalt, columbium, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, critical minerals, deposit, diamond, dry port, electrical transmission lines, electricity, electricity generation, emerald, energy, energy generation, epidote, evaporite-related potash, exploration, ferroalloys, fluorite, fluorspar, fluxstone, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gas terminal, gasification, gemstone, gemstones, gold, graphite, gypsum, hafnium, halite, halite (brine), hard coal, hydrocarbon resources, iron, iron (carbonatite), iron and steel, iron ore, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, lead, limestone, liquefaction, liquefied natural gas, lithium, magnesite, magnesium, manganese, marble, maritime port, mercury, methanol, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral deposit, mineral exploration, mineral exports, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, morganite, muscovite, natural gas, natural gas liquids, nickel, niobium, niobium (columbium), non-renewable energy, ochre, oil, oil and gas, oil and gas terminal, oil production, oil terminal, peat, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate occurrence, phosphate resources, phosphorite, platinum-group elements, porphyry copper, port, port terminal, potash, potash occurrence, potash resources, potassium, power, power generation, power lines, power plant, power station, quartz, rare earth elements, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, regasification, renewable energy, resources, rhenium, rose quartz, rubidium, ruby, salt, sand, sand (glass), sand and gravel, sandstone, sapphire, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, serpentine, shale gas, shale oil, shipping port, silica, silver, smelting, sodium, sphalerite, spinel, stratabound copper, strontium, sulfur, sövite, talc, tantalum, technetium, tellurium, thorium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tourmaline, transmission lines, tungsten, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, vermiculite, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Active Mines and Mineral Processing Plants in the United States in 2003

This data set includes mineral and metal operations in the United States. The data represent commodities monitored by the National Minerals Information Center of the USGS, and the operations included are those considered active in 2003 and surveyed by the MIT. Additional mineral and metal operations information can be obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center web page at: <http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/>

Tags: aluminum, asbestos, ball clay, barite, bentonite, All tags... beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, cement, chromium, cobalt, columbium, copper, diatomite, dimension stone, feldspar, fullers earth, garnet, gemstones, gold, gypsum, industrial sand and gravel, iron ore, iron oxide, kaolin, kyanite, lead, lime, lithium, magnesite, magnesium compounds, manganese, mercury, metal operations, metals, mica, mineral operations, minerals, mines, mining operations, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, niobium (columbium), olivine, peat, perlite, phosphate rock, platinum-group metals, potash, pumice, rare-earth metals, rhenium, rubidium, salt, selenium, silica, silicon, silver, soda ash (trona), sodium sulfate, strontium, sulfur, synthetic mullite, talc, tellurium, thorium, tin, titanium metal, titanium mineral, titanium pigment, trona (soda ash), tungsten, vanadium, vermiculite, wollastonite, zeolites, zinc, zircon, Fewer tags

Multi-element geochemical analyses of selected samples from the Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation and Copper Harbor Conglomerate at the Copperwood copper deposit, Western Syncline, Michigan, USA

This data release provides multi-element data for drill core samples from the Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation and Copper Harbor Conglomerate at the Copperwood copper deposit, Michigan, USA. Copper was determined by assay, and sulfur by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) after aqua regia digestion for most samples. Multi-element whole rock analyses were determined for selected samples. The Copperwood copper deposit is a sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit in the Presque Isle Syncline of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The deposit has a 2018 mineral resource estimate of 42.2 million metric tons (Mt) of measured plus indicated mineral resources in the Lower Copper Bearing Sequence...

Categories: Data; Tags: Copper Harbor Conglomerate, Copperwood copper deposit, Michigan, NGDB, National Geochemical Database, All tags... Nonesuch Formation, Sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Peninsula, Western Syncline, aluminum, analytical chemistry, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, cadmium, calcium, carbon, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chromium, cobalt, copper, critical minerals, dysprosium, economic geology, erbium, europium, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, hafnium, holmium, indium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, metallic mineral resources, mineral deposits, mineral resources, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, none, nonmetallic mineral resources, phosphorus, potassium, praseodymium, rock geochemistry, rocks and deposits, rubidium, samarium, scandium, silver, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, 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

Chert geochemistry discriminant analysis and K-meas cluster analysis: Rampart Project area, Tanana B-1 Quadrangle, east-central Alaska

A pilot study using discriminant analysis on major oxide and minor element data from 67 chert samples in the Rampart area, southeastern Tanana and southwest Livengood Quadrangles, western Yukon-Tanana Upland, Alaska, generally indicates a unique geochemical signature for the cherts of a given unit.Chert samples from five known type locales were used as standards of comparison: 1)Livengood Dome Chert (Ordovician), 2)Amy Creek unit (Proterozoic to early Paleozoic), 3)Rampart Group (Mississippian to Triassic), 4)Troublesome Creek unit (Devonian), and 5)Permian-Triassic clastic unit (associated with the Triassic-dated gabbro). Samples from the above units were compared to chert from Tanana B-1 area-units of unknown...

Tags: Barium, Bedrock Geologic Map, Chemistry, Chert, Geochemical Data, All tags... Geochemical Surveys, Geochemistry, Livengood Quadrangle, Major Oxides, Metasedimentary rocks, Methods, Phosphorus, Potassium, Rampart Mining District, Rampart-Manley Mining District, Rare Earth Elements, Rubidium, Silica, Strontium, Tanana Quadrangle, Titanium, Trace Elements, Vanadium, Yttrium, Zirconium, Fewer tags

National Minerals Information Center

The mission of the USGS National Minerals Information Center (formerly the Minerals Information Team) is to collect, analyze, and disseminate information on the domestic and international supply of and demand for minerals and mineral materials essential to the U.S. economy and national security. About 90 mineral commodities are covered.The Center's goal is to provide decision makers with the information required to ensure that the Nation has an adequate and dependable supply of minerals and materials to meet its defense and economic needs at acceptable costs related to environment, energy, and economics. In addition to special data releases available through ScienceBase, annual and monthly or quarterly statistical...

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Alaska Geochemical Database Version 3.0 (AGDB3) including best value data compilations for rock, sediment, soil, mineral, and concentrate sample media

The Alaska Geochemical Database Version 3.0 (AGDB3) contains new geochemical data compilations in which each geologic material sample has one best value determination for each analyzed species, greatly improving speed and efficiency of use. Like the Alaska Geochemical Database Version 2.0 before it, the AGDB3 was created and designed to compile and integrate geochemical data from Alaska to facilitate geologic mapping, petrologic studies, mineral resource assessments, definition of geochemical baseline values and statistics, element concentrations and associations, environmental impact assessments, and studies in public health associated with geology. This relational database, created from databases and published...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: AGDB, AMRAP, Alaska Geochemical Database, Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program, Alaska Range, All tags... Aleutian Range, Alexander Archipelago, Brooks Range, Chugach Mountains, Geochemistry, Heavy Mineral Program, Kuskokwim Mountains, Mineralogy, Praseodymium, Seward Peninsula, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wrangell Mountains, aluminum, analytical chemistry, antimony, arsenic, ash, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bound or essential water, bromine, bulk density, cadmium, calcium, calcium carbonate, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbonate carbon, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, environmental geochemistry, erbium, europium, exploration geochemistry, f02013=Eastern Aleutian Islands, f02016=Western Aleutian Islands, fOC4101=Gulf of Alaska, fOC4102=Bering Sea, fUS02=Alaska, fUS=United States, ferric iron, ferrous iron, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, heavy-mineral concentrate chemistry, holmium, hydrogen, indium, iodine, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, loss on ignition, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mineral resources, mineralogical data, mineralogy, moisture or nonessential water, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, nitrate, nitrogen, organic carbon, osmium, pH, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, potassium, powder density, pyritic sulfur, rhenium, rhodium, rock chemistry, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, sediment chemistry, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, soil chemistry, strontium, sulfate, sulfide, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, total water, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, 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