Mines, Mineral Occurrences, and Mining Districts in the Carlin Area, Nevada

Sediment hosted gold deposits in Nevada were first mined in the 1960s from open pit mines with large tonnage and low grade resources. Since that time, continuing exploration and discovery have identified extraordinary resources, and together these deposits now form the second-largest gold endowment on Earth, surpassed only by the Witwatersrand Gold Fields of South Africa. The data herein are part of a larger U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) project to develop an updated geospatial database of mines, mineral deposits and mineral regions in the United States. The point and polygon layers within this database represent locations of mines, mineral occurrences (which includes deposits and prospects), and mining...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Ag, Au, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Carlin, All tags... Cu, Elko County, Eureka County, Hg, Mo, Nevada, Pb, Santa Renia Mountains, Sb, Tuscarora Mountains, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, W, Zn, antimony, barite, copper, economic geology, geospatial datasets, gold, lead, mercury, mine, mine sites, mineral commodity, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, molybdenum, natural resource exploration, open pit mine, silver, surface workings, tungsten, turquoise, underground workings, zinc, Fewer tags

Melt inclusion and mineral geochemical analyses supporting the evaluation of petrogenesis, degassing, and metallogenic potential of mid-Cenozoic rhyolite magmas in northern Nevada, USA

This data release presents geochemical analyses of silicate melt inclusions, host quartz phenocrysts, and biotite phenocrysts in samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from mid-Cenozoic rhyolitic rocks from northern Nevada. Igneous intrusions and volcanic rocks in this study encompass nineteen rhyolitic samples from five magmatic centers across northeastern Nevada. Rhyolites were emplaced throughout northeastern Nevada over about an 8 million year timespan (41–33 mega-annum) in a variety of eruptive styles and volumes, ranging from meter-wide dikes to caldera-forming ignimbrites, and were roughly contemporaneous with regional ore deposition. Samples were prepared for petrographic and scanning electron...

Categories: Data; Tags: Bald Mountain, Beast pit, Blue Star Mine, Caetano Caldera, Carico Lake Valley, All tags... Carlin-type gold, Copper Canyon, Cortez Hills pit, EMP, Economic Geology, Electron microprobe, Elko County, Eureka, Eureka County, FTIR, Fish Creek Range, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, GGGSC, Genesis pit, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, LA-ICP-MS, Lander County, Laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, MRP, Magmas to Metals project, Maverick Springs Range, Mineral Resources, Mineral Resources Program, Mount Tenabo, Nanny Creek, Nevada, Pequop Mountains, Rocky Pass, SEM, SHRIMP-RG, Scanning electron microscope, Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe-reverse geometry, Shoshone Range, Target Hill, Toiyabe Range, Tuscarora Mountains, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Volcanology, White Pine County, chemical analysis, economy, geoscientificInformation, igneous rocks, magma plumbing system, magmatic volatiles, melt inclusions, metallogenic potential, mineral resources, ore deposits, petrography, porphyry deposit, rare earth elements, rhyolite, rocks and deposits, thermobarometry, Fewer tags