Data

Radiometric data (gamma ray spectrometry) were collected via a small uncrewed airborne system (sUAS) in June 2024 to characterize four distinct mine waste features in Southwestern New Mexico. Walking surveys with a handheld meter were also conducted over parts of the survey areas to provide ground truth checks for the airborne data. Survey sites and their respective areas covered include...

This data release presents whole rock geochemical data and powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) mineralogic data from a suite of mafic and ultramafic geologic units in the United States. One-hundred-twelve samples were analyzed from core and outcrop settings at thirty sites, including from the contiguous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. Sample localities include some of the large mafic and...

This data release provides digital flight line data for a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over the southern alkaline igneous belt in south-central New Mexico. The airborne survey was funded by the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI). The survey was designed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with the New Mexico Bureau of...

This data release provides digital flight line data for a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over the Adirondack Lowlands in Northwest New York. The airborne survey was funded by the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI). The survey was designed by the USGS in collaboration with the New York State Geological Survey, and contracted by the USGS. The survey...

Ar/Ar data are for 1 sample that constrains the cooling age of biotite. The geochronology provides time constraints for the age of gold mineralization in the Tuvatu Gold Mine in Fiji. Samples were provided by Thomas Monecke (Colorado School of Mines). Samples were analyzed in January 2024.

This data release presents U-Pb LA-ICP-MS ages for eight volcanic and plutonic rocks located in the Wallace and Sandpoint 1° x 2° quadrangle region of in northern Idaho and northwestern Montana. The samples were collected by Jeffery L. Mauk and Micah A. Hernandez in 2021 and were analyzed via LA-ICP-MS in 2023 in the Denver Radioisotope Lab. The weighted mean age from all concordant...

Experiments were conducted in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Aqueous Trace Element Analysis Laboratory (ATEAL) in Denver, CO to support development and validation of a method for preparing biological materials for silicon analysis by solution phase inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The objective was to stabilize volatile silicon species resulting from a digestion...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects magnetic susceptibility measurements on in-situ and laboratory rock samples to help identify the sources of anomalies in aeromagnetic surveys in Alaska. Magnetic susceptibility is a measure of how much a material will become magnetized in an applied magnetic field and is the ratio of magnetization, M (magnetic moment per unit volume), to the...

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release contains data from stream water and groundwater samples collected in July through October 2024 at the Perigo Mine site in Gilpin County, northern Colorado. Data were collected as part of a study aimed at characterizing the local groundwater flow system in the hillslope hosting the mine’s draining crosscut tunnel, and identifying sources of...

This data release provides digital flight line data for a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over the Laramie Mountains region of Wyoming. The airborne survey was funded by the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI). The survey was designed by the USGS in collaboration with the Wyoming State Geological Survey and contracted by the USGS. The survey was...

Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) and magnetic survey data were collected during November 4–20, 2024 over a distance of 3,251 line kilometers in the western Mojave Desert, California. These data were collected in support of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), which aims to improve knowledge of the geologic framework of the United States through...

This data release contains digital radiometric flight line data for a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over an area of northwest Arkansas (version 2.0, May 2026). Data and documentation for the original version, including associated airborne magnetic data, can be found at https://doi.org/10.5066/P91O2Y8W. The airborne geophysical survey was jointly funded by the...