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Airborne Magnetic and Radiometric Survey, Colorado Mineral Belt, Mid Block, 2023

This data release provides digital flight-line and gridded data for a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over the central portion of the Colorado Mineral Belt, central Colorado. The Colorado Mineral Belt is a broad, northeast-southwest trending alignment of historic mining districts that have produced multiple types of commodities, including critical minerals that...

Geospatial database for the spectral characteristics and mapping of lithium-rich playas in the Western U.S. Basin and Range

The data included here were used to evaluate the prospectivity for lithium in brines of playas of the western part of the Basin and Range Physiographic Province of the United States. Prospectivity is derived from the mappable criteria used in the descriptive deposit model published by Bradley and others (2013) and focused mainly from the remote sensing point of view. The playas in the...

Geochemical, petrophysical, and drill hole database for Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks and iron ore deposits of the St. Francois Mountains, southeast Missouri

Geochemical, petrophysical, and depth to the Paleozoic-Precambrian basement interface from drill hole data for Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks and iron ore deposits of the St. Francois Mountains, southeast Missouri (MMDB) are provided in this data release. The samples were collected as part of various agency programs and projects from 1967 through 2019. Most samples were collected by...

Stable oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur, and carbon isotope analyses of mineral deposits and mineral occurrences in southeast Missouri, Alaska, Arizona, Indonesia, Brazil, and China

Stable isotope analyses are reported (the ratios deuterium/hydrogen, carbon-13/carbon-12, oxygen-18/oxygen-16, and sulfur-34/sulfur-32) for ores and related rocks from the Pea Ridge, Lower Pilot Knob, Bourbon, Iron Mountain, and Kratz Spring iron oxide-apatite deposits in southeast Missouri; the Boss iron oxide-copper-gold deposit in southeast Missouri; the Gagaryah stratiform barite...

X-ray diffraction data and estimates of mineral abundances based on Rietveld refinement for mine wastes collected through the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative

Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) data and estimates of mineral abundances determined using Rietveld refinement included in this data release were generated as part of the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI; https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/earth-mri). Earth MRI is a partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and state geological surveys and was developed by the...

Principal facts of regional gravity data in the central Upper Peninsula, Michigan, 2022-2023

Gravity data were collected in 2022 and 2023 to assist in mapping surface and subsurface geology in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This data release provides principal facts for 666 new gravity stations that were acquired to supplement existing public gravity data coverage.

Density and magnetic susceptibility measurements on Precambrian rocks in the central Upper Peninsula, Michigan, 2021-2022

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected rock physical property measurements to help understand causative sources of gravity and magnetic survey anomalies in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A total of 1,460 measurements of magnetic susceptibility and density from 61 outcrops and 37 boreholes have been conducted on Precambrian rocks. The measurements aid in interpretation of...

SHRIMP-RG U-Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry, and whole-rock geochemistry and radioisotope data of select samples from southern California and Arizona, and northern Mexico

This dataset accompanies proposed publication, "Tectonic disruption of the Proterozoic Yavapai-Matzatzal Province boundary near Sierra Hornaday, northwest Sonora", to be published in a Geological Society of America publication, which will report zircon SHRIMP-RG U-Pb ages and Sm-Nd whole rock isotope analyses to map the path of the Yavapai-Matzatzal province boundary across southwest...

Þingmúli Volcanic Complex, eastern Iceland: Pb, Sr, and Nd isotopic data, 2024

This dataset consists of seven lava samples that were analyzed for Pb, Sr, and Nd isotopes. The dataset accompanies the planned publication, ‘The geochemical and petrogenetic evolution of Þingmúli central volcano: Insights to magma processes in Iceland’, as well as planned future publications on this volcanic complex. Pb, Sr, and Nd isotope data were used for this study to determine...

U-Pb zircon geochronology and whole rock geochemistry data for Auminzatau and Kuldjuktau mountains, Kyzylkum desert, Uzbekistan

These U-Pb zircon geochronology and whole rock geochemistry data were collected as part of a bilateral campaign of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) with the Uzbekistan Ministry of Mining, Industry, and Geology (MinGeology; formerly GOSCOMGeology) to support a new quantitative/qualitative mineral resource assessment for tungsten, gold, rare-earth elements, graphite, and uranium in the...
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