Jeffrey L Mauk

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

Global Distribution of Selected Mines, Deposits, and Districts of Critical Minerals

The point and polygon layers within this geodatabase present the global distribution of selected mineral resource features (deposits, mines, districts, mineral regions) for 22 minerals or mineral commodities considered critical to the economy and security of the United States as of 2017. These data complement the report by Schulz and others (2017) which provides national and global information on 23 critical minerals - antimony (Sb), barite (barium, Ba), beryllium (Be), cobalt (Co), fluorite or fluorspar (fluorine, F), gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge), graphite (carbon, C), hafnium (Hf), indium (In), lithium (Li), manganese (Mn), niobium (Nb), platinum-group elements (PGE), rare-earth elements (REE), rhenium (Re), selenium...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Asia, China, Korea, Republic of, USGS PP1802, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... antimony, barium, beryllium, cobalt, critical mineral resource, deposit type, economic geology, fLD10 = North America, fLD20 = Central America, fLD30 = South America, fLD40 = Europe, fLD50 = Africa, fLD60 = Australia and New Zealand, fLD80 = Asia Minor and Middle East, fLD90 = Southeast Asia, fluorine, gallium, geoenvironmental model, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, hafnium, lithium, manganese, mine sites, mineral commodity, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, mining, niobium, nonfuel mineral resources, platinum-group elements, rare-earth elements, reserves, resource, rhenium, selenium, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, vanadium, web map services, zirconium, Fewer tags

Cobalt Deposits in the United States

This data release provides descriptions of more than 60 mineral regions, mines, and mineral deposits within the United States and its territories that are reported to contain enrichments of cobalt (Co). To focus the scope of this data release, we report only mined deposits and exploration prospects with past production, or resource and reserve estimates of 1,000 metric tons or more of cobalt. Cobalt has diverse uses because of its properties, which include ferromagnetism, hardness, wear-resistance, low conductivity, and high melting point. The primary uses for cobalt are in rechargeable battery electrodes, and in superalloys used to make gas turbine engines. In 2017, the United States had a net import reliance...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alaska, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, California, GGGSC, All tags... Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Idaho, MRP, Maine, Michigan, Mineral Resources Program, Mineralogy, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, barite, cobalt, copper, critical mineral, economic geology, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, iron, lead, location, mine, mine sites, mineral commodity, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, natural resource exploration, net smelter return (NSR), nickel, open pit mine, palladium, platinum, silver, sulfur, surface workings, underground workings, zinc, Fewer tags

Data to accompany U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2020-3017: Pyrrhotite distribution in the conterminous United States

The mineral pyrrhotite, which is an unstable sulfide mineral, was present in crushed stone aggregate used in concrete foundations of homes in Connecticut and Massachusetts, many of those foundations are failing as the mineral weathers. Because of the substantial costs of lifting homes and replacing their foundations, in 2019 the U.S. Congress directed the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Mineral Resources Program to help assess the national risk of pyrrhotite in aggregate. The data presented here help form a map that shows where pyrrhotite may occur across the conterminous United States, which can help inform risk assessments. Pyrrhotite occurs in some mineral deposits, and it also forms from pyrite during metamorphism,...

Tags: GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, MRP, Mineral Resources, Mineral Resources Program, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, geographic information systems, geologic maps, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, mineral deposits, pyrrhotite, risk assessment, sulfide mineral, Fewer tags

Tungsten Deposits in the United States (ver. 2.0, August 2020)

This is version 2.0 of Tungsten Deposits in the United States. This data release provides the descriptions of approximately 100 U.S. sites that include mineral regions, mineral occurrences (deposits), and mine features that contain enrichments of tungsten (W). This data release reports on U.S. mines and deposits with greater than or equal to 215 metric tons of tungsten metal (30,000 short ton units of tungsten trioxide). Sites in this database occur in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Utah and Washington. As a part of the process set forth by Executive Order 13817, the USGS National Minerals Information Center (NMIC) identified W as a critical mineral...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Adit, Alaska, Alluvial placer Sn, Arc-related porphyry Mo, Area, All tags... Arizona, Au-W breccia, Brine, Brine Mine, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), California, Climax Mo deposits, Colorado, Department of the Interior (DOI), Deposit, Disseminated pluton Au-Sb, Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Epithermal Mn, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center (GGGSC), Idaho, Mine Feature, Mine Shaft, Mineral District, Mineral Occurrence, Mineral Region, Mineral Resources Program (MRP), Mining District, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Open Pit Mine, Placer Au-W, Placer Mine, Polymetallic veins, Porphyry Cu, Porphyry Mo-Cu, Porphyry Mo-Nb, Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin, Replacement in calcareous schists Au-Ag-Sb, Sn greisen deposits, Sn skarn deposits, Texas, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Underground Workings, United States, Utah, W skarn deposits, W veins, Washington, antimony, arsenic, beryllium, copper, critical mineral, data release, deposit type, economic geology, economy, ferberite, fluorspar, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, hübnerite, iron, lead, lithium, location, metallic mineral resources, mine sites, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposits, mineral resources, molybdenum, natural resource exploration, niobium, platinum-group elements, rare-earth elements, rhenium, scheelite, silver, sulfur, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, zinc, Fewer tags