This collection is comprised of all field samples collected by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Non-fuel solid mineral branch and the former U.S. Bureau of Mines housed at the Alaska Geologic Materials Center in Anchorage, Alaska. This collection represents the entirety of the BLM Alaska rock collection, totaling 117476 samples consisting of many sample types from core, hand, pan concentrates, stream sediments, thin sections, pulp and other miscellaneous sample types
Summary
This collection is comprised of all field samples collected by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Non-fuel solid mineral branch and the former U.S. Bureau of Mines housed at the Alaska Geologic Materials Center in Anchorage, Alaska. This collection represents the entirety of the BLM Alaska rock collection, totaling 117476 samples consisting of many sample types from core, hand, pan concentrates, stream sediments, thin sections, pulp and other miscellaneous sample types
Please contact the GMC staff at 907-696-0079 or visit the website http://dggs.alaska.gov/gmc/ to arrange a visit.
Purpose
The Alaska Geologic Materials Center (GMC) connects the state's largest geologic collections to research, industry and education communities for the purposes of greater geologic understanding, increased awareness of economic opportunities, and to stimulate public interest and understanding in Alaska's geologic history.
Rights
All samples, processed materials, maps, documents, and data reports at the Alaska GMC are available to the public for examination except those designated by the Curator as confidential. Please view the use and access constraints on the Geologic Materials Center website: https://dggs.alaska.gov/gmc/access-samples.html
This collection has been reviewed and updated by funding from FY 2020 National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, award number G19AP00077.
Additional Information
Identifiers
Type
Scheme
Key
sourceSystem
CSC
1089111
UniqueKey
State Inventory
P1286
NGGDPP Collection Extension
collectionCategories
Hand samples (Hand samples, http://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NGGDPP/collection/category)