Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data: natural resource exploration

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Natural resource exploration

Techniques for locating deposits or stocks of useful minerals, water, and other resources using reconnaissance or instrumental methods.

This category is also used for dowsing, exploration, and prospecting.

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Seismic exploration (1 items)

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Alaska Resource Data File [New Window]: A comprehensive database of Alaskan mineral deposits compiled from the published literature and from unpublished reports and data from industry, the US Bureau of Land Management, and USGS.
Analytical Results and Sample Locality Map for Rock, Stream-Sediment, and Soil Samples, Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert BLM Resource Area, Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties, California [New Window]: A geochemical survey of the Bureau of Land Management's 5.5 million-acre Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Resource Area
Application of ground penetrating radar to estimate sand and gravel resources near Bow, southern New Hampshire [New Window]: Includes application-specific radar data files.
Map showing areas with potential for garnet resources in bedrock and placer in the Blacktail Mountains and the Gravelly, Greenhorn, Ruby, and Snowcrest ranges of southwestern Montana [New Window]: Geological data in support of mineral resource assessment
Preliminary non-fuel mineral resource assessment of Afghanistan 2007 [New Window]: Description and estimated amounts of resources with supporting data for use in GIS
Databases and simplified geology for mineralized areas, claims, mines, and prospects in Wyoming. [New Window]: This data release contains mineral resource and geology data for metallic and nonmetallic mineral sites in Wyoming. Data is provided in both spreadsheet format (Microsoft Excel) and in GIS ArcView and MapInfo. Text available in PDF format.
Field demonstrations of five geophysical methods that could be used to characterize deposits of alluvial aggregate [New Window]: Data from seismic reflection and refraction, electromagnetic sounding, and resistivity profiling in a study area in Indiana. Exact location is not provided.
Geochemical data for samples collected in 2007 near the concealed Pebble porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit, southwest Alaska [New Window]: Analytical results for geochemical samples collected in 2007 from the Pebble deposit and surrounding environs
Mining claim activity on Federal lands in the contiguous US and Alaska [New Window]: Number and type of mine claims located on Federal lands and registered with the Bureau of Land Management, by year from 1976 through 2007.
Results from the analysis of 723 stream-sediment samples from the Stikine Geophysical Survey area within the Petersburg, Sumdum, Bradfield Canal, and Sitka quadrangles, southeastern Alaska [New Window]: Small regional scale geochemical mineral exploration results from field studies in Duncan Canal, Zarembo Island, and western Etolin Island.

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