63 datasets found
  1. CGS Information Warehouse: Mineral Lands Classification

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    California Department of Conservation (2025). CGS Information Warehouse: Mineral Lands Classification [Dataset]. https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/cgs-information-warehouse-mineral-lands-classification
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    Feb 20, 2025
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    California Department of Conservationhttp://www.conservation.ca.gov/
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description
    Mineral Land Classification (MLC) studies are produced by the State Geologist as specified by the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA, PRC 2710 et seq.) of 1975. To address mineral resource conservation, SMARA mandated a two-phase process called classification-designation. Classification is carried out by the State Geologist and designation is a function of the State Mining and Geology Board. The classification studies contained here evaluate the mineral resources and present this information in the form of Mineral Resource Zones.

    The objective of the classification-designation process is to ensure, through appropriate local lead agency policies and procedures, that mineral materials will be available when needed and do not become inaccessible as a result of inadequate information during the land-use decision-making process.

    For more information about MLC please visit our website.
  2. CGS Information Warehouse: Mineral Land Classification Maps (SMARA...

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    Updated Jun 4, 2019
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    California Department of Conservation (2019). CGS Information Warehouse: Mineral Land Classification Maps (SMARA Petitions) [Dataset]. https://data.ca.gov/dataset/cgs-information-warehouse-mineral-land-classification-maps-smara-petitions
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    Jun 4, 2019
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    California Department of Conservationhttp://www.conservation.ca.gov/
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description
    Mineral Land Classification studies are produced by the State Geologist as specified by the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA, PRC 2710 et seq.) of 1975. To address mineral resource conservation, SMARA mandated a two-phase process called classification-designation. Classification is carried out by the State Geologist and designation is a function of the State Mining and Geology Board. The classification studies contained here evaluate the mineral resources and present this information in the form of Mineral Resource Zones.

    The objective of the classification-designation process is to ensure, through appropriate local lead agency policies and procedures, that mineral materials will be available when needed and do not become inaccessible as a result of inadequate information during the land-use decision-making process.
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    Mineral Resources: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015

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    Updated May 3, 2021
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    (2021). Mineral Resources: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015 [Dataset]. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/bc559yb0972
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    May 3, 2021
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    Santa Cruz County, California
    Description

    This polygon shapefile contains mineral resource areas as defined in the General Plan adopted May 24, 1994 for the County of Santa Cruz, California. These Areas were classified by the State Geologist and designated by the State Mining and Geology Board as regionally or statewide significant Mineral Resource Areas and Areas classified by the State as MRZ-2 Zones (areas containing significant mineral deposits), excluding those areas with existing land uses and/or land use designations which conflict with mineral resource extraction. Mineral Resource Areas are classified via Special Report 146 Part IV, Mineral Land Classification: Aggregate Materials in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area; and designated by the State Mining and Geology Board via the California Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA) Designation Report No. 7, Designation of Regionally Significant Construction Aggregate Resource Areas in the South San Francisco Bay, North San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay Production - Consumption Regions. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data created for Santa Cruz County, California.

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    Mineral Resource Zones, Monterey County, California, 2015

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    Updated Jun 14, 2025
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    (2025). Mineral Resource Zones, Monterey County, California, 2015 [Dataset]. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/fp804cr5490
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    Jun 14, 2025
    Area covered
    Monterey County, California
    Description

    This polygon shapefile contains areas classified as mineral resource zones within Monterey County, California. Zones are classified 1-4, where:MRZ 1 = Mineral Resource Zone where adequate information indicates that no significant mineral deposits are present or likely to be present.MRZ 2 = Mineral Resource Zone where adequate information indicates that significant mineral deposits are present, or there is a high likelihood of their presence and development should be controlled.MRZ 3 = Mineral Resource Zone where the significance of mineral deposits cannot be determined from the available data.MRZ 4 - Mineral Resource Zone where there is insufficient data to assign any other MRZ designation.This layer is part of a collection of GIS data for Monterey County in California.

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    Mineral Resources Data System

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    Updated Oct 29, 2016
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    U.S. Geological Survey (2016). Mineral Resources Data System [Dataset]. https://search.dataone.org/view/3e55bd49-a016-4172-ad78-7292618a08c2
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    Dataset updated
    Oct 29, 2016
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    USGS Science Data Catalog
    Authors
    U.S. Geological Survey
    Area covered
    Variables measured
    ORE, REF, ADMIN, MODEL, STATE, COUNTY, DEP_ID, GANGUE, MAS_ID, REGION, and 29 more
    Description

    Mineral resource occurrence data covering the world, most thoroughly within the U.S. This database contains the records previously provided in the Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS) of USGS and the Mineral Availability System/Mineral Industry Locator System (MAS/MILS) originated in the U.S. Bureau of Mines, which is now part of USGS. The MRDS is a large and complex relational database developed over several decades by hundreds of researchers and reporters. While database records describe mineral resources worldwide, the compilation of information was intended to cover the United States completely, and its coverage of resources in other countries is incomplete. The content of MRDS records was drawn from reports previously published or made available to USGS researchers. Some of those original source materials are no longer available. The information contained in MRDS was intended to reflect the reports used as sources and is current only as of the date of those source reports. Consequently MRDS does not reflect up-to-date changes to the operating status of mines, ownership, land status, production figures and estimates of reserves and resources, or the nature, size, and extent of workings. Information on the geological characteristics of the mineral resource are likely to remain correct, but aspects involving human activity are likely to be out of date.

  6. SMARA Study Areas

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    Updated Jul 16, 2015
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    California Department of Conservation (2015). SMARA Study Areas [Dataset]. https://maps-cadoc.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/smara-study-areas
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 16, 2015
    Dataset authored and provided by
    California Department of Conservationhttp://www.conservation.ca.gov/
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    Description

    Mineral Land Classification studies are produced by the State Geologist as specified by the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA, PRC 2710 et seq.) of 1975. To address mineral resource conservation, SMARA mandated a two-phase process called classification-designation. Classification is carried out by the State Geologist and designation is a function of the State Mining and Geology Board. The classification studies contained here evaluate the mineral resources and present this information in the form of Mineral Resource Zones. The objective of the classification-designation process is to ensure, through appropriate local lead agency policies and procedures, that mineral materials will be available when needed and do not become inaccessible as a result of inadequate information during the land-use decision-making process.

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    Data from: Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from U.S. Geological Survey...

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    Updated Dec 14, 2017
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    Horton, John D.; San Juan, Carma A. (2017). Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from U.S. Geological Survey 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States [Dataset]. https://search.dataone.org/view/a9701210-a1d7-41b4-be00-f9843d2b3892
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    Dec 14, 2017
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    United States Geological Surveyhttp://www.usgs.gov/
    Authors
    Horton, John D.; San Juan, Carma A.
    Time period covered
    Jan 1, 1888 - Jan 1, 2006
    Area covered
    Variables measured
    State, County, GDA_ID, ScanID, Remarks, Ftr_Name, Ftr_Type, Topo_Date, Topo_Name, CompiledBy, and 2 more
    Description

    These data are part of a larger USGS project to develop an updated geospatial database of mines, mineral deposits and mineral regions in the United States. Mine and prospect-related symbols, such as those used to represent prospect pits, mines, adits, dumps, tailings, etc., hereafter referred to as “mine” symbols or features, are currently being digitized on a state-by-state basis from the 7.5-minute (1:24,000-scale) and the 15-minute (1:48,000 and 1:62,500-scale) archive of the USGS Historical Topographic Maps Collection, or acquired from available databases (California and Nevada, 1:24,000-scale only). Compilation of these features is the first phase in capturing accurate locations and general information about features related to mineral resource exploration and extraction across the U.S. To date, the compilation of 500,000-plus point and polygon mine symbols from approximately 67,000 maps of 22 western states has been completed: Arizona (AZ), Arkansas (AR), California (CA), Colorado (CO), Idaho (ID), Iowa (IA), Kansas (KS), Louisiana (LA), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), Montana (MT), North Dakota (ND), Nebraska (NE), New Mexico (NM), Nevada (NV), Oklahoma (OK), Oregon (OR), South Dakota (SD), Texas (TX), Utah (UT), Washington (WA), and Wyoming (WY). The process renders not only a more complete picture of exploration and mining in the western U.S., but an approximate time line of when these activities occurred. The data may be used for land use planning, assessing abandoned mine lands and mine-related environmental impacts, assessing the value of mineral resources from Federal, State and private lands, and mapping mineralized areas and systems for input into the land management process. The data are presented as three groups of layers based on the scale of the source maps. No reconciliation between the data groups was done.

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    Data from: Digital mineral resource maps of phosphate and natural aggregate...

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    Updated Oct 29, 2016
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    Arthur A. Bookstrom; Gary L. Raines; Bruce R. Johnson (2016). Digital mineral resource maps of phosphate and natural aggregate for the Pacific Northwest: a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project [Dataset]. https://search.dataone.org/view/92147438-67c6-4388-9dca-77aeda862ad5
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    Oct 29, 2016
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    USGS Science Data Catalog
    Authors
    Arthur A. Bookstrom; Gary L. Raines; Bruce R. Johnson
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    Variables measured
    SG, ST, SUM, CITY, PHOS, FAVOR, PERMIS, STREAM
    Description

    This report is one in a series of digital maps, data files, and reports generated by the US Geological Survey to provide geologic process and mineral resource information for the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP), a US Forst Service and Bureau of Land Management interagency project. The various digital maps and data files which were provided by the USGS, and which are available in this and other reports, are being used in a GIS-based ecosystem assessment which includes a comprehensive analysis of past, present, and future ecosystem conditions within the general area of the Columbia River Basin east of the Cascade Mountains.

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    Data from: Gridded gravity, magnetic, and pseudogravity data of the Sierra...

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    Updated Oct 1, 2025
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    U.S. Geological Survey (2025). Gridded gravity, magnetic, and pseudogravity data of the Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/gridded-gravity-magnetic-and-pseudogravity-data-of-the-sierra-nevada-california-and-nevada
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    Oct 1, 2025
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    United States Geological Surveyhttp://www.usgs.gov/
    Area covered
    Nevada, Sierra Nevada, California
    Description

    This data release presents gridded data associated with the geologic and geophysical maps of the Sierra Nevada Digital Earth Science Atlas led by the California Geological Survey and U.S. Geological Survey. Grids are provided in ASCII and geotiff formats. Complete Bouguer and isostatic gravity data were gridded from nearly 29,000 gravity measurements that can be used to provide information on crustal structure, such as depth extent of plutons and arc terranes, and geometry of Cenozoic basins developed along the margins of the Sierra Nevada. Data from 57 regional aeromagnetic surveys were merged and gridded to provide information on the magnetic properties of the crust. In addition, these data were transformed to pseudogravity anomalies, which highlight voluminous or thick magnetic sources. The magnetic and pseudodgravity data in particular can aid in delineating mafic and ultramafic rocks as well as structures that may be conducive to mineral resources, such as faults, shear zones, and hydrothermal alteration.

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    Official Plan Schedule B - Mineral Resource Extraction Area

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    Updated Mar 28, 2023
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    Grey County (2023). Official Plan Schedule B - Mineral Resource Extraction Area [Dataset]. https://maps.grey.ca/datasets/official-plan-schedule-b-mineral-resource-extraction-area/about
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    Mar 28, 2023
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    Grey County
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    Description

    Mineral Resource Extraction Areas in Grey County from Official Plan, Schedule B are defined as sand and gravel pits, as well as stone quarries, which are licensed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.

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    USGS Topographic Mine-related Symbols

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    Updated Aug 4, 2016
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    U.S. Geological Survey (2016). USGS Topographic Mine-related Symbols [Dataset]. https://colorado-river-portal.usgs.gov/maps/USGS::usgs-topographic-mine-related-symbols/about
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    Aug 4, 2016
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    United States Geological Surveyhttp://www.usgs.gov/
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    U.S. Geological Survey
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    Description

    Version 10.0 (Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico added) of these data are part of a larger U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) project to develop an updated geospatial database of mines, mineral deposits, and mineral regions in the United States. Mine and prospect-related symbols, such as those used to represent prospect pits, mines, adits, dumps, tailings, etc., hereafter referred to as “mine” symbols or features, have been digitized from the 7.5-minute (1:24,000, 1:25,000-scale; and 1:10,000, 1:20,000 and 1:30,000-scale in Puerto Rico only) and the 15-minute (1:48,000 and 1:62,500-scale; 1:63,360-scale in Alaska only) archive of the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC), or acquired from available databases (California and Nevada, 1:24,000-scale only). Compilation of these features is the first phase in capturing accurate locations and general information about features related to mineral resource exploration and extraction across the U.S. The compilation of 725,690 point and polygon mine symbols from approximately 106,350 maps across 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (PR) and the District of Columbia (DC) has been completed: Alabama (AL), Alaska (AK), Arizona (AZ), Arkansas (AR), California (CA), Colorado (CO), Connecticut (CT), Delaware (DE), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Hawaii (HI), Idaho (ID), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Iowa (IA), Kansas (KS), Kentucky (KY), Louisiana (LA), Maine (ME), Maryland (MD), Massachusetts (MA), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Montana (MT), Nebraska (NE), Nevada (NV), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), New Mexico (NM), New York (NY), North Carolina (NC), North Dakota (ND), Ohio (OH), Oklahoma (OK), Oregon (OR), Pennsylvania (PA), Rhode Island (RI), South Carolina (SC), South Dakota (SD), Tennessee (TN), Texas (TX), Utah (UT), Vermont (VT), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), West Virginia (WV), Wisconsin (WI), and Wyoming (WY). The process renders not only a more complete picture of exploration and mining in the U.S., but an approximate timeline of when these activities occurred. These data may be used for land use planning, assessing abandoned mine lands and mine-related environmental impacts, assessing the value of mineral resources from Federal, State and private lands, and mapping mineralized areas and systems for input into the land management process. These data are presented as three groups of layers based on the scale of the source maps. No reconciliation between the data groups was done.Datasets were developed by the U.S. Geological Survey Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center (GGGSC). Compilation work was completed by USGS National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) interns: Emma L. Boardman-Larson, Grayce M. Gibbs, William R. Gnesda, Montana E. Hauke, Jacob D. Melendez, Amanda L. Ringer, and Alex J. Schwarz; USGS student contractors: Margaret B. Hammond, Germán Schmeda, Patrick C. Scott, Tyler Reyes, Morgan Mullins, Thomas Carroll, Margaret Brantley, and Logan Barrett; and by USGS personnel Virgil S. Alfred, Damon Bickerstaff, E.G. Boyce, Madelyn E. Eysel, Stuart A. Giles, Autumn L. Helfrich, Alan A. Hurlbert, Cheryl L. Novakovich, Sophia J. Pinter, and Andrew F. Smith.USMIN project website: https://www.usgs.gov/USMIN

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    Data from: Mineral Resource Assessment

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    • catalogue.arctic-sdi.org
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    Updated Feb 5, 2025
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    Government of Saskatchewan (2025). Mineral Resource Assessment [Dataset]. https://ouvert.canada.ca/data/dataset/bae8277f-a29b-7024-fdfe-7039459353bd
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    Feb 5, 2025
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    Government of Saskatchewan
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    Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada
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    Description

    This data set represents the digital Mineral Resource potential of the Province of Saskatchewan. This dataset represents the mineral resource potential of Saskatchewan. Methodologies used to determine a ranking system of low to high mineral potential areas. 6 being high mineral potential while 1 being low. The data was created as a file geodatabase feature class and output for public distribution. **Please Note – All published Saskatchewan Geological Survey datasets, including those available through the Saskatchewan Mining and Petroleum GeoAtlas, are sourced from the Enterprise GIS Data Warehouse. They are therefore identical and share the same refresh schedule.

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    Data from: Geochemical data used in the tungsten skarn mineral resource...

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    Updated Nov 26, 2025
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    U.S. Geological Survey (2025). Geochemical data used in the tungsten skarn mineral resource assessment of the Great Basin region of western Nevada and eastern California [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/geochemical-data-used-in-the-tungsten-skarn-mineral-resource-assessment-of-the-great-basin
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    Nov 26, 2025
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    United States Geological Surveyhttp://www.usgs.gov/
    Area covered
    Eastern California, Great Basin
    Description

    The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has undertaken a mineral resources assessment for tungsten for a portion of the Great Basin in parts of western Nevada and east-central California. This data release provides the Great Basin Tungsten Database: the geospatial and geologic data, and results of chemical analyses for 46,955 samples collected in the assessment area, extracted from the USGS National Geochemical Database. These rock records were collected as part of various programs and projects at the USGS and analyzed from 1963 to 2015. The database represents rock records, each comprising one best value chemical determination for each analyzed chemical species, that include skarns, carbonate lithologies (for example, limestones, dolostones, siliclastic-carbonates, metacarbonates), and granitoid lithologies (intrusive, hypabyssal, and extrusive rocks containing greater than or equal to 65 weight percent SiO2). It was compiled to integrate geochemical rock data along with geologic mapping, mineral sites, geophysical, remote sensing, and watershed data to facilitate the assessment of tungsten skarn mineral resource potential in the region. In general, mineral resources assessments rely heavily on already available databases of mineral sites descriptions and geochemical results of analyses carried out on samples collected over the years with different exploration objectives. As is the case with many large databases that have been built over the course of many years and are therefore the result of contributions from many people and projects with specific and independent objectives, there might be a lack of consistency of the data included and some records might be richly attributed, with complete descriptions while others might be unusable due to the lack of criteria to consider them reliable. To deal with this situation, this subset has been revised, refined, and improved for usability in the assessment and the results presented here are what is considered as “best values” of those analyses. The methodology employed to obtain “best values” from analytical data, described by Granitto and others (2019), takes into consideration the variables that intervened at the time of the analysis, such as sample weight, sample decomposition or digestion method, analytical instrumentation, sensitivity, reliability, age of the method, limits of detection; and produces a series of tables that rank, from best to least preferred, the analytical methods that produced the values reported for each element in the database. The data provided in this compilation are the most comprehensive and accurate to date and should be useful for various geochemical studies across this region.

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    Mineral Deposits by Zone

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    Updated Oct 3, 2025
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    (2025). Mineral Deposits by Zone [Dataset]. https://catalogue.arctic-sdi.org/geonetwork/srv/search?keyword=gold-grade
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    Oct 3, 2025
    Description

    The purpose of this dataset is to provide quantitative analysis on specific commodities, offering insights into: - The total amount of specific commodities, e.g., Gold, in Yukon's hard rock deposits. - The highest-grade and largest deposits in Yukon. - The distribution of mineral resources within multiple zones in a deposit. - Source reports, direct links, and confidence levels for each mineral resource statement. - Differentiation between 43-101, JORC, and historical estimates. The resources in this dataset have been summarized and averaged to show the total geologic resource for a property or zone. For the exact numbers, please refer to the NI 43-101 compliant resource statement. +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Field\ | Description\ | | \ | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Property\ | Property for which deposit | | \ | resource was calculated.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Zone\ | Zone for which deposit resource | | \ | was calculated.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | 43-101 Compliant\ | If the resource calculation is NI | | \ | 43-101 compliant, JORC compliant, | | | or historic.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Commodities\ | The types of commodities | | \ | contained in the resource | | | calculation, order is | | | alphabetic.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Categories\ | The resource categories used to | | \ | create the calculation. This | | | indicates the level of certainty | | | of the calculation.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Resource / Reserve\ | If the resource calculation is | | \ | considered to be a reserve or | | | resource. A reserve factors | | | economic factors an | | | extractability of the deposit | | | into account.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Tonnage\ | The total tonnage of the deposit\ | | \ | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_AU_GT\ | The average grade of gold in the | | \ | deposit, in grams per metric | | | tonne.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_AU_OZ\ | The total contained gold, in troy | | \ | ounces.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_AG_GT\ | The average grade of silver in | | \ | the deposit, in grams per metric | | | tonne.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_AG_OZ\ | The total contained silver, in | | \ | troy ounces.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_CU_PCT\ | The average grade of copper in | | \ | the deposit, in percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_CU_LBS\ | The total contained gold, in | | \ | pounds.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_MO_PCT\ | The average grade of molybdenum | | \ | in the deposit, in percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_MO_LBS\ | The total contained molybdenum, | | \ | in pounds.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_PB_PCT\ | The average grade of lead in the | | \ | deposit, in percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_PB_LBS\ | The total contained lead, in | | \ | pounds.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_ZN_PCT\ | The average grade of zinc in the | | \ | deposit, in percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_ZN_LBS\ | The total contained zinc, in | | \ | pounds\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_NI_PCT\ | The average grade of nickel in | | \ | the deposit, in percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_NI_LBS\ | The total contained nickel, in | | \ | pounds.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_CO_PCT\ | The average grade of cobalt in | | \ | the deposit, in percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_CO_LBS\ | The total contained cobalt, in | | \ | pounds.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_WO3_PCT\ | The average grade of tungsten | | \ | trioxide in the deposit, in | | | percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_WO3_LBS\ | The total contained tungsten | | \ | trioxide, in pounds.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_SN_PCT\ | The average grade of tin in the | | \ | deposit, in percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_SN_LBS\ | The total contained tin, in | | \ | pounds.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_SB_PCT\ | The average grade of antimony in | | \ | the deposit, in percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_SB_LBS\ | The total contained antimony, in | | \ | pounds.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_FE_PCT\ | The average grade of iron in the | | \ | deposit, in percentage.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_FE_LBS\ | The total contained iron, in | | \ | pounds.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_PT_GT\ | The average grade of platinum in | | \ | the deposit, in grams per metric | | | tonne.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_PT_OZ\ | The total contained platinum, in | | \ | troy ounces.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_PD_GT\ | The average grade of palladium in | | \ | the deposit, in grams per metric | | | tonne.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | TOTAL_PD_OZ\ | The total contained palladium, in | | \ | troy ounces.\ | | | \ | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | AVG_BASO4_PCT\ | The average grade of barium | | \ | sulphate in the deposit, in | | | 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    Data from: Folds--Offshore of Half Moon Bay Map Area, California

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    H.G. Greene; M.W. Manson; B.E. Dieter; S.L. Ross; S.R. Hartwell; S.Y. Johnson; J.T. Watt (2017). Folds--Offshore of Half Moon Bay Map Area, California [Dataset]. https://search.dataone.org/view/1e799b8d-736f-4c8a-8be5-50988d250b54
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    H.G. Greene; M.W. Manson; B.E. Dieter; S.L. Ross; S.R. Hartwell; S.Y. Johnson; J.T. Watt
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    Jan 1, 2007 - Jan 1, 2010
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    Label, Shape, RuleID, OBJECTID, Shape_Length
    Description

    This part of DS 781 presents data for folds for the geologic and geomorphic map of the Offshore of Half Moon Bay map area, California. The vector data file is included in "Folds_OffshoreHalfMoonBay.zip," which is accessible from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshoreHalfMoonBay/data_catalog_OffshoreHalfMoonBay.html. The Offshore of Half Moon Bay map area lies about 12 km southwest of the San Andreas Fault, the dominant structure in the distributed, right-lateral, transform boundary between the North American and Pacific plates. The map area straddles the right-lateral San Gregorio Fault, the most important structure west of the San Andreas Fault in this broad zone. The San Gregorio is part of fault system that occurs predominantly in the offshore, extending about 400 km from Point Conception on the south to Bolinas and Point Reyes on the north (Dickinson and others, 2005), intersecting land at a few coastal promontories. In the Offshore of Half Moon Bay map area, the San Gregorio Fault forms a distributed shear zone about 2 to 4.5 km wide that includes two primary diverging fault strands. The eastern strand (also known as the Seal Cove Fault or Coastways Fault) roughly parallels the shoreline, lies onshore for about 3 km at Pillar Point, and locally forms the boundary between outcrops of Cretaceous grantic rocks to the east and Purisima Formation to the west. The western strand (also known as the Frijoles Fault) lies entirely offshore and forms a boundary between the Purisima Formation on the east and undifferentiated Cretaceous and (or) Tertiary rocks (Pigeon Point Formation?) of the Pigeon Point structural block (McCulloch, 1987) on the west. The Pigeon Point block forms a northwest-trending bedrock ridge that extends offshore for about 30 km from Pescadero Point and forms the northwest boundary of the outer Santa Cruz Basin (McCulloch, 1987). Cumulative lateral slip on the San Gregorio Fault zone is thought to range from 4 to 10 mm/yr in this region (U.S. Geological Survey, 2010). Bathymetric (Bathymetry--Offshore Half Moon Bay, California, DS 781) and seismic-reflection data (see field activity S-15-10-NC) reveal that the offshore outcrops of the Purisima Formation between the eastern and western strands of the San Gregorio Fault Zone are spectacularly folded, faulted and rotated by the strike-slip motion and drag along the faults. The entire map area lies along strike with the young, high topography of the Santa Cruz Mountains and Coast Ranges. This regional uplift has been linked to a northwest transpressive bend in the San Andreas Fault (for example, Zoback and others, 1999). Uplift of nearby marine terraces at rates up to 0.44 mm/yr confirms that this uplift includes the coastal zone (Weber and others, 1995). Folds were primarily mapped by interpretation of seismic reflection profile data (see field activity S-15-10-NC). The seismic reflection profiles were collected between 2007 and 2010. References Cited Dickinson, W.R., Ducea, M., Rosenberg, L.I., Greene, H.G., Graham, S.A., Clark, J.C., Weber, G.E., Kidder, S., Ernst, W.G., and Brabb, E.E., 2005, Net dextral slip, Neogene San Gregorio-Hosgri fault zone, coastal California: Geologic evidence and tectonic implications: Geological Society of America Special Paper 391, 43 p. McCulloch, D.S., 1987, Regional geology and hydrocarbon potential of offshore Central California, in Scholl, D.W., Grantz, A., and Vedder, J.G., eds., Geology and resource potential of the continental margin of Western North America and adjacent ocean basins - Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series, v. 6, p. 353-401. U.S. Geological Survey and California Geological Survey, 2010, Quaternary fault and fold database for the United States, accessed April 5, 2012, from USGS website: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/qfaults/. Weber, G.E., Nolan, J.M., and Zinn, E.N., 1995, Determination of late Pleistocene-Holocene slip rates along the San Gregorio fault zone, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, California: Final Technical Report, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program, Contract No. 1434-93-G-2336, 70 p., 4 map sheets. Zoback, M.L., Jachens, R.C., and Olson, J.A., 1999, Abrupt along-strike change in tectonic style: San Andreas fault zone, San Francisco Peninsula: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 104 (B5), p. 10,719-10,742.

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    Geology and geomorphology--Drakes Bay and Vicinity Bay Map Area, California

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    Department of the Interior (2017). Geology and geomorphology--Drakes Bay and Vicinity Bay Map Area, California [Dataset]. https://data.wu.ac.at/schema/data_gov/MTNjMTU3ZTktOTYxOS00ZjJmLWE3OTQtOTI1YWMwZTBkMTQx
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    This part of DS 781 presents data for the geologic and geomorphic map of the Drakes Bay and Vicinity map area, California. The polygon shapefile is included in "Geology_DrakesBay.zip," which is accessible from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/DrakesBay/data_catalog_DrakesBay.html. Marine geology and geomorphology was mapped in the Drakes Bay and Vicinity map area from approximate Mean High Water (MHW) to the 3-nautical-mile limit of Californiaâ  s State Waters. MHW is defined at an elevation of 1.46 m above the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) (Weber and others, 2005). Offshore geologic units were delineated on the basis of integrated analyses of adjacent onshore geology with multibeam bathymetry and backscatter imagery, seafloor-sediment and rock samples (Reid and others, 2006), digital camera and video imagery, and high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles. The onshore bedrock mapping was compiled from Galloway (1977), Clark and Brabb (1997), and Wagner and Gutierrez (2010). Quaternary mapping was compiled from Witter and others (2006) and Wagner and Gutierrez (2010), with unit contacts modified based on analysis of 2012 LiDAR imagery; and additional Quaternary mapping by M.W. Manson. San Andreas Fault traces are compiled from California Geological Survey (1974) and Wagner and Gutierrez (2010). The offshore part of the map area includes the large embayment known as Drakes Bay and extends from the shoreline to water depths of about 40 to 60 m. The continental shelf is quite wide in this area, with the shelfbreak located west of the Farallon High, about 35 km offshore. This map area is largely characterized by a relatively flat (<0.8à °) bedrock platform that is locally overlain by thin sediment cover. Sea level has risen about 125 to 130 m over about the last 21,000 years (for example, Lambeck and Chappell, 2001; Peltier and Fairbanks, 2006), leading to broadening of the continental shelf, progressive eastward migration of the shoreline and wave-cut platform, and associated transgressive erosion and deposition (for example, Catuneanu, 2006). Land-derived sediment was carried into this dynamic setting, and then subjected to full Pacific Ocean wave energy and strong currents before deposition or offshore transport. Tectonic influences impacting shelf morphology and geology are related to local faulting, folding, uplift, and subsidence. The Point Reyes Fault Zone runs through the map area and is an offshore curvilinear reverse fault zone (Hoskins and Griffiths, 1971; McCulloch, 1987; Heck and others, 1990; Stozek, 2012) that likely connects with the western San Gregorio fault further to the south (Ryan and others, 2008), making it part of the San Andreas Fault System. The Point Reyes Fault Zone is characterized by a 5 to 11 km-wide zone that is associated with two main fault structures, the Point Reyes Fault and the Western Point Reyes Fault. Late Pleistocene uplift of marine terraces on the Point Reyes Peninsula suggests active deformation west of the San Andreas Fault (Grove and others, 2010). Offshore Double Point, the Point Reyes Fault is associated with warping and folding of Neogene strata visible on high-resolution seismic data. In this map area the cumulative (post-Miocene) slip-rate on the Point Reyes Fault Zone is poorly constrained, but is estimated to be 0.3 mm/yr based on vertical offset of granitic basement rocks (McCulloch, 1987; Wills and others, 2008). Salinian granitic basement rocks (unit Kgg) are exposed on the Point Reyes headland and offshore in the northwest corner of the map area. The granitic rocks are mapped on the basis of massive, bulbous texture and extensive fracturing in multibeam imagery, and high backscatter. Much of the inner shelf is underlain by Neogene marine sedimentary rocks that form the core of the Point Reyes syncline (Weaver, 1949), and include the mid- to late Miocene Monterey Formation (unit Tm), late Miocene Santa Margarita Formation (unit Tsm), late Miocene Santa Cruz Mudstone (unit Tsc), and late Miocene to early Pliocene Purisima Formation (unit Tp; Clark and Brabb, 1997; Powell and others, 2007). At Millers Point, the Monterey Formation is exposed onshore and on the seafloor in the nearshore and appears highly fractured with bedding planes difficult to identify. Seafloor exposures of the younger Tsc and Tp units are characterized by distinct rhythmic bedding and are often gently folded and fractured. Unit Tu refers to seafloor outcrops that may include unit Tm, unit Tsm, or unit Tsc. The Santa Cruz Mudstone and underlying Santa Margarita Sandstone at Double Point are more than 450 m thick in an oil test well (Clark and Brabb, 1997), and these units form coastal bluffs and tidal zone exposures that extend onto the adjacent bedrock shelf. The Santa Cruz Mudstone thins markedly to the northwest and disappears from the section about 10 km to the northwest where Purisima Formation unconformably overlies Santa Margarita Sandstone. We infer the offshore contact between the Santa Cruz Mudstone and Purisima Formation based on an angular unconformity visible in seismic data just southeast of the map area. This angular unconformity becomes conformable to the northwest in the Drakes Bay and Vicinity map area. We suggest this contact bends northward in the subsurface and comes onshore near U-Ranch (Galloway, 1977; Clark and Brabb, 1997). Given the lack of lithological evidence for this contact offshore Double Point, this interpretation is speculative, and an alternative interpretation is that the noted unconformity occurs within the Santa Cruz Mudstone. For this reason, we have queried unit Tp here to indicate this uncertainty. Modern nearshore sediments are mostly sand (unit Qms) and a mix of sand, gravel, and cobbles (units Qmsc and Qmsd). The more coarse-grained sands and gravels (units Qmsc and Qmsd) are primarily recognized on the basis of bathymetry and high backscatter (see Bathymetry--Drakes Bay, California and Backscattter A to C--Drakes Bay, California, DS 781, for more information). Both Qmsc and Qmsd typically have abrupt landward contacts with bedrock and form irregular to lenticular exposures that are commonly elongate in the shore-normal direction. Contacts between units Qmsc and Qms are typically gradational. Unit Qmsd forms erosional lags in scoured depressions that are bounded by relatively sharp and less commonly diffuse contacts with unit Qms horizontal sand sheets. These depressions are typically a few tens of centimeters deep and range in size from a few 10's of meters to more than 1 km2. There are two areas of high-backscatter, and rough seafloor that are notable in that each includes several small (less than about 20,000 m2), irregular "lumps", with as much as 1 m of positive relief above the seafloor (unit Qsr). Southeast of the Point Reyes headland, unit Qsr occurs in water depths between 50 and 60 meters, with individual lumps randomly distributed to west-trending. Southwest of Double Point, unit Qsr occurs in water depths between 30 and 40 meters, with individual lumps having a more northwest trend. Seismic-reflection data (see field activity S-8-09-NC) reveal this lumpy material rests on several meters of latest Pleistocene to Holocene sediment and is thus not bedrock outcrop. Rather, it seems likely that this lumpy material is marine debris, possibly derived from one (or more) of the more than 60 shipwrecks offshore of the Point Reyes Peninsula between 1849 and 1940 (National Park Service, 2012). It is also conceivable that this lumpy terrane consists of biological "hardgrounds". Video transect data crossing unit Qsr near the Point Reyes headland was of insufficient quality to distinguish between these above alternatives. A transition to more fine-grained marine sediments (unit Qmsf) occurs around 50-60 m depth south of the Point Reyes headland and west of Double Point, however, directly south and east of Drakes Estero estuary, backscatter and seafloor sediment samples (Chin and others, 1997) suggest fine-grained sediments extend into water depths as shallow as 30 m. Unit Qmsf is commonly extensively bioturbated and consists primarily of mud and muddy sand. These fine-grained sediments are inferred to have been derived from the Drakes and Limantour Esteros or from the San Francisco Bay to the south, via predominantly northwest flow at the seafloor (Noble and Gelfenbaum, 1990). References Cited Catuneanu, O., 2006, Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy: Amsterdam, Elsevier, 375 p. Chin, J.L., Karl, H.A., and Maher, N.M., 1997, Shallow subsurface geology of the continental shelf, Gulf of the Farallones, California, and its relationship to surficial seafloor characteristics: Marine Geology, v. 137, p. 251-269. Clark, J.C., and Brabb, E.E., 1997, Geology of the Point Reyes National Seashore and vicinity: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-456, scale 1:48,000. Grove, K., Sklar, L.S., Scherer, A.M., Lee, G., and Davis, J., 2010, Accelerating and spatially-varying crustal uplift and its geomorphic expression, San Andreas Fault zone north of San Francisco, California: Tectonophysics, v. 495, p. 256-268. Hoskins E.G., Griffiths, J.R., 1971, Hydrocarbon potential of northern and central California offshore: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 15, p. 212-228. Lambeck, K., and Chappell, J., 2001, Sea level change through the last glacial cycle: Science, v. 292, p. 679-686, doi: 10.1126/science.1059549. McCulloch, D.S., 1987, Regional geology and hydrocarbon potential of offshore Central California, in Scholl, D.W., Grantz, A., and Vedder, J.G., eds., Geology and resource potential of the continental margin of Western North America and adjacent ocean basins-Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series, v. 6, p. 353-401. National Park Service, 2012, Shipwrecks at Point Reyes, available at:

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    Faults--Offshore of Fort Ross Map Area, California

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    Department of the Interior (2017). Faults--Offshore of Fort Ross Map Area, California [Dataset]. https://data.wu.ac.at/schema/data_gov/YzllODdlZTUtZWQ4OS00MzFmLWJlMmYtODg2YzlmOTc4MjRh
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    This part of DS 781 presents data for faults for the geologic and geomorphic map of the Offshore of Fort Ross map area, California. The vector data file is included in "Faults_OffshoreFortRoss.zip," which is accessible from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshoreFortRoss/data_catalog_OffshoreFortRoss.html. The Offshore of Fort Ross map area is cut by the northwest-trending San Andreas Fault, the right-lateral transform boundary between the North American and Pacific tectonic plates. The San Andreas extends across the inner shelf in the southern part of the map, then crosses the shoreline at Fort Ross and continues onland for about 75 km to the east flank of Point Arena (fig. 8-1). Seismic-reflection data are used to map the offshore fault trace, and reveal a relatively simple, 200- to 500-m wide zone typically characterized by one or two primary strands. About 1500 m west of the San Andreas Fault, the mid shelf (between water depths of 40 m and 70 m) in the southernmost part of the map area includes an about 5-km-wide field of elongate, shore-normal sediment lobes (unit Qmsl). Individual lobes within the field are as much as 650-m long and 200-m wide, have as much as 1.5 m (check with Steve) of relief above the surrounding smooth seafloor, and are commonly connected with upslope chutes. Given their morphology and proxmity to the San Andreas fault, we infer that these lobes result from slope failures associated with strong ground motions triggered by large San Andreas earthquakes. Movement on the San Andreas has juxtaposed different coastal bedrock blocks (Blake and others, 2002). Rocks east of the fault that occur along the coast and in the nearshore belong to the late Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Jurassic Franciscan Complex, either sandstone of the Coastal Belt or Central Belt (unit TKfs) or melange of the central terrane (unit fsr). Bedrock west of the fault are considered part of the Gualala Block (Elder, 1998) and include the Eocene and Paleocene German Rancho Formation (unit Tgr) and the Miocene sandstone and mudstone of the Fort Ross area (unit Tsm). This section of the San Andreas Fault onland has an estimated slip rate of about 17 to 25 mm/yr (Bryant and Lundberg, 2002). The devastating Great 1906 California earthquake (M 7.8) is thought to have nucleated on the San Andreas Fault about 100 kilometers south of this map area offshore of San Francisco (e.g., Bolt, 1968; Lomax, 2005), with the rupture extending northward through the Offshore of Fort Ross map area to the south flank of Cape Mendocino. Emergent marine terraces along the coast in the Offshore of Fort Ross map area record recent contractional deformation associated with the San Andreas Fault system. Prentice and Kelson (2006) report uplift rates of 0.3 to 0.6 mm/yr for a late Pleistocene terrace exposed at Fort Ross, and this recent uplift must also have affect the nearshore and inner shelf. Previously, McCulloch (1987) mapped a nearshore (within 3 to 5 km of the coast) fault zone from Point Arena to Fort Ross (Fig. 8-1) using primarily deeper industry seismic-reflection data. Subsequently, Dickinson and others (2005) named this structure the "Gualala Fault." Our mapping, also based on seismic-reflection data, reveals this structure as a steep, northeast trending fault and similarly shows the fault ending to the south in the northern part of the Offshore of Fort Ross map area. We have designated the zone of faulting and folding above this structure the "Gualala Fault deformation zone." Faults were primarily mapped by interpretation of seismic reflection profile data (see field activity S-8-09-NC). The seismic reflection profiles were collected between 2007 and 2010. References Cited Blake, M.C., Jr., Graymer, R.W., and Stamski, R.E., 2002, Geologic map and map database of western Sonoma, northernmost Marin, and southernmost Mendocino counties, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 2402, scale 1:100,000. Bolt, B.A., 1968, The focus of the 1906 California earthquake: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 58, p. 457-471. Bryant, W.A., and Lundberg, M.M., compilers, 2002, Fault number 1b, San Andreas fault zone, North Coast section, in Quaternary fault and fold database of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey website, accessed April 4, 2013, at http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/hazards/qfaults. Dickinson, W.R., Ducea, M., Rosenberg, L.I., Greene, H.G., Graham, S.A., Clark, J.C., Weber, G.E., Kidder, S., Ernst, W.G., and Brabb, E.E., 2005, Net dextral slip, Neogene San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault Zone, coastal California: Geologic evidence and tectonic implications: Geological Society of America Special Paper 391, 43 p. Elder, W.P., ed., 1998, Geology and tectonics of the Gualala Block, northern California: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 84, 222 p. Lomax, A., 2005, A reanalysis of the hypocentral location and related observations for the Great 1906 California earthquake: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 95, p. 861-877. McCulloch, D.S., 1987, Regional geology and hydrocarbon potential of offshore central California, in Scholl, D.W., Grantz, A., and Vedder, J.G., eds., Geology and Resource Potential of the Continental Margin of Western North America and Adjacent Oceans -- Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 6., p. 353-401. Prentice, C.S., and Kelson, K.I., 2006, The San Andreas fault in Sonoma and Mendocino counties, in Prentice, C.S., Scotchmoor, J.G., Moores, E.M., and Kiland, J.P., eds., 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial Field Guides: Field trips associated with the 100th Anniversary Conference, 18-23 April 2006, San Francisco, California: Geological Society of America Field Guide 7, p. 127-156.

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    Faults--Monterey Canyon and Vicinity Map Area, California

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    K.L. Maier; S.R. Hartwell; S.Y. Johnson; C.W. Davenport; H.G. Greene (2016). Faults--Monterey Canyon and Vicinity Map Area, California [Dataset]. https://dataone.org/datasets/b84512f1-9226-4fe7-b18e-8741f38e0bc7
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    K.L. Maier; S.R. Hartwell; S.Y. Johnson; C.W. Davenport; H.G. Greene
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    Jan 1, 2009 - Jan 1, 2012
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    Variables measured
    FID, Shape, FGDCRefNo, Shape_Length
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    This part of DS 781 presents data for the faults for the geologic and geomorphic map of Monterey Canyon and Vicinity, California. The vector data file is included in "Faults_MontereyCanyon.zip," which is accessible from http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7XD0ZQ4. The shelf in the Monterey Bay and Vicinity map area is cut by a diffuse zone of northwest-striking, steeply dipping to vertical faults mapped with high-resolution, seismic-reflection profiles (sheet 8). Faults are mapped on the basis of abrupt truncation or warping of reflections and (or) juxtaposition of reflection panels with different seismic parameters. Seismic profiles traversing this diffuse zone cross as many as 13 faults over a distance of 8 km (for example, fig. 3, sheet 8). Mapped fault lengths in this diffuse zone are typically 2 to 7 km, and the strike of these offshore faults rotates from about 325° to 350° from southwest to northeast. Faults in this diffuse zone cut through Neogene bedrock and locally appear to disrupt overlying latest Quaternary sediments, and the presence of warped reflections along some fault strands suggests there may be both vertical and strike-slip offsets. This broad, distributed zone of deformation resembles the northwest-trending Monterey Bay Fault Zone (Greene, 1977, 1990), which occurs about 10 km farther west in outer Monterey Bay and similarly lacks a lengthy (> 20 km), continuous "master fault." Deformation in both the Monterey Bay Fault Zone and the diffuse zone of faults in the Monterey Bay and Vicinity map area is attributable to its location in the 40-km-wide, northward-narrowing structural zone between two major, right-lateral, strike-slip faults, the San Andreas Fault to the east and the offshore San Gregorio Fault to the west (fig. 1-1) (McCulloch, 1987; Brabb, 1997; Wagner and others, 2002; Dickinson and others, 2005). Faults were primarily mapped by interpretation of seismic reflection profile data (see OFR 2013-1071). The seismic reflection profiles were collected between 2007 and 2010. References Cited Brabb, E.E., 1997, Geologic Map of Santa Cruz County, California: A digital database, US Geological Survey Open-File Report 97–489, 1:62,500. Dickinson, W.R., Ducea, M., Rosenberg, L.I., Greene, H.G., Graham, S.A., Clark, J.C., Weber, G.E., Kidder, S., Ernst, W.G., and Brabb, E.E., 2005, Net dextral slip, Neogene San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault Zone, coastal California: Geologic evidence and tectonic implications: Geological Society of America Special Paper 391, 43 p. Greene, H.G., 1977, Geology of the Monterey Bay region: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77–718, 347 p. Greene, H.G., 1990, Regional tectonics and structural evolution of the Monterey Bay region, central California, in Garrison, R.E., Greene, H.G., Hicks, K.R., Weber, G.E., and Wright, T.L., eds., Geology and tectonics of the central California coastal region, San Francisco to Monterey, Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Guidebook GB-67, p. 31–56. McCulloch, D.S., 1987, Regional geology and hydrocarbon potential of offshore central California, in Scholl, D.W., Grantz, A., and Vedder, J.G., eds., Geology and Resource Potential of the Continental Margin of Western North America and Adjacent Oceans -- Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 6., p. 353–401. Wagner, D.L., Greene, H.G., Saucedo, G.J., and Pridmore, C.L., 2002, Geologic Map of the Monterey 30' x 60' quadrangle and adjacent areas, California: California Geological Survey Regional Geologic Map Series, scale 1:100,000.

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    Folds--Offshore Scott Creek, California

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    S.R. Hartwell; S.Y. Johnson; C.W. Davenport (2017). Folds--Offshore Scott Creek, California [Dataset]. https://search.dataone.org/view/3b834473-4909-4885-a107-258d191d2f3b
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    S.R. Hartwell; S.Y. Johnson; C.W. Davenport
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    Jan 1, 2009 - Jan 1, 2012
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    Variables measured
    FID, Shape, FGDCRefNo, Shape_Length
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    This part of DS 781 presents data for the folds for the geologic and geomorphic map of the Offshore of Scott Creek map area, California. The vector data file is included in "Folds_OffshoreScottCreek.zip," which is accessible from http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7CJ8BJW. The offshore of Scott Creek map area straddles the right-lateral San Gregorio Fault Zone, an important structure in the distributed transform boundary between the North American and Pacific plates (see, for example, Dickinson and others, 2005). Regionally, this fault is part of a system that occurs predominantly in the offshore for about 400 km from Point Conception in the south (where it is known as the Hosgri fault; Johnson and Watt, 2012) to Bolinas and Point Reyes in the north (Bruns and others, 2002; Ryan and others, 2008). The San Gregorio Fault in the map area is part of a 90-km-long offshore segment that extends from Point Sur on the south, across outer Monterey Bay to Point Año Nuevo (just one kilometer north of the map area) on the north (Weber and Lajoie, 1980; Brabb, 1997; Wagner and others, 2002). Offshore parts of this fault system are identified on seismic-reflection data based on abrupt truncation or warping of reflections and (or) juxtaposition of reflection panels with different seismic parameters. In this map area, the San Gregorio Fault forms a distributed about 2-km-wide shear zone that includes two main faults. The nearshore eastern part of the zone, which includes the Coastways Fault, partly coincides with a prominent bathymetric lineament on the outer flank of nearshore bedrock outcrops between Waddell Creek and Davenport. The western part of the zone, which includes the Frijoles Fault, cuts across the flat, sediment-covered shelf. Cumulative lateral slip on San Gregorio Fault Zone in this region is thought to range from 4 to 10 mm/yr (Weber, 1994). McCulloch (1987) considered the San Gregorio Fault Zone the eastern margin of the Outer Santa Cruz Basin (fig. 8-1). Farther offshore, outside California's State Waters but within the map area, this basin is cut by the northwest-trending Ascension Fault (Greene and others, 2002; U.S. Geological Survey and California Geological Survey, 2010). References Cited Brabb, E.E., 1997, Geologic Map of Santa Cruz County, California: A digital database, US Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-489, 1:62,500. Bruns, T.R., Cooper, A.K., Carlson, P.R., and McCulloch, D.S., 2002, Structure of the submerged San Andreas and San Gregorio Fault zones in the Gulf of Farallones as inferred from high-resolution seismic-reflection data, in Parsons, T. (ed.), Crustal structure of the coastal and marine San Francisco Bay region, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1658, p. 77-117. Dickinson, W.R., Ducea, M., Rosenberg, L.I., Greene, H.G., Graham, S.A., Clark, J.C., Weber, G.E., Kidder, S., Ernst, W.G., and Brabb, E.E., 2005, Net dextral slip, Neogene San Gregorio-Hosgri fault zone, coastal California - Geologic evidence and tectonic implications: Geological Society of America Special Paper 391, 43 p. Greene, H.G., Maher, N.M., and Paull, C.K., 2002, Physiography of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and implications about continental margin development: Marine Geology, v. 181, p. 55-82. Johnson, S.Y., and Watt, J.T., 2012, Influence of fault trend, bends, and convergence on shallow structure and geomorphology of the Hosgri strike-slip fault, offshore Central California: Geosphere, v. McCulloch, D.S., 1987, Regional geology and hydrocarbon potential of offshore central California, in Scholl, D.W., Grantz, A., and Vedder, J.G., eds., Geology and Resource Potential of the Continental Margin of Western North America and Adjacent Oceans -- Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 6., p. 353-401. Ryan, H.F., Parsons, T., and Sliter, R.W., 2008. Vertical tectonic deformation associated with the San Andreas fault zone offshore of San Francisco, California: Tectonphysics, v. 429, p. 209-224. Weber, G.E., and LaJoie, K.R., 1980, Map of Quaternary faulting along the San Gregorio fault zone, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, California: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-907. Wagner, D.L., Greene, H.G., Saucedo, G.J., and Pridmore, C.L., 2002, Geologic Map of the Monterey 30' x 60' quadrangle and adjacent areas, California: California Geological Survey Regional Geologic Map Series, scale 1:100,000.

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    Faults--Offshore Scott Creek, California

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    S.R. Hartwell; S.Y. Johnson; C.W. Davenport (2016). Faults--Offshore Scott Creek, California [Dataset]. https://dataone.org/datasets/ad1dc07a-0384-4028-8915-6bc687c6562f
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    FID, Shape, FGDCRefNo, Shape_Length
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    This part of DS 781 presents data for the faults for the geologic and geomorphic map of the Offshore of Scott Creek map area, California. The vector data file is included in "Faults_OffshoreScottCreek.zip," which is accessible from http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7CJ8BJW. The offshore of Scott Creek map area straddles the right-lateral San Gregorio Fault Zone, an important structure in the distributed transform boundary between the North American and Pacific plates (see, for example, Dickinson and others, 2005). Regionally, this fault is part of a system that occurs predominantly in the offshore for about 400 km from Point Conception in the south (where it is known as the Hosgri fault; Johnson and Watt, 2012) to Bolinas and Point Reyes in the north (Bruns and others, 2002; Ryan and others, 2008). The San Gregorio Fault in the map area is part of a 90-km-long offshore segment that extends from Point Sur on the south, across outer Monterey Bay to Point Año Nuevo (just one kilometer north of the map area) on the north; Weber and Lajoie, 1980; Brabb, 1997; Wagner and others, 2002). Offshore parts of this fault system are identified on seismic-reflection data based on abrupt truncation or warping of reflections and (or) juxtaposition of reflection panels with different seismic parameters. In this map area, the San Gregorio Fault forms a distributed about 2-km-wide shear zone that includes two main faults. The nearshore eastern part of the zone, which includes the Coastways Fault, partly coincides with a prominent bathymetric lineament on the outer flank of nearshore bedrock outcrops between Waddell Creek and Davenport. The western part of the zone, which includes the Frijoles Fault, cuts across the flat, sediment-covered shelf. Cumulative lateral slip on San Gregorio Fault Zone in this region is thought to range from 4 to 10 mm/yr (Weber, 1994). McCulloch (1987) considered the San Gregorio Fault Zone the eastern margin of the Outer Santa Cruz Basin (fig. 8-1). Farther offshore, outside California's State Waters but within the map area, this basin is cut by the northwest-trending Ascension Fault (Greene and others, 2002; U.S. Geological Survey and California Geological Survey, 2010). References Cited Brabb, E.E., 1997, Geologic Map of Santa Cruz County, California: A digital database, US Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-489, 1:62,500. Bruns, T.R., Cooper, A.K., Carlson, P.R., and McCulloch, D.S., 2002, Structure of the submerged San Andreas and San Gregorio Fault zones in the Gulf of Farallones as inferred from high-resolution seismic-reflection data, in Parsons, T. (ed.), Crustal structure of the coastal and marine San Francisco Bay region, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1658, p. 77-117. Dickinson, W.R., Ducea, M., Rosenberg, L.I., Greene, H.G., Graham, S.A., Clark, J.C., Weber, G.E., Kidder, S., Ernst, W.G., and Brabb, E.E., 2005, Net dextral slip, Neogene San Gregorio - Hosgri fault zone, coastal California - Geologic evidence and tectonic implications: Geological Society of America Special Paper 391, 43 p. Greene, H.G., Maher, N.M., and Paull, C.K., 2002, Physiography of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and implications about continental margin development: Marine Geology, v. 181, p. 55-82. Johnson, S.Y., and Watt, J.T., 2012, Influence of fault trend, bends, and convergence on shallow structure and geomorphology of the Hosgri strike-slip fault, offshore Central California: Geosphere, v. McCulloch, D.S., 1987, Regional geology and hydrocarbon potential of offshore central California, in Scholl, D.W., Grantz, A., and Vedder, J.G., eds., Geology and Resource Potential of the Continental Margin of Western North America and Adjacent Oceans -- Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 6., p. 353-401. Ryan, H.F., Parsons, T., and Sliter, R.W., 2008. Vertical tectonic deformation associated with the San Andreas fault zone offshore of San Francisco, California: Tectonphysics, v. 429, p. 209-224. Weber, G.E., and LaJoie, K.R., 1980, Map of Quaternary faulting along the San Gregorio fault zone, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, California: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-907. Wagner, D.L., Greene, H.G., Saucedo, G.J., and Pridmore, C.L., 2002, Geologic Map of the Monterey 30' x 60' quadrangle and adjacent areas, California: California Geological Survey Regional Geologic Map Series, scale 1:100,000.

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Mineral Land Classification (MLC) studies are produced by the State Geologist as specified by the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA, PRC 2710 et seq.) of 1975. To address mineral resource conservation, SMARA mandated a two-phase process called classification-designation. Classification is carried out by the State Geologist and designation is a function of the State Mining and Geology Board. The classification studies contained here evaluate the mineral resources and present this information in the form of Mineral Resource Zones.

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