GIS-based identification of areas that have resource potential for lode gold in Alaska
<p>Several comprehensive, data-driven geographic information system (GIS) analyses were conducted to assess prospectivity for lode gold in Alaska. These…
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OVERLAP AMOUNT High Medium Low EXPLANATION OF MAP SYMBOLS Fault Major gold-bearing deposits and occurrences ARCTIC OCEAN B E R I N G S E A G U L F O F A L A S K A Apollo Cliff Crow Creek Dolomi Donlin Creek Saddle Mountain Shotgun Terra Tetlin Treadwell Rock Creek Upper Chicken Creek Whistler Estelle Independence Golden Zone Golden Horn Puyallup-Dawson Hirst-Chichagof Pogo Pebble Nixon Fork Maid of Mexico Alaska-Juneau Lucky Shot Livengood Fort Knox Liberty Bell Kensington Mikado 120° 135° 135° 150° 150° 165° 165° 180° 66° 66° 62° 62° 58° 58° 54° 54° A L E U T I A N I S L A N D S 175° 175° 175° 175° 180° 180° 51° 53° 52° 52° 51° KoF KF TF DF ToF CSF FF ALASKA MAP LOCATION CANADA RUSSIA NORTH AMERICAN VERTICAL DATUM OF 1988 SCALE 1:10 500 000 500 Miles 500 Kilometers Alaska Albers Equal Area Conic projection North American Datum of 1983 —Kobuk Fault (KoF); Kaltag Fault (KF); Tintina Fault (TF); Togiak Fault (ToF); Farewell Fault (FF); Denali Fault (DF); Chatham Strait Fault (CSF) ISSN 2331-1258 (online) ://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211041 Any use of trade, product, or firm names in this publication is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government This map or plate is offered as an online-only, digital publication. Users should be aware that, because of differences in rendering processes and pixel resolution, some slight distortion of scale may occur when viewing it on a computer screen or when printing it on an electronic plotter, even when it is viewed or printed at its intended publication scale Manuscript approved for publication April 5, 2021 Digital files available at ://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211041 Suggested citation: Karl, S.M., Kreiner, D.C., Case, G.N.D., Labay, K.A., Shew, N.B., Granitto, M., Wang, B., and Anderson, E.D., 2021, Map showing overlap of gold-bearing porphyry-epithermal gold and reduced intrusion-related-orogenic gold deposit prospectivity maps, plate 9 in GIS-based identification of areas that have resource potential for lode gold in Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2021–1041, 75 p., 9 plates, ://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211041. Edited by Katherine Jacques and Mitchell Phillips; digital cartographic production by Joseph Mangano and Katie Sullivan Map Showing Overlap of Gold-Bearing Porphyry-Epithermal Gold and Reduced Intrusion-Related-Orogenic Gold Deposit Prospectivity Maps GIS-Based Identification of Areas that have Resource Potential for Lode Gold in Alaska By Susan M. Karl, Douglas C. Kreiner, George N.D. Case, Keith A. Labay, Nora B. Shew, Matthew Granitto, Bronwen Wang, and Eric D. Anderson U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2021–1041 Plate 9 of 9 Prepared in cooperation with the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys and the Bureau of Land Management