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Assessment Techniques for Concealed Mineral Resources project publications (as of May, 2009)

Primary Features of Mineral Systems

General

• Kelley, D.L., and Kelley, K.D., 2006, Beyond the obvious limits of ore deposits: The use of mineralogical, geochemical, and biological features for the remote detection of mineralization: Economic Geology, v. 101, p. 729-750.
• Kelley, Karen D., and Kelley, David L., 2007, Future directions in exploration geochemistry research: pursuit of the far-field features of mineral deposits, in Andrew, Colin J., ed., Proceedings of the ninth biennial meeting of the SGA, Dublin, Ireland 20th-23rd August, 2007, p. 63-66.
  

Sediment-hosted base metal deposits in the Northern Cordillera

• Kelley, K.D., Ayuso, R.A., Burruss, R.C., Dumoulin, J.A., Graham, G.E., Harris, A.G., Johnson, C.A., Leach, D.L., Lillis, P.G., Marsh, E.E., Moore, T.E., Potter, C.J., and Slack, J.F., 2007, Regional fluid flow and basin modeling in northern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1319, 45 p.
• Graham, G.E., Kelley, K.D., Slack, J.F., and Koenig, A.E., 2009, Trace elements in Zn-Pb-Ag deposits and related stream sediments, Brooks Range Alaska, with implications for Tl as a pathfinder element: Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, v. 9, p. 19-38.
• Schardt, C., Garven, G., Kelley, K.D., and Leach, D.L., 2008, Reactive flow models of the Anarraaq Zn-Pb-Ag deposit, Red Dog district, Alaska: Mineralium Deposita, v. 43, p. 735-758.

Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposits in southwest Alaska (Pebble)

• Giles, Stuart A., 2008, A 3-Dimensional Visualization Technique for Exploring Multivariate Geochemical Data, in Helterbrand, W.S., and Sieverling, J.B., eds., 2008, Proceedings of the U.S. Geological Survey Seventh Biennial Geographic Information Science Workshop, Denver, Colorado, May 12–16, 2008, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008–5074, 66 p.
• Kelley, K.D., Bedrosian, P., Eppinger, R.G., Fey, D.L., Minsley, B., Saltus, R.W., Shah, A., and Smith, S.M. 2008, USGS Studies at the Pebble porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Alaska: Implications for assessments of concealed mineral resources: Alaska Miners Association abstract, Nov. 5-7, 2008.
• Fey, D., Granitto, M., Giles, S.A., Smith, S.M., Eppinger R.G., and Kelley, K.D., 2008, Geochemical data for samples collected in 2007 near the concealed Pebble porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit, southwest Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1132, 2008, 154 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/
  

Basin and Range, major metal deposit types

• Aleinikoff, J.N., Evans, K.V., Hayes, T.S., and Lowers, H.A., and Fanning, C.M., 2007, Age and geochemistry of multiple generations of xenotime overgrowths from the Belt Supergroup: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 275.
• Graybeal, F.T., et al., 2007, Porphyry copper systems of southern Arizona: Arizona Geological Society Ores and Orogenesis Symposium Field Trip No. 8. Arizona Geological Society.

Primary Contact: Peter Vikre: USGS, Reno: pvikre@usgs.gov, 775-784-5597

Upper midwest base metal deposits

• Cannon, W.F., and Addison, W.A., 2007, Distal ejecta from the 1850 Ma Sudbury impact in the Lake Superior iron ranges [abstract]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v 39, p. 220.
• Cannon, W.F., and Addison, W.A., 2007, The Sudbury impact layer in the Lake Superior iron ranges: a time-line from the heavens [abstract]: Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Proceedings volume 53, Part 1: Program and Abstracts, p. 20-21.
• Cannon, W.F., Anderson, R.R., Boerboom, T.J., Chandler, Val, Holm, D.K., Jirsa, M., Miller, J., Schneider, D.A., Schulz, K.J., and Van Schmus, W.R., 2007, Growth and evolution of Archean and Proterozoic lithosphere in middle Laurentia [abstract]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 614.
• Cannon, W.F., and Schulz, K.J., 2008, Archean-Paleoproterozoic unconformity at Silver Lake—Seismites from the Sudbury impact?: Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Proceedings volume 54, Part 2: Field Trip Guidebook, p. 45-63.
• Cannon, W.F., and Schulz, K.J., 2008, Unusual features along the Archean/Paleoproterozoic unconformity at Silver Lake, Michigan—seismites from the Sudbury impact [abstract]: Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Proceedings volume 54, Part 1: Program and Abstracts, p. 10-11.
• Holm, D.K., Anderson, R., Boerboom, T.J., Cannon, W.F., Chandler, V., Jirsa, M., Miller, J., Schneider, D.A., Schulz, K.J., and Van Schmus, W.R., 2007, Reinterpretation of Paleoproterozoic accretionary boundaries of the north-central United States based on a new aeromagnetic-geologic compilation: Precambrian Research, v. 157, p. 71-79, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2007.02.023
• Schulz, K.J., and Cannon, W.F., 2007, The Penokean orogeny in the Lake Superior region: Precambrian Research, v. 157, p. 4-25.
• Schulz, K.J., and Cannon, W.F., 2008, Geochemistry of the Sudbury impact layer, northern Michigan: Implications for the nature of the source materials [abstract]: Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Proceedings volume 54, Part 1: Program and Abstracts, p. 74-75.
• Schulz, K.J., and Cannon, W.F., 2008, Synchronous deposition of Paleoproterozoic Superior-type banded iron-formations and volcanogenic massive sulfides in the Lake Superior region: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Penokean orogen, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 387.
• Schulz, K.J., Nicholson, S.W., and Van Schmus, W.R., 2008, Penokean massive sulfide deposits: age, geochemistry, and paleotectonic setting [abstract]: Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Proceedings volume 55, Part 1: Program and Abstracts, p. 76-77.
• Slack, J.F., and Cannon, W.F., 2008, Shifts in global metallogeny at 1850 Ma: A connection to the giant Sudbury impact event [abstract]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6, p. 146.
• Vallini, D.A., Cannon, W.F., Schulz, K.J., and McNaughton, N.J., 2007, Thermal history of low metamorphic grade Paleoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the Penokean orogen, Lake Superior region: Evidence for a widespread 1786 Ma overprint based on xenotime geochronology: Precambrian Research, v. 157, p. 169-187, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2007.02.015.
  

Primary Contact: Klaus Schulz: USGS, Reston: kschulz@usgs.gov, 703-648-6320

Fortymile region, Alaska: base metal deposits

• Day, W.C., O’Neill, J.M., Aleinikoff, J.N., Green, G.N., Saltus, R.W., and Gough, L.P., 2007, Geologic map of the Big Delta B-1 quadrangle, east-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Series Map 2975, 23-page pamphlet, 1 plate, scale 1:63,360.
• Dusel-Bacon, C., Slack, J.F., Aleinikoff, J.N., and Mortensen, J.K., 2009, Mesozoic magmatism and base-metal mineralization in the Fortymile mining district, eastern Alaska: Initial results of petrographic, geochemical, and isotopic studies in the Mount Veta area, in Haeussler, P.J., and Galloway, J.P., eds., Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2007: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper -1760, http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1760/
• Dusel-Bacon, C., Slack, J.F., Mortensen, J.K., Aleinikoff, J.N., Day, W.C., O’Neill, M., Saltus, R.W., Hubbard, B.E., and Deszcz-Pan, M., 2008, Carbonate replacement and skarn mineralization in the Fortymile mining district, eastern Alaska: Initial results of petrologic, isotopic, structural, geophysical, and remote sensing investigations: Alaska Miners Association abstract, Nov. 5-7, 2008.
  

Primary Contact: Cynthia Dusel-Bacon: USGS, Menlo Park: cdusel@usgs.gov, 650-329-5719

Characteristics of post-mineralization cover

Cenozoic history of intermontane basins/adjacent highlands, Basin and Range region

• Bouligand C., J.M.G. Glen, and R. Blakely, Estimation of the depth to the Curie temperature isotherm using aeromagnetic data in the Great Basin, USGS Denver, USA, June 19, 2008.
• Colgan, J.P., John, D.A., Henry, C.D., and Fleck, R.J., 2008, Large-magnitude Miocene extension of the Eocene Caetano caldera, Shoshone and Toiyabe Ranges, Nevada: Geosphere, v. 4, no. 1, p. 107-130.
• Colgan, J.P., Shuster, D.L., and Reiners, P.W., 2008, Two-phase Neogene extension in the northwestern Basin and Range recorded in a single thermochronology sample: Geology, v. 36, no. 8, p. 631-634.
• Egger, A.E., Glen, J.M.G., Ponce, D.A.. Lerch, D., Klemperer, S.L., 2007, Combining geologic, potential-field, and seismic reflection modeling to study structural controls on the Surprise Valley fault system, northwestern margin of the Basin and Range, California (abs): Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 88, no. 52.
• Jarboe, N.A., Coe, R.S., Glen, J.M.G., and Renne, P.R., 2007, Establishing the Limits of Yellowstone Hotspot Volcanism at the Time of the Steens Mountain Reversal (abs): Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V23B-1438
• John, D.A., Henry, C.D., and Colgan, J.P., 2008, Magmatic and tectonic evolution of the Caetano caldera, north-central Nevada: A tilted, mid-Tertiary eruptive center and source of the Caetano Tuff: Geosphere, v. 4, no. 1, p. 75-106.
• Klemperer, S., Miller, E., Gashawbeza, E., Lerch, D., Colgan, J.P., and Glen, J., 2007, The northwestern boundary of the Basin and Range Province: Insights and surprises regarding its evolution based on Earthscope refraction, teleseismic, potential field and geologic data, GSA Abstracts with Programs, vol. 39, no. 6, paper 129030.
• Ponce, D., and Glen, J., 2008, A prominent geophysical feature along the northern Nevada rift and its geologic implications, north-central Nevada: Geosphere, v. 4, no. 1, p. 207–217.
• Rodriguez, B.D., Sampson, J.A., and Williams, J.M., 2007, Major crustal fault zone trends and their relation to mineral belts in the north-central Great Basin, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1115, 17 p.
• Rodriguez, B.D., and Williams, J.M., 2008, Tracking the Archean/Proterozoic suture zone in the northeastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah: Geosphere, v. 4, no. 2, p. 315–328.
• Wallace, A.R., Perkins, M.E., and Fleck, R.J., 2008, Late Cenozoic paleogeographic evolution of northeastern Nevada: Evidence from the sedimentary basins: Geosphere, v. 4, no. 1, p. 36-74.
• Wallace, A.R., Perkins, M.E., and Fleck, R.J., Geologic map of the Huntsman Ranch quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 163, scale 1:24,000; includes 36-ms-page text insert.
• Watt, J.T., Glen, J.M.G., John, D.A., and Ponce, D.A., 2007, Three-dimensional geologic model of the northern Nevada rift and the Beowawe geothermal system, north-central Nevada: Geosphere, v. 3, no. 6, p. 667-682.
• Watt, J.T., and Ponce, D.A., 2007, Geophysical framework investigations influencing ground-water resources in east-central Nevada and west-central Utah, with a section on Geologic and geophysical basin-by-basin descriptions by Wallace, A.R., Watt, J.T., and Ponce, D.A.: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1163, 40 p. 2 plates, scale 1:750,000.
  

Structural cover, northern Alaska

• Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Harris, A.G., Moore, T.E., Bleick, H.A., and Siwiec, B., 2008, Bedrock geologic map of the southern Brooks Range, Alaska, and accompanying conodont data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1149, scale 1:500:000, 2 sheets, 84p.
• Moore, T.E., Potter, C.J., O'Sullivan, P.B., and Aleinikoff, J.N., 2007, Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb analysis for suturing of pre-Mississippian terranes in Arctic Alaska [abs.]: Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract T13D-1570.
• Moore, T.E., Potter, C.J., O’Sullivan, P.B., and Aleinikoff, J.N., 2008, Detrital zircon data from northern Alaska: a summary of initial results [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 1, p. 77.
• Moore, T.E., Potter, C.J., and O’Sullivan, P.B., 2007, Detrital zircon U-Pb analysis of pre-Mississippian metasedimentary basement strata, North Slope, Alaska: evidence of a Caledonian connection [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 488.
• Moore, Thomas E., 2008, Birth, death, and resurrection of the Brooks Range, Alaska: structural architecture of a major North American fold-and-thrust belt [abs.]: Peninsula Geological Society, http://www.diggles.com/pgs/2008/PGS08-06.html
• Moore, Thomas E., and Bird, Kenneth J., 2008, Pre-Mississippian tectonostratigraphic framework of Arctic Alaska: implications for the opening of the Amerasia basin: 33rd International Geological Congress, Oslo Norway, http://www.33igc.org/coco/Handlers/COCO/Search.aspx?PageID=5002&time=3&date=0#
• Potter, C.J., Moore, T.E., and O’Sullivan, P.B., 2007, Structural style and tectonic context of basement-involved Tertiary foreland deformation in northeastern Alaska [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 52-53.
• Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Harris, A.G., Moore, T.E., and Bleick, H.A., 2007, Geologic synthesis of the metamorphic core of the Brooks Range orogen, Alaska [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 488.
• Dumoulin, J.A., and Harris, A.G., 2008, Depositional settings and age of Carboniferous rocks in the western Brooks Range, Alaska in Kelley, K.D., ed., Regional fluid flow and basin modeling in northern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1319, p. 28-31.
• Fuis, G.S., Moore, T.E., Plafker, G., Brocher, T.M., Fisher, M.A., Mooney, W.D., Nokleberg, W.J., Page, R.A., Beaudoin, B.C., Christensen, N.I., Levander, A.R., Lutter, W.J., Saltus, R. W., and Ruppert, N.A., 2008, Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect and continental evolution involving subduction underplating and synchronous foreland thrusting: Geology, v. 36, no. 3, p. 267-270.
• Moore, T.E., and Potter, C.J., 2008, Preliminary retrodeformable regional cross section, western Brooks Range, in Kelley, K.D., ed., Regional fluid flow and basin modeling in northern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1319, p. 28-31.
  

Primary Contact: Tom Moore: USGS, Menlo, tmoore@usgs.gov, 650-329-5713

Geophysical methods to identify concealed mineral resources

Evaluation of Geophysical Assessment Methods not currently in use by the USGS

• Bedrosian, P.A., 2008, A tale of two inversions - a comparison of 3D magnetotelluric inversion in a mineralized region, IAGA WG on Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth, abstract, October 23-29, 2008.
• Minsley, B., Eppinger, R.G., and Brown, P., 2008, Linking self-potential and geochemical signatures over a large porphyry mineral deposit: AGU meeting, abstract, Dec. 2008
• Saltus, R.W., Brown, P.J., Bedrosian, P., and Kelley, K.D., 2008, Regional geophysical setting of the Pebble deposit, southwest Alaska [abs]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 51.
  

Primary Contact: Paul Bedrosian: USGS, Denver: pbedrosian@usgs.gov, 303-236-4834

Textural analysis of geophysical data

• Gettings, Mark E., 2006, A Multifractal Model of Magnetic Susceptibility in Hydrothermally Altered Rocks, Eos Trans. AGU,87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract NG43B-1155.
• Gettings, Mark, 2007, Multifractal scaling analysis of magnetic surveys as a constraint on proposed tectonic sequences, XXIV Assembly International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, July 2-14, 2007, Perugia, Italy, Abstract
• Gettings, M.E., 2007, Mapping terranes beneath cover from aeromagnetic data, or what is this scaling stuff, anyway? One hour seminar presented to Earth Surface Processes Group, Menlo Park, USGS, 20 Sep 2007, USGS
• Gettings, M.E., 2007, Terrane definition from textural measures of aeromagnetic data, American Geophysical Union Report, Planned: Gettings, Mark, Techniques for the calculation of textural measures on gridded gravity and aeromagnetic data, USGS, Scientific Investigations Report.
• Bogue, S., Glen, J., Cromwell, G., Spahn, Z., 2008, Very Rapid Transitional Geomagnetic Change Recorded During Thermal Remagnetization of a Warm Lava Flow [abs.]: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 89, no. 53.
• Bouligand, C., J. Glen and R. Blakely, J. Dyment, Y. Gallet and G. Hulot, Exploitation des anomalies magnétiques d’origine crustale, Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France, 01/07/2009.
• Bouligand, C., J. Glen and R. Blakely, Mapping the depth-extent of crustal magnetic sources in the Great Basin, USA [abs.]: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 89, no. 53.
• Bouligand, C., J. Dyment, Y. Gallet, G. Hulot and E. Hoisé, Tracking the long-term evolution of geomagnetic secular variation from tiny wiggles in marine magnetic profiles [abs.]: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 89, no. 53.
• Ravat, D., T. Sabaka, A. Elshayat, A. Aref, E. Elawadi, R. Kucks, P. Hill, J. Phillips, C. Finn, C. Bouligand and R.J. Blakely, A Preliminary Full Spectrum Magnetic Anomaly Database of the United States With Improved Long Wavelengths for Studying Continental Dynamics [abs.]: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 89, no. 53.
• Ponce, D.A., Watt, J.T., Bouligand, C., 2008, Geophysical setting of the February 21, 2008 M6 Wells earthquake, Nevada, and implications on earthquake hazards [abs.]: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 89, no. 53.
• Stilson, T., P. Garcia del Real, C. Munoz, A.E. Egger, J.M. Glen, S. Aarons, N. Athens, C. Bouligand, J. Dudley, V. Fontiveros, E.C. Pope, S.N. Stafford, The Faults and Hot Springs of Surprise Valley: Perspectives from Detailed Gravity and Magnetic Data [abs.]: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 89, no. 53.
• Glen, J.M.G., Egger, A.E., and Ponce, D.A., 2008, Structural control of hot springs in a developing basin-and-range setting, Surprise Valley, California, northwestern Great Basin, transactions of the Geothermal Resources Council, 2008 Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, 8 p.
• Jarboe, N.A., Coe, R.S., Renne, P.R., Glen, J.M.G., and Mankinen, E.A., 2008, Quickly erupted volcanic sections of the Steens Basalt, Columbia River Basalt Group: Secular variation, tectonic rotation, and the Steens Mountain reversal, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, vol. 9. doi:10.1029/2008GC002067.
• Ponce, D.A., Watt, J.T., Casteel, J., and Logsdon, G., 2009, Physical-property measurements on core samples from drill-holes DB-1 and DB-2, Blue Mountain geothermal prospect, north-central Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1022, 18 p.
  

Primary Contact: Mark Gettings: USGS, Tucson: mgetting@usgs.gov, 520-670-5507

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