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  <dc:contributor>Keith A. Labay</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Katherine Jacques</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Claire Landowski</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Susan M. Karl</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2017</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Alaska consists of more than&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;663,000 square miles (1,717,000 square&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;kilometers) of land—more than a sixth of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the total area of the United States—and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;large tracts of it have not been system&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;atically studied or sampled for mineral-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;resource potential. Many regions of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the State are known to have significant&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;mineral-resource potential, and there&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;are currently six operating mines in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;State along with numerous active mineral&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;exploration projects. The U.S. Geologi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;cal Survey and the Alaska&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Division of Geological &amp;amp; Geophysical&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Surveys have developed a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;new geospatial tool that integrates and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;analyzes publicly available databases&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;of geologic information and estimates&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the mineral-resource potential for criti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;cal minerals, which was recently used&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;to evaluate Alaska. The results of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;analyses highlight areas that have known&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;mineral deposits and also reveal areas&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;that were not previously considered to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;be prospective for these deposit types.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;These results will inform land manage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;ment decisions by Federal, State, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;private landholders, and will also help&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;guide future exploration activities and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;scientific investigations in Alaska.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.3133/fs20173012</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Geospatial analysis identifies critical mineral-resource potential in Alaska</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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