Uranium Data
Uranium Information System
The main focus of data is the Uranium Information System, which features search capabilities by map and keyword searches. Visit the Uranium Information System page to learn more about this application.
Uranium Geochemical Data
During the late 1970s and early 1980s the Department of Energy, with assistance from the national laboratories and the U.S. Geological Survey, conducted a uranium resource assessment of the U.S., including Alaska (the National Uranium Resource Evaluation or NURE program). As part of this assessment, a hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance (HSSR) survey was conducted of nearly the entire U.S. Although originally intended to assist uranium exploration and resource estimates, these data have had a wide variety of uses in exploring for other minerals and providing geochemical baseline information for environmental assessments. The U.S. Geological Survey became the archivist for this data under an agreement with the Department of Energy and has since placed a reformatted version of the entire dataset online. Information about this dataset and access to its components can be found at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1997/ofr-97-0492/ The water chemistry and stream sediment data can be accessed directly through the following webpages:
Geochemistry of water samples in the US from the NURE-HSSR database
Geochemistry of stream sediments in the US from the NURE-HSSR database
A great deal of additional mineral resource, geological, geochemical, and geophysical data about the U.S. can be found at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/.
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