Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: David Boleneus Publication_Date: 1999 Title: Geologic datasets for weights of evidence analysis in northeast Washington--3. Minerals-related permits on national forests, 1967 to 1998 Edition: version 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Excel 97 spreadsheet Series_Information: Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report Issue_Identification: OF99-414 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Spokane WA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: URL = http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-414/ Description: Abstract: Permits to explore for and (or) develop mineral resources on Federal lands can be used to indicate locations and types of mineral-related activities on national forests. Permits for these activities require filing of a Notice of Intent to conduct mineral exploration activities and (or) a Plan of Operation, if significant land disturbance results. This compilation of notices and plans for the Colville, Kaniksu, Okanogan, and Wenatchee national forests between 1967 and 1998 is intended for use in combination with geologic and economic information to predict future mineral-related activities in the region. Purpose: This dataset was developed to provide mineral resource data for the region of northeast WA for use in future spatial analysis by a variety of users. This database is not meant to be used or displayed at any scale larger than 1:24,000. Supplemental_Information: This dataset consists of one Excel 97 spreadsheet file (of99-414.xls) which contains information about permits on national forest lands in northeast Washington State. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1998 Currentness_Reference: Date that data were collected and compiled. Status: Progress: complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: No updates are planned at this time. Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -121.25 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -117.0 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.0 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 47.25 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Theme_Keyword: mineral resource Theme_Keyword: lead Theme_Keyword: zinc Theme_Keyword: gold Theme_Keyword: silver Theme_Keyword: plan of operation Theme_Keyword: placer gold Theme_Keyword: mines Theme_Keyword: notice of intent Theme_Keyword: forest service Theme_Keyword: metallic Theme_Keyword: non-metallic Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Place_Keyword: Washington Place_Keyword: northeast Washington Place_Keyword: Ferry County Place_Keyword: Okanogan County Place_Keyword: Pend Oreille County Place_Keyword: Stevens County Place_Keyword: Colville National Forest Place_Keyword: Okanogan National Forest Place_Keyword: Sandpoint Place_Keyword: Okanogan Place_Keyword: Pacific Northwest Place_Keyword: USA Place_Keyword: Kaniksu National Forest Place_Keyword: Wenatchee National Forest Place_Keyword: Chelan County Place_Keyword: Kittitas County Place_Keyword: Yakima County Place_Keyword: Whatcom County Access_Constraints: none Use_Constraints: This digital database is not meant to be used or displayed at any scale larger than 1:24,000. The user may need to contact the local Forest Service office for updates on Plans of Operation or Notices of Intention. Any hardcopies utilizing these data sets shall clearly indicate their source. If the user has modified the data in any way they are obligated to describe the types of modifications they have performed on the hardcopy map. User specifically agrees not to misrepresent these data sets, nor to imply that changes they made were approved by the U.S. Geological Survey. These data are not meant to be displayed at any scale larger than 1:24,000 (e.g., 1:12,000 or 1:2,000). Data_Set_Credit: David Boleneus compiled the data in digital form from U.S. Forest Service files. Compilation included removal of duplicate records and verifying latitude-longitude location. Points of latitude-longitude are located to the center of the nearest section and were calculated from Township-Range-Section data using the freeware script "trs2ll" (M. Wefald, written commun.). Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David E. Boleneus Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 904 W. Riverside Ave., Rm. 202 City: Spokane State_or_Province: WA Postal_Code: 99201 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-509-368-3100 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 1-509-368-3199 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dboleneu@usgs.gov Native_Data_Set_Environment: MS Excel 97 for Win95 Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Attribute accuracy was verified by manual comparison of location of Plan of Operation or Notice of Intent obtained from US Forest Service files, where possible. Attribute accuracy was not verified on the the ground. Logical_Consistency_Report: Point data is given in latitude and longitude (decimal degrees). Completeness_Report: This digital dataset was produced from unpublished U.S. Forest Service files and is considered to be a unique mineral resource dataset for the area. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: The horizontal positional accuracy for the digital data was checked against the original file data. Latitude-longitude points were calculated from Township-Range-Section given in U.S. Forest Service files. The accuracy of the file data was accepted and were not checked on the ground. Points of latitude-longitude are located to the center of the nearest sectoin and were calculated from Township-Range-Section data using the freeware script "trs2ll" (M. Wefald, written commun.). The area of each permit may occupy a larger area than depicted by the point location represented by the latitude and longitude location. The point location occurs somewhere within the boundaries of the larger area represented by the entire permit area boundary. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: USFS Publication_Date: unpublished Title: unpublished data from U.S. Forest Service files Type_of_Source_Media: paper files consisting of text dating to as old as 1967. Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1998 Source_Currentness_Reference: Date information was extracted from Forest Service files in Colville, Kaniksu, Okanogan, and Wenatchee national forests for this report. Source_Citation_Abbreviation: U.S. Forest Service, unpublished data Source_Contribution: U.S. Forest Service contributed files compiled by various district employees responsible for minerals activity on forest lands. These files were the sole source of data in Open-File Report 99-414. Process_Step: Process_Description: Data were collected from USFS files and allocated to various fields (categories) in an Excel 97 spreadsheet. Categories of data are given in the description of Table 1 in Open-File Report 99-414 (Boleneus, 1999) at http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-414/ . Process_Date: January 1998 to December 1998 Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 366 points Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 1 Longitude_Resolution: 1 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: The data set for "Geologic datasets for weights of evidence analysis in northeast Washington--3. Minerals-related permits on national forests, 1967 to 1998" consists of one Excel 97 workbook, "of99-414.xls", which is displayed as Table 1 in the OFR text. Definitions of fields in the "of99-414.xls" sheet in the workbook are given below: Permit number--Plan or notice number (as designated by this report) Type--Plan or Notice Forest--Name of forest containing plan or notice Company--Name of applicant or company conducting the work Primary commodity--Primary commodity (e.g. Au, Ag, Pb...) All commodities--All commodities given as object of plan or notice Latitude--Latitude of point at center of nearest section Longitude--Longitude of point at center of nearest section Purpose--Purpose of plan or notice assigned by applicant Project--Project name assigned by applicant Start year--First year permit was issued End year--Last year permit was issued District--Forest district where permit is located Local no.--Tracking number used by U.S. Forest Service Region--U.S. Forest Service region number State--State Township--Township number (N) in Washington (Willamette meridian) Range--Range number (E) in Washington (Willamette meridian) Assumed section--Section arbitrarily decided as centroid from which the latitude and longitude were calculated using the freeware script, "trs2ll" (M.Wefald, written commun.) All Sections--Sections within the township-range containing plan or notice Subdivision--Subdivision of section, when available Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: See Open-File Report 99-414, available on-line at http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-414/ Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Information Services Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: Open-File Reports, Box 25286 City: Denver State_or_Province: CO Postal_Code: 80225 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-303-202-4200 Distribution_Liability: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides these geographic data "as is." The USGS makes no guarantee or warranty concerning the accuracy of information contained in the geographic data. The USGS further makes no warranties, either expressed or implied as to any other matter whatsoever, including, without limitation, the condition of the product, or its fitness for any particular purpose. The burden for determining fitness for use lies entirely with the user. Although these data have been processed successfully on computers at the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS regarding the use of these data on any other system, nor does the fact of distribution constitute or imply any such warranty. In no event shall the USGS have any liability whatsoever for payment of any consequential, incidental, indirect, special, or tort damages of any kind, including, but not limited to, any loss of profits arising out of use of or reliance on the geographic data or arising out of the delivery, installation, operation, or support by USGS. These data are not meant to be displayed at any scale larger than 1:24,000 (e.g., 1:12,000 or 1:2,000), Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 19991116 Metadata_Review_Date: Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: David E. Boleneus Contact_Position: geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 904 West Riverside Avenue, Rm. 202 City: Spokane State_or_Province: WA Postal_Code: 99201 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-509-368-3100 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 1-509-368-3199 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dboleneu@usgs.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998