Great Eastern Prospect, Juneau District, Juneau Borough, Alaska, USA
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Geology: The Great Eastern prospect was discovered in 1888 when a portion of surface was ground-sluiced for gold. There is a 200-foot adit and a short shaft on the prospect. The deposit consists of black phyllite that has been intruded by a swarm of hydrothermally altered diorite sills (Redman and others, 1989). The sills vary from a few inches up to 20 feet thick. Alteration has destroyed most of the mafic minerals. The sills contain up to 3 percent disseminated pyrite. U.S. Bureau of Mines samples contained no significant gold values; they did, however, contain up to 164 ppm molybdenum (Redman and others, 1989). The rocks in the general area are Upper Jurassic or Cretaceous marine argillite and graywacke, interbedded with andesite or basalt (Brew and Ford, 1985). The bedded rocks are regionally metamorphosed to prehnite-pumpellyite or greenschist grade, and cut by diorite or gabbro dikes and sills.
Workings: The deposit at the Great Eastern prospect was discovered in 1888 when a portion of surface was ground-sluiced for gold. There is a 200-foot adit and a short shaft on the prospect.
Alteration: The diorite sills are hydrothermally altered. The alteration has destroyed most of the mafic minerals.
Production: The surface in the vicinity was ground sluiced for gold in 1888 but there is no record of the production.
Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - Mo
Development Status: None
Mineral List
1 entry listed. 1 valid mineral.
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References
Brew, D.A., and Ford, A.B., 1985, Preliminary reconnaissance geologic map of the Juneau, Taku River, Atlin, and part of the Skagway 1:250,000 quadrangles, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-395, 23 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000. Gehrels, G.E., McClelland, W.C., Samson, S.D., and Patchett, P.J., 1991, U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircons from a continental margin assemblage in the northern Coast Mountains, southeastern Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 28, no. 8, p.1285-1300. Goldfarb, R.J., Miller, L.D., Leach, D.L., and Snee, L.W, 1997, Gold deposits in metamorphic rocks in Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 151-190. Miller, L.D., Goldfarb, R.J., Gehrels, G,E., and Snee, L.W., 1994, Genetic links among fluid cycling, vein formation, regional deformation, and plutonism in the Juneau gold belt, southeastern Alaska: Geology, v. 22, p. 203-206. Redman, E.C., Maas, K.M., Kurtak, J.M., and Miller, L.D., 1989, Bureau of Mines Mineral Investigations in the Juneau Mining District, Alaska, 1984-1988, Volume 2--Detailed mine, prospect, and mineral occurrence descriptions, Section D, Juneau Gold Belt Subarea: U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication, 424 p.