Location: The CP prospect is approximately 2 miles west of Lynn Canal and 4 miles west of Sullivan Island. It is at an elevation of about 1,700 feet, 1.5 miles north of the Sullivan River, in the SE1/4 section 8, T. 34 S., R. 60 E. of the Copper River Meridian. The Sullivan River is not named on the current (1996) edition of the D-5 topographic map. The location is accurate.
Geology: The CP prospect consists of four distinct layers of stratabound, disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite in a horizon approximately 125 feet thick. These layers occur in the lower part of a marble unit underlain by graphite schist. The sulfide-bearing layers are exposed along strike for up to 200 feet and and are one inch to 18 inches thick. The sulfide-bearing horizon contain up to 5.6% copper (Huber and Barnett, 1988), and occurs at approximately the same stratigraphic position as the exposure at the Stinging Cliffs prospect (JU016) (Bull, 1991). The sulfide disseminations are parallel to the foliation and the marble-schist contact, and are not associated with any fault. Samples collected in 1989 contained up to 10 ppm gold, 18.5 ppm silver, 6.66% lead, and 0.25% zinc (Bull and others, 1989). Although the stratabound, volcaniclastic-hosted, sulfides suggest a volcanogenic origin, Placer Dome U.S. geologists interpreted the deposit as a pre- or syn-metamorphic, hydrothermal-replacement deposit, possibly related to a pluton (Bull, 1991). This deposit is one of many in the Dream prospect area that includes numerous veins, stockworks, stratabound and stratiform sulfide deposits (also see JU002, JU006, JU009, JU011, JU013, JU014, JU016, JU019), most of which occur near a volcaniclastic-marble contact. The U.S. Bureau of Mines (Clough and Redman, 1989), International Curator Resources, Ltd. (Huber and Barnett, 1988), and Placer Dome U.S. (Bull and others, 1989) explored the area in the late 1980's and developed a general lithology of the area. They divide the rocks into four major rock units. From the base up, they are: 1) a volcaniclastic unit approximately 2000 feet thick that consists of albite-chlorite schist, chlorite schist, and chlorite-quartz-sericite schist that may in part be metaplutonic as well as metavolcanic; 2) a unit 800 feet thick of micaceous marble, pelitic schist, graphite schist, gray to white, cliff-forming marble, chlorite-amphibole schist, greenstone, and phyllitic graphite schist; and 3) a unit of very fine-grained chlorite-sericite-biotite schist over 1000 feet thick that includes metatuff and pelitic, mafic and graphitic schist. The upper contact of this unit is a thrust fault that trends N-S for several miles; quartz veining is common along the thrust contact. The rocks overlying the thrust are middle- to upper-greenschist-facies graphitic schist, argillite, phyllite, and marble. The metamorphic grade of the rocks varies from mid- to upper-greenschist facies in the south, to amphibolite facies in the north. There have been at least two stages of folding. The Dream prospect area was the site of extensive exploration and mapping from 1987 through 1990 by International Curator Resources Ltd. and Placer Dome U.S. The area was covered by 600 federal mining claims in 1989 and more than 5000 feet of drilling was completed by the end of 1990 (Swainbank and others, 1991). The general area consists predominantly of metamorphosed Silurian and Devonian clastic rocks, limestone, and volcanic units; Permian limestone and siltstone; and small plutons of Tertiary and Cretaceous granodiorite (Brew and Ford, 1985).
Workings: Three diamond drill holes were completed at the CP prospect by Placer Dome in 1990; they totaled 2,307 feet (Bull, 1991). The Dream prospect area was the site of extensive exploration and mapping from 1987 through 1990 by International Curator Resources Ltd. and Placer Dome U.S. The area was covered by 600 federal mining claims in 1989 and more than 5000 feet of drilling was completed by the end of 1990 (Swainbank and others, 1991).

Commodities (Major) - Ag, Au, Cu, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Possibly a metamorphosed Kuroko massive sulfide deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986;

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