Dolan Prospect, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Dolan Prospect	Prospect
Juneau Mining District	Mining District
Juneau	City Borough
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: The Dolan prospect is at an elevation of approximately 1,000 feet on the northwest side of Sheep Creek. It is 3/4 mile north of Gastineau Channel and 1 mile south of Roberts Peak, in the SW1/4NE1/4 section 32, T. 41 S., R. 68 E. of the Copper River Meridian. The location is accurate.
Geology: The Dolan prospect was discovered in 1897 and has 4 adits and 175 feet of workings (Redman and others, 1989). The deposit consists of thin, discontinuous, calcite-quartz veins that cut massive to foliated greenstone. The veins contain pyrite, magnetite, and epidote. U.S. Bureau of Mines samples did not contain significant metal values (Redman and others, 1989). This prospect is in the Juneau Gold Belt, which consists of more than 200 gold-quartz-vein deposits that have produced nearly 7 million ounces of gold. These gold-bearing mesothermal quartz vein systems form a zone 160 km long by 5 to 8 km wide along the western margin of the Coast Mountains. The vein systems are in or near shear zones adjacent to west-verging, mid-Cretaceous thrust faults. The veins are hosted by diverse, variably metamorphosed, sedimentary, volcanic, and intrusive rocks. From the Coast Mountains batholith westward, the host rocks include mixed metasedimentary and metavolcanic sequences of Carboniferous and older, Permian and Triassic, and Jurassic-Cretaceous age. The sequences are juxtaposed along mid-Cretaceous thrust faults (Miller and others, 1994). The sequences are intruded by mid-Cretaceous to middle Eocene plutons, mainly diorite, tonalite, granodiorite, quartz monzonite, and granite. Sheetlike tonalite plutons emplaced just east of the Juneau Gold Belt and undeformed granite and granodiorite bodies that are emplaced farther to the east are between 55 and 48 Ma (Gehrels and others, 1991). The structural grain of the belt is defined by northwest-striking, moderately to steeply northeast-dipping, penetrative foliation that developed between Cretaceous and Eocene time (Miller and others, 1994). The majority of the veins in the Juneau Gold Belt strike northwest. Isotopic dates indicate that the auriferous veins in the Juneau Gold Belt formed between 56 and 55 Ma (Miller and others, 1994; Goldfarb and others, 1997).
Workings: The deposit at the Dolan prospect was discovered in 1897 and has 4 adits and 175 feet of workings (Redman and others, 1989).
Age: Isotopic dates indicate that the auriferous veins in the Juneau Gold Belt formed between 56 and 55 Ma (Miller and others, 1994; Goldfarb and others, 1997).

Commodities (Major) - Au ?
Development Status: None

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