El Paso Prospect, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USAi

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

Location: This prospect is on the south flank of Kluchman Mountain near the Taku River. It is near the center of the S1/2 section 28, T.38 S., R.71 E. of the Copper River Meridian. The prospect was originally described in MAS/MILS record 0021130008; it is also listed as Alaska Kardex file number 113-011. This is location T004 of Wells and others (1986). The location is accurate within 1 mile.
Geology: The El Paso prospect is in the Coast Range plutonic-metamorphic complex which consists of high-grade schist and gneiss intruded by Cretaceous and Tertiary granodiorite (Brew and Ford, 1984). Brew and Ford (1974) indicate that rocks at the prospect are shallow, tonalitic to granitic plutons that intrude and contact metamorphose high-grade, regionally metamorphosed, rocks derived from volcanic, pelitic and minor carbonate strata of unknown protolith age. Roof pendants of the metamorphic rocks are common, as are mafic and aplite dikes (Miller and others, 1997). Wells, and others, 1986, report this as a Ni-Cu prospect. No other information is available. Claims were active from 1970 to 1976 (Wells and others, 1986).
Workings: Claims were active in 1970-1976 (Wells and others, 1986).

Commodities (Major) - Cu, Ni
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Possible synorogenic-synvolcanic Ni-Cu (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 7a)

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	TR005

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