Doe; Trio Prospect, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Doe; Trio Prospect	Prospect
Ketchikan Gateway Borough	Borough
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Early reports also refer to this property as the Trio claim (Brooks, 1902; Cobb and Elliott, 1980, p. 35).
Location: The Doe prospect is at an elevation of about 500 feet in, or adjacent to, the valley of an unnamed creek that follows the northwest flank of Punch Hill. The site is in section 17, T. 77 S., R. 91 E., of the Copper River Meridian. It corresponds to loc. 110 in Elliott and others (1978). The location is accurate within about 0.1 mile. Also see Additional comments.
Geology: Southern Gravina Island is underlain by an assemblage of undivided Silurian or Ordovician metamorphosed bedded and intrusive rocks; a stock and associated dikes of Silurian trondhjemite that cuts the metamorphic assemblage; and a sequence of Upper Triassic carbonate, clastic, rhyolitic, and basaltic strata that unconformably overlies the older rocks (Berg, 1973, 1982; Berg and others, 1988). The rocks are complexly folded and are cut by high-angle faults and by low-angle thrust faults. In many places, the Triassic rhyolite and the rocks beneath it are permeated by microscopic particles of hydrothermal hematite, giving them a pink, purple, or red hue (Berg, 1973, p. 14). Wright and Wright (1908, p. 140) describe the Doe deposit only as a quartz vein 3-6 feet wide in siliceous chlorite schist. The vein strikes N20E and contains pyrite and chalcopyrite. Maas and others' (1995, p. 227) description of the mineral deposits in the Seal Cove area probably applies in general to the Doe prospect. They report that chalcopyrite occurs as vein fillings, disseminations, and in fault breccias west and northwest of Seal Cove. The mineralized breccias have a siliceous matrix. Small quartz-barite veins with galena and sphalerite have been found west of Seal Cove, and on the northeast slopes of Punch Hill. The rocks at or near the Doe prospect are cut by high-angle faults that strike north-northeast and northwest (Maas and others, (1995, fig 58). Maas and others (1995, p. 227) report that copper mineralization on southern Gravina Island generally is associated with faulting. The deposits are mainly in meta-andesite (greenschist) and trondhjemite, but also in the overlying Triassic strata. The deposits are chiefly chalcopyrite- and pyrite-bearing quartz fissure veins, but the sulfide minerals also occur as disseminations in the metavolcanic rocks, in silicified zones in the trondhjemite, and as clasts or pods in silicified or carbonatized breccia. The character and setting of the deposits suggest that they mainly are polymetallic veins of Late Triassic or younger age.
Age: Late Triassic or younger.
Alteration: Probably local silicification, carbonatization, pyritization, and introduction of hydrothermal hematite.

Commodities (Major) - Cu
Development Status: Undetermined.
Deposit Model: Polymetallic veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)

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