Some early reports apparently refer to this property as the Golden Dream claim, or Mountain claim (Cobb and Elliott, 1980, p. 145).
Location: The Goo Goo claim is in section 18, T. 75 S., R. 94 E., of the Copper River Meridian. It adjoins the Goo Goo Extension (KC097) claim on the northeast. It is at an elevation of approximately 150-200 feet north of, and roughly parallel to, Gokachin Creek. The main workings are about 0.3-0.4 mile inland from the shore of Thorne Arm, and the map coordinates are for the approximate center of the claim. The site corresponds to loc. 93 in Elliott and others (1978), and to loc. 302 (1-6) in Maas and others (1995). The location is accurate within 0.1 mile. Also see Additional comments.
Geology: The Goo Goo Mine and Goo Goo Extension (KC097) combined soon after their discovery and they share a common history. In addition, in the 1930's, both of them were sometimes linked with the Sea Level Mine (KC095).. Roppel (2005) provides extensive details of the complex history of these properties. The Goo Goo vein was located in 1904 and the Goo Goo Extension in 1907, and they soon were developed by a 20-foot shaft and 15-foot tunnel. Brooks (1902, p. 67) reported gold values up to $4.00 in gold per ton (at $20.67 per ounce).. About $1000 in gold (at $20.67 per ounce) was produced in 1907 from rich hand-picked samples processed with a mortar and pestle. Work continued through the 1920's and increased markedly in the 1930's with some underground exploration and considerable legal and other activity by the numerous people involved or investing in the property. Perhaps the most notable mining in the later history of the mining was the recovery in 1933 of $40,000 in gold (at $35 per ounce?) by a leaser from a rich pocket. The workings, dating back to the early 1900's, include 2 adits, one 1,800 feet long and one caved, a shaft, and several surface trenches and pits. The rocks in the area of the Sea Level Mine are mainly phyllite and semischist derived from pelitic sedimentary rocks and andesitic or basaltic volcanic rocks, intruded by Cretaceous granodiorite (Berg and others, 1988). The premetamorphic age of the strata is speculative. On the basis of various criteria, the rocks have been interpreted as Mesozoic or late Paleozoic (Berg and others, 1988) and Permo-Triassic or Jurassic-Cretaceous (Crawford and others, 2000). The bedded rocks and some of the granodiorite were regionally metamorphosed to greenschist grade in Late Cretaceous time and subsequently remetamorphosed to hornblende hornfels near contacts of Cretaceous granodiorite plutons emplaced after the regional metamorphism. The metamorphic and intrusive rocks are overlain by Quaternary or Tertiary andesite and basalt. According to Wright and Wright (1908, p. 147), the Goo Goo deposit is a quartz fissure vein that contains pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and free gold. The vein reportedly included pockets of ore containing considerable free gold. The Wrights do not describe the country rocks or the geologic setting of the vein. Maas and others (1995, p. 216) provide the following combined description of an auriferous quartz fissure vein more than 4900 feet long on the Goo Goo claim and its continuation southwestward onto the adjoining Goo Goo Extension claim (KC097). The vein, which strikes NE and dips steeply SE, is in mafic metavolcanic rocks and contains, in addition to free gold, pyrite, sphalerite, and galena. Hydrothermally altered metavolcanic rock adjacent to the vein contains disseminated pyrite and accompanying gold values (see Alteration). The best results of sampling in 1946 (Maas and others, 1995, p. 217) included: 5.8 parts per million (ppm) gold in a section of vein 7.5 feet thick and 79 feet long; and 7.1 ppm gold in a section of vein 4.6 feet thick and 25 feet long. Thirty-one samples of the vein collected by Maas and others (1995) contained an average of 1.1 ppm gold. Maas and others' (1995) description of the Goo Goo and Goo Goo Extension vein indicates that its character and setting are virtually identical to the main vein on the Sea Level claim (KC095). Combined recorded production from the claims, probably much in the early 1900s, was 1.4 kg of gold. Notably, however, $40,000 in gold (at $35 per ounce?) was produced by a leaser in 1935 from a rich pocket (Roppel, 2005).
Workings: The Goo Goo Mine and Goo Goo Extension (KC097) combined soon after their discovery and they share a common history. In addition, in the 1930's, both of them were sometimes linked with the Sea Level Mine (KC095).. Roppel (2005) provides extensive details of the complex history of these properties. The Goo Goo vein was located in 1904 and the Goo Goo Extension in 1907, and they soon were developed by a 20-foot shaft and 15-foot tunnel. Brooks (1902, p. 67) reported gold values up to $4.00 in gold per ton (at $20.67 per ounce).. About $1000 in gold (at $20.67 per ounce) was produced in 1907 from rich hand-picked samples processed with a mortar and pestle. Work continued through the 1920's and increased markedly in the 1930's with some underground exploration and considerable legal and other activity by the numerous people involved or investing in the property. Perhaps the most notable mining in the later history of the mining was the recovery in 1933 of $40,000 in gold (at $35 per ounce?) by a leaser from a rich pocket. The workings, dating back to the early 1900's, include 2 adits, one 1,800 feet long and one caved, a shaft, and several surface trenches and pits.
Age: Maas and others (1995, p. 215) note that the quartz in the veins in the Sea Level mine area is not recrystallized; the veins thus are probably younger than most or all of the Late Cretaceous regional metamorphism.
Alteration: The Goo Goo vein, like most of the other principal veins in the Sea Level mine area, is bordered by a hydrothermally altered zone up to three feet thick, characterized by generally fine-grain, light-gray to bluish-gray, massive, carbonate- and sericite-bearing rock that commonly contains cubic pyrite crystals up to an inch across (Maas and others, 1995, p. 215). Maas and others (1995) interpret this zone as hydrothermally altered mafic metavolcanic rock. Early miners called this altered rock 'blue porphyry,' which they interpreted as crosscutting altered dikes that predate the quartz veins, but are closely associated with some of the orebodies (Brooks, 1902, p. 65; Wright and Wright, 1908, p. 143). Gold content of these pyritic altered zones is high adjacent to the quartz veins and diminishes away from them. Weathered altered rocks have a reddish-brown, oxidized rind up to three inches thick.
Production: Combined recorded production from the Goo Goo and Goo Goo Extension claims, probably most in the early 1900s, was 1.4 kg of gold (Maas and others, 1995, p. 218). Notably, however, $40,000 in gold (at $35 per ounce?) was produced by a leaser in 1935 from a rich pocket (Roppel, 2005).

Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - Pb, Zn
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a).

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5 valid minerals.