Homestake Prospect, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USAi

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

Location: This prospect is at an elevation of approximately 1,700 feet on Douglas Island at the head of Nevada Creek. It is 0.75 mile southeast of McDonough Peak and 1 mile north of Stephens Passage, in the NE1/4NE1/4 section 19, T. 42 S., R. 68 E. of the Copper River Meridian. The location is accurate.
Geology: The Homestake prospect was discovered in the early 1904 and was developed by a 145-foot adit with a 34-foot drift, and an open cut (Redman and others, 1989). The prospect was explored by Hecla Mining Company in 1990 and 1991(Bundtzen and others, 1991; Swainbank and others, 1991). The deposit is in quartz-sericite phyllite interbedded with volcanic metaconglomerate. The phyllite is heavily iron-stained and contains 1 to 7 percent disseminated pyrite (Redman and others, 1989). The pyrite occurs both as cubes and as small, concordant lenses up to 0.1 inch long. Random clots with galena and sphalerite occur locally in the phyllite which is cut by a 6- to 14-inch thick quartz vein that can be traced for over 70 feet. The vein contains traces of galena and sphalerite. U.S. Bureau of Mines samples contained up to 0.8 ppm gold, 12.0 ppm silver, 735 ppm copper, 580 ppm lead, and 2,900 ppm zinc (Redman and others, 1989). The deposit is similar to the Alaska Treasure Mine (JU228), and the Yakima (JU207), Red Diamond (JU232), and Mammoth (JU229) prospects, which Newberry and others (1997) interpret as Cretaceous volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits. Southeastern Douglas Island is underlain mainly by Upper Jurassic to mid-Cretaceous marine argillite and graywacke, interbedded with basaltic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks (Brew and Ford, 1985). The rocks are regionally metamorphosed to prehnite-pumpellyite or greenschist grade.
Workings: The Homestake prospect was discovered in the early 1904 and was developed by a 145-foot adit with a 34-foot drift and an open cut (Redman and others, 1989). The prospect was explored by Hecla in 1990 and 1991(Bundtzen and others, 1991; Swainbank and others, 1991).
Age: Newberry and others (1997) have interpreted this deposit as a Cretaceous volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit.
Alteration: Sericite.

Commodities (Major) - Ag, Au, Cu, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Metamorphosed Kuroko massive sulfide deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 28a)

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	JU231

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