Latitude: 55°8'43"N
Longitude: 132°28'51"W
Location: The Marion prospect is at an elevation of about 110 feet, about 0.8 mile west of the mouth of the stream at the head of Nutkwa Lagoon. It is about 0.4 mile southeast of the center of section 32, T. 77 S., R. 86 E.
Geology: By 1916, the Marion prospect had been explored by a 400-foot adit with a 50-foot winze about 190 feet from the portal (Chapin, 1916). Roehm (1939 [PE 119-18] ) called it the Jack Wilcox prospect, and it was restaked in 1944 (Twenhofel and others, 1949). Wolff and Heiner (1971) indicate that the property has produced about 50 ounces of gold, 3 ounces of silver, and 36 pounds of lead. The rocks in the vicinity are greenschist of the Wales Group of Late Proterozoic and Cambrian age. The adit follows a calcite-bearing quartz vein up to 6 feet thick that is along a shear zone that strikes N20-30W and dips 80W (Herreid and others, 1978). The vein contains small amounts of arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, and sphalerite. Roehm (1939 [PE 119-18]) collected 21 samples across the mineralized zone that averaged 0.06 ounce of gold per ton, and 0.66 ounce of silver per ton; the highest value was 0.66 ounce of gold per ton. As described by Roehm, the mineralized zone is 3 to 12 feet wide and extends for 3,000 feet to an elevation of about 1,000 feet. Maas and others (1991) could not locate the workings under a landslide and recent logging. However, they identified several thin, mineralized fault zones on the surface nearby. A sample from a 4-inch quartz vein in the footwall of a 11-foot-wide fault zone contained 3,828 parts per million (ppm) gold, 12.6 ppm silver, and 5,590 ppm zinc.
Workings: By 1916, the Marion prospect had been explored by a 400-foot adit with a 50-foot winze about 190 feet from the portal (Chapin, 1916). Roehm (1939 [PE 119-18] ) called it the Jack Wilcox prospect, and it was restaked in 1944 (Twenhofel and others, 1949).
Alteration: None specifically noted, but the mineralized quartz vein occurs along a shear zone.
Commodities (Major) - Ag, Au, Cu, Zn
Development Status: Yes
Deposit Model: Sulfide-bearing gold-quartz vein (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a).
References
Chapin, Theodore, 1916, Mining developments in southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 642-B, p. 73-104. Cobb, E. H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Craig quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-869, 262 p. Herreid, Gordon, Bundtzen, T.K., and Turner, D.L., 1978, Geology and geochemistry of the Craig A-2 quadrangle, Prince of Wales Island, southeastern Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 48, 49 p. Maas, K.M., Bittenbender, P E., and Still, J.C., 1995, Mineral investigations in the Ketchikan mining district, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 11-95, 606 p. Maas, K.M., Still, J. C., Clough, A. H., and Oliver, L. K., 1991, Mineral investigations in the Ketchikan mining district, Alaska, 1990: Southern Prince of Wales Island and vicinity--Preliminary sample location maps and descriptions: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 33-91, 139 p. Roehm, J.C., 1939, Preliminary report of Jack Wilcox gold property, Nutkwa Bay, Prince of Wales Island: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Property Examination 119-18, 4 p. Smith, P.S., 1933, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1930: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 836-A, p. 1-83. Smith, P.S., 1933, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1931: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 844-A, p. 1-81. Twenhofel, W.S., Reed, J. C., and Gates, G.O., 1949, Some mineral investigations in southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 963-A, p. 1-45. Wolff, E.N., and Heiner, L.E., 1971, Mineral resources of southeastern Alaska: University of Alaska, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory Report 28, 334 p.
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