Pansy Prospect, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USAi
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Pansy Prospect | Prospect |
Juneau Mining District | Mining District |
Juneau | City Borough |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
58° 17' 11'' North , 134° 25' 4'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Juneau | 32,756 (2017) | 1.7km |
Mindat Locality ID:
199308
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:199308:3
GUID (UUID V4):
f9d1f6b2-49ba-413c-8325-6fec7e3f8fee
Location: The Pansy prospect is at an elevation of about 250 feet on Douglas Island, 3/4 mile northwest of Douglas and 1/4 mile northwest of Lawson Creek. It is in the SE1/4NW1/4 section 26, T. 41 S., R. 67 E. of the Copper River Meridian. The location is accurate.
Geology: The Pansy prospect was discovered in 1889 and has a 35-foot adit. Several hundred tons of ore were mined but only a minor amount was shipped to the New Boston Mill for testing (Redman and others, 1989). After 1889, the prospect was abandoned. The prospect is currently covered by a housing development. The prospect is in black phyllite and greenstone (Redman and others, 1989). The rocks in the general area are Upper Jurassic or Cretaceous marine argillite and graywacke, interbedded with andesite or basalt (Brew and Ford, 1985). The bedded rocks are regionally metamorphosed to prehnite-pumpellyite or greenschist grade, and cut by diorite or gabbro dikes and sills. This prospect is in the Juneau Gold Belt, which consists of more than 200 gold-quartz-vein deposits that have produced nearly 7 million ounces of gold. These gold-bearing mesothermal quartz vein systems form a zone 160 km long by 5 to 8 km wide along the western margin of the Coast Mountains. The vein systems are in or near shear zones adjacent to west-verging, mid-Cretaceous thrust faults. The veins are hosted by diverse, variably metamorphosed, sedimentary, volcanic, and intrusive rocks. From the Coast Mountains batholith westward, the host rocks include mixed metasedimentary and metavolcanic sequences of Carboniferous and older, Permian and Triassic, and Jurassic-Cretaceous age. The sequences are juxtaposed along mid-Cretaceous thrust faults (Miller and others, 1994). The sequences are intruded by mid-Cretaceous to middle Eocene plutons, mainly diorite, tonalite, granodiorite, quartz monzonite, and granite. Sheetlike tonalite plutons emplaced just east of the Juneau Gold Belt and undeformed granite and granodiorite bodies that are emplaced farther to the east are between 55 and 48 Ma (Gehrels and others, 1991). The structural grain of the belt is defined by northwest-striking, moderately to steeply northeast-dipping, penetrative foliation that developed between Cretaceous and Eocene time (Miller and others, 1994). The majority of the veins in the Juneau Gold Belt strike northwest. Isotopic dates indicate that the auriferous veins in the Juneau Gold Belt formed between 56 and 55 Ma (Miller and others, 1994; Goldfarb and others, 1997).
Workings: The Pansy prospect was discovered in 1889 and has a 35-foot adit.
Age: Isotopic dates indicate that the auriferous veins in the Juneau Gold Belt formed between 56 and 55 Ma (Miller and others, 1994; Goldfarb and others, 1997).
Production: Several hundred tons of ore were mined but only a minor amount was shipped to the New Boston Mill for testing (Redman and others, 1989).
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: None
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