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Goo Goo

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10001590
MRDS ID A012346
Record type Site
Current site name Goo Goo
Alternate or previous names Golden Dream, Mountain

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -131.18787, 55.36864 (WGS84)
Relative position 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.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ketchikan Gateway(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ketchikan B-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Ketchikan SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ketchikan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ketchikan(hydrologic unit)

Southern Southeast Alaska(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southeast Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tongass National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) 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.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Greenschist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -131.18787, 55.36864
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The country rocks in this part of Revillagigedo Island are marine, interbedded, andesitic and basaltic metavolcanic rocks and subordinate pelitic metasedimentary rocks that are intruded by stocks, sills, and dikes of Cretaceous feldspar-porphyritic granodiorite (Berg and others, 1988). The strata and some of the granodiorite were regionally metamorphosed to greenschist grade in Late Cretaceous time. These regionally metamorphosed rocks subsequently were locally remetamorphosed to hornblende hornfels near the contacts of Cretaceous granodiorite plutons that were emplaced after the regional metamorphism. The premetamorphic age of the strata is uncertain. Berg and others (1988) assign them a Mesozoic or (late) Paleozoic age. Berg (1982) and Crawford and others (in press) assign them to the Gravina belt, of Late Jurassic or Cretaceous age, or to the Taku terrane, of late Paleozoic to Late Triassic age. The metamorphic and intrusive rocks locally are overlain by basalt and andesite lava flows of Quaternary or Tertiary age.? 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. The Goo Goo vein was located in 1905 and developed in the early 1900s by a 20-foot shaft and 15-foot tunnel. Brooks (1902, p. 67) reported gold assay values up to $4.00/ton (Au at $20.67/ounce). Maas and others (1995, p. 217) report a mean value of 760 ppb Au in 7 samples of the Goo Goo 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 ppm Au in a section of vein 7.5 feet thick and 79 feet long; and 7.1 ppm Ag 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 Au. Workings, dating from the early 1900s, included 2 adits, one 1800 feet long and one caved; one flooded shaft; and several surface trenches and pits. Combined recorded production from the claims, probably all in the early 1900s, was 1.4 kg of gold. Maas and others' 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).
  • 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.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name Ketchikan

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Combined recorded production from the Goo Goo and Goo Goo Extension claims, probably all in the early 1900s, was 1.4 kg of gold (Maas and others, 1995, p. 218).

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The Goo Goo vein was located in 1905 and developed in the early 1900s by a 20-foot shaft and 15-foot tunnel. Brooks (1902, p. 67) reported gold assay values up to $4.00/ton (Au at $20.67/ounce). Maas and others (1995, p. 217) report a mean value of 760 ppb Au in 7 samples of the Goo Goo vein.? According to Maas and others (1995, p. 217), the best results of sampling in 1946 included: 5.8 ppm Au in a section of vein 7.5 feet thick and 79 feet long; and 7.1 ppm Ag 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 Au. Workings, dating from the early 1900s, included 2 adits, one 1800 feet long and one caved; one flooded shaft; and several surface trenches and pits.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Wright and Wright, 1908; Maas and others, 1995

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a)
Deposit Other Comments = Some early reports apparently refer to this property as the Golden Dream claim, or Mountain claim (Cobb and Elliott, 1980, p. 145).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-JUL-1999 H.C. Berg U.S. Geological Survey

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