Mine detail: Glacier Creek

Previously called 'Main ZonePalmer'

Location:	Skagway County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long:	59.38974, -136.39214
dep_id:	10309006
mrds_id:	A013088
Commodity type:	metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Silver, Gold, Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc
Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect
ore:	Barite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Magnetite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
gangue:	Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite
model:	184: Massive sulfide, kuroko
alteration:	Quartz-sericite-pyrite (phyllic) alteration and chloritic alteration developed within mafic metavolcanics.
Reporter:	T.C. Crafford
References:	Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Skagway quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-424, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Robertson, E.C., and Winkler, G.R., 1974, Geology of the Skagway B-3 and B-4 quadrangles, southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 832, 33 p. Deposit:: Hawley, C.C., 1976, Stratabound volcanogenic deposits in Alaska: Alaska Geological Society Symposium, 4th, Anchorage, Alaska, April 1975, Proceedings, p. T1-T23. Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Mt. Fairweather and Skagway quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-316, 123 p. Deposit:: Redman, E.C., 1983, Reconnaissance geology of the Glacier Creek area, Skagway B-4 quadrangle, Alaska, in Appendix B of Still, J.C., 1984, Stratiform massive sulfide deposits in the Mt. Henry Clay area, southeast Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 118-84, 65 p. Deposit:: Berg, H.C., 1984, Regional geologic summary, metallogenesis, and mineral resources of southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 84-572, 298 p., 1 plate, scale approx. 1:600,000. Deposit:: Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Berg, H.C., Brew, D.A., Grybeck, D.J., Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., and Yeend, W., 1987, Significant metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1786, 104 p. Deposit:: Forbes, R.B., Gilbert, W.G., and Redman, E., 1989, Geologic setting and petrology of the metavolcanic rocks in the northwestern part of the Skagway B-4 Quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public-Data File 89-14, 46 p. Deposit:: Gilbert, W.G., and Redman, E.C., 1989, Lode deposits, prospects, and occurrences of the Porcupine mining area, southeast Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 17-89, 1 sheet, scale 1:39,600. Deposit:: Still, J.C., Hoekzema, R.B., Bundtzen, T.K., Gilbert, W.G., Wier, K.R., Burns, L.E., and Fechner, S.A., 1991, Economic geology of Haines-Klukwan-Porcupine area, southeastern Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 91-4, 156 p., 5 sheets, scale 1:63,360. Deposit:: Rubicon Minerals, 1998, Palmer VMS Project, southeast Alaska, Executive Summary: unpublished report by Rubicon Minerals Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia, 25 p.