Juneau gold belt

[7] The 1986 study by the Bureau of Mines concentrated on the mineral resources of the northern region of southeast Alaska, specifically covering the Juneau gold belt.

[9] The northern part of the belt, the Eagle River region, extends northwestward from Salmon Creek to Berners Bay.

The belt is characterized as a narrow strip of land lying between salt water and the Coast Range's high diorite peaks.

[7] The gold belt stretches over a length of 160 kilometres (99 mi) trending north-northwest of the Cretaceous Terrance complex.

The complex is hosted in an accretionary terrane of Permian to Cretaceous sedimentary and volcanic rocks which have undergone greenschist grade metamorphism.

Gold bearing veins and fissure fillings of the area are comparable with the California "mother lode" deposits.

[1] Most of the gold mines in the Juneau belt occur in the band of black slate which lies between the schists to the northeast and the greenstones to the southwest.