Preliminary report on the gypsum deposits near Iyoukeen Cove, Chicagof Island, southeastern Alaska

Open-File Report 47-20
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Abstract

The only known gypsum deposits in Alaska are on northeastern Chichagof Island, southeastern Alaska, at Iyoukeen Cove (fig. 1). The area first developed and for a time worked by the Pacific Coast Gypsum Co. is approximately 1 mile upstream from the mouth of Gypsum Creek at an elevation of about 70 feet (fig. 2). The second deposit, known as the Gypsum-Camel property, is on tidewater 12 miles northeast of the mouth of Gypsum Creek (fig. 2). Iyoukeen Cove is about 35 air miles southwest of Juneau and is on both the mail-boat and the airline routes between Juneau and Sitka.

The two deposits were examined by a Geological Survey party during the summer of 1946. Topographic and geologic maps were made of the vicinity of both deposits (figs. 2 and 3). Accessible underground workings at the Gypsum-Camel property also were mapped,

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Preliminary report on the gypsum deposits near Iyoukeen Cove, Chicagof Island, southeastern Alaska
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 47-20
DOI 10.3133/ofr4720
Year Published 1947
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description Report: 4 p.; 1 Plate: 18.63 x 19.38 inches
Country United States
State Alaska
Other Geospatial Chicagof Island, southeastern Alaska
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