Acknowledgements
Steve Israel (Yukon Geological Survey) and Graham Nixon (British Columbia Geological Survey) have been closely involved in this project and we greatly appreciate their contributions. We would like to thank Nick Arndt for helping us get this project started and Nick Massey for insights into Vancouver Island geology. We are grateful to Jeff Trop, Jeanine Schmidt, and Danny Rosenkrans for their advice on geology and logistics within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and the Alaska Range, and to Bruno Kieffer and Frederico Henriques for field assistance. Bruno Kieffer and Jane Barling assisted with some analytical work at PCIGR. We also appreciate advice from David Brew, Don Carlisle, and Travis Hudson. Bob Duncan, Claude Herzberg, Julian Pearce, and John Mahoney provided advice and assistance with various parts of this project. Funding has been provided by the Rocks to Riches Program administered by the BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines in 2004, by the BC Geological Survey and Yukon Geological Survey, and by NSERC Discovery Grants to J. Scoates and D. Weis. A. Greene was supported by a University Graduate Fellowship at the University of British Columbia.