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Helpmejack Creek

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10001200
MRDS ID A011911
Record type Site
Current site name Helpmejack Creek
Related records 10233454

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -153.55337, 67.00961 (WGS84)
Relative position The location of this site is not well known because there has been no placer activity along Helpmejack Creek since 1898 (Mendenhall, 1902). The map site is arbitrarily placed on Helpmejack Creek, about 1.5 miles south of the junction of Lake Creek, in the NW1/4 of sec. 35, T. 19 N., R. 24 E., of the Kateel River Meridian. Location is probably accurate to within one mile. The site corresponds to location 76 of Grybeck and Nelson (1981).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Survey Pass A-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Wiseman SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Survey Pass(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Ore Material = Placer gold

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -153.55337, 67.00961
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Helpmejack Creek was prospected for placer gold around 1900, but little or no work apparently has been done since then (Mendenhall, 1902). Some gold may have been recovered during the early work, but in view of the exhaustive gold prospecting in central Alaska since then, it is unlikely that any significant placer gold remains to be found at this site.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Koyukuk

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Possible minor placer gold production around 1900.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Some prospecting and possibly some minor placer gold production somewhere along Helpmejack Creek around 1900.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Mendenhall, W.C., 1902, Reconnaissance from Fort Hamlin to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, by way of Dall, Kanuti, Allen, and Kowak Rivers: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 10, 68 p.

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1978, Mineral appraisal of the proposed Gates of the Arctic Wilderness National Park, Alaska, A preliminary comment: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 109-78, 29 p., 4 sheets.

  • Deposit

    Grybeck, D.J., and Nelson, S.W., 1981, Mineral deposit map of the Survey Pass quadrangle, Brooks Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1176-F, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Mendenhall, 1902

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer gold (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-OCT-1999 S.W. Nelson U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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