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Lower Chicken Creek

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308874
MRDS ID A015069
Record type Site
Current site name Lower Chicken Creek
Alternate or previous names Chicken Creek
Related records 10002631

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -157.96292, 62.34939 (WGS84)
Relative position Two miles S of Chicken Mtn

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iditarod B-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Iditarod SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iditarod C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Antimony Critical Secondary
Chromium Critical Secondary
Mercury Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Stibnite Ore

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) -157.96292, 62.34939
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Weathered monzonite forms a residual placer that grades downstream into eluvial then bench and stream placers. Mertie (1936) reported fineness at 862 parts Au and 128 parts Ag. Concentrates contain scheelite and cinnabar.
  • Age = Tertiary/Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Iditarod

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Production 1911-40 totaled about 12,755 oz. Au and 2,024 oz. Ag

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface and underground

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Bundtzen and others, 1992

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer: bench, stream, residual, alluvial
Deposit Other Comments = Stream gradient 10-15%.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-MAY-1994 Powers, M.T.; Huber, D.F.; Miller, M.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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