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Lucky Creek (also known as Goodluck Creek)

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Chromium, Mercury, REE, Tin
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10002985
MRDS ID A015488
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Creek (also known as Goodluck Creek)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -148.42498, 65.55161 (WGS84)
Relative position Cobb (1972, MF-413) loc. 70. These placer deposits are scattered in the lower mile of Lucky Creek, a tributary of Livengood Creek. The coordinates given are for the placer deposits closest to the mouth of Lucky Creek. Accuracy is within 2,000 feet. Lucky Creek is also called 'Goodluck Creek' and 'Lucky Gulch'. The creek is named 'Lucky Creek' on the U.S.G.S. Livengood C-3 quadrangle.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Livengood C-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Livengood N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Livengood C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Chromium Critical Secondary
Mercury Secondary
REE Critical Secondary
Tin Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Ore Material = niobium-titanium-uranium-rare earth mineral
  • Ore Material = niobium-titanium-uranium-rare earth mineral

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Chromite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Placer mining was reported in 1918, 1934, and 1939. At the lower placer, some flakey gold was obtained just above bedrock. About 1,500 feet upstream, some fine gold is present in angular wash almost at the surface (Mertie, 1918). Minerals in samples from old placer dumps included limonite, hematite, magnetite, epidote, spinel, chromite, ilmenite, gold, cinnabar and cassiterite (Wedow and others, 1954).? the bedrock in the basin is chiefly chert and silicified Mississippian limestone. There is a small body of diorite on greenstone near the head of Lucky Creek which may be a dike between the chert and limestone (Wedow and others, 1954). One sample contained a mineral in the euxenite-polycrase series, rare-earth, uranium, niobates and titanates (Wedow and others, 1954). Chromite and chrome spinels are abundant in Lucky Gulch and are probably derived from serpentine in Middle Devonian basic volcanics (Joesting, 1942; ATDM Pamph. 1, p. 17).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Tolovana

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Placer mining was reported in 1918, 1934, and 1939, but there is no record of amount of production.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = During placer mining, one shaft was sunk 60 feet to bedrock (Mertie, 1918, p. 268).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Wedow and others, 1954

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-MAY-1999 C.J. Freeman Avalon Development Corporation
Reporter 04-MAY-1999 J.R. Guidetti Schaefer Avalon Development Corporation

Beyond USGS

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