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Wakeup Creek

Past Producer 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. 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 10000570
MRDS ID A011017
Record type Site
Current site name Wakeup Creek
Related records 10160444

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -149.48332, 67.47971 (WGS84)
Relative position Wakeup Creek is a small tributary of Jim Pup approximately 1 1/2 to 2 miles southwest of Bob Johnson Lake (formerly Big Lake). The site is across a low pass at the head of Lake Creek (sec. 26, T. 31 N., R. 9 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian). Mining has occurred for approximately 1,500 feet upstream from the mouth of Wakeup Creek. The location is accurate within a 1/4-mile radius.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chandalar B-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Chandalar S(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chandalar(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
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 Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -149.48332, 67.47971
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Wakeup Creek has placer gold at three creek levels (Reed, 1938). The present channel lies on older gravel fill and does not cut bedrock. Minor gold was produced from these surface gravels in the early days (about 1910), but the gravels have since been covered by tailings from later mining. A deep channel, which is a continuation of the deep channel on Jim Pup (CH024), is also present and has been mined for about 1,500 feet upstream from the confluence of Jim Pup and Wakeup Creek. It is about 55 feet deep at this confluence and deepens to 112 feet 1,500 feet upstream. The deep channel is incised into hard, smooth, schist bedrock with five or six gutters, 2 to 4 feet deep along its bottom and has 5 feet of gravel lying on top of the bedrock. The channel is about 25 feet wide at its lower end and narrows upstream to 15 to 20 feet. The gold is generally on the high points of the bedrock between the gutters but in places is also distributed throughout the gravel. The gold is fine but rather rough with only a few larger pieces; values run from $3.50 to $4.00 per bedrock foot (at $35 per ounce of gold). The high channel on Wakeup Creek appears to be a former channel of Jim Pup, which ran toward Bob Johnson Lake (formerly Big lake), the reverse of the present drainage. The depth to bedrock in this channel is about 20 feet where it had been opened up in 1937; although no gold had been produced from this channel as of 1937, it was said to run about $0.50 per square foot of bedrock (Reed, 1938).
  • Age = Quaternary.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Not determined

Mining district

District name Koyukuk

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface and underground workings. Drift mining of the deep channel in the 1930s.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Reed, 1938

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Deposit Other Comments = See also: Jim Pup (CH024).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1999 J.M. Britton U.S. Geological Survey

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