Lower Chicken Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Antimony, Chromium, Mercury, Tungsten
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  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 10002631
MRDS ID A015069
Record type Site
Current site name Lower Chicken Creek
Alternate or previous names Chicken Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -157.96292, 62.34911 (WGS84)
Relative position SEE LOCATION COMMENTS

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

Comments on the location information

  • TWO MILES S OF CHICKEN MTN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Chromium Critical Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ONE PLACER CONCENTRATE SAMPLE CONTAINED 7.26 OZ/TON AU AND 1.35 OZ/TON AG, SEE REF. 3, TABLE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Allanite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Chromite Unknown
Gold Unknown
Scheelite Unknown
Stibnite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -157.96292, 62.34911

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1911
Year of last production 1940

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Iditarod

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION 1911-40 TOTALED ABOUT 12,755 OZ. AU AND 2,024 OZ. AG

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 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.
Deposit STREAM GRADIENT 10-15%.
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1987 Powers, M.T. (Huber, D.F.) U.S. Geological Survey ARDF AND MRDS MERGED RECORD
Updater 01-MAY-1994 Powers, M.T. (Huber, D.F.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 06-MAR-1998 Mason, George U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Alaska resources

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