Lake Creek

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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 10038124
MRDS ID M045409
Record type Site
Current site name Lake Creek
Alternate or previous names Lower Lake Creek, Alaska Continental Golds

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -150.98969, 62.05564 (WGS84)
Relative position Capps (1913) reports that one man mined gravels on a bench twelve miles from the junction of Lake Creek with the Yentna River. The location of this occurrence is estimated at best. Coordinates given here place the prospect in the northwest quarter of Section 30, T. 23 N., R. 9 W., of the Seward Meridian.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Matanuska-Susitna(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Talkeetna SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Talkeetna(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Yentna River(hydrologic unit)

Susitna River(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Central Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Platinum 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) -150.98969, 62.05564

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Cobb and Reed (1980) report that the lower part of the (water) course is entrenched as much as 300 feet in glacial and Tertiary continental deposits; bedrock is very deep. Fine gold was recovered from both stream and bench placers. Martin (1919, p. 33) reports platinum in the Lake Creek basin, but no specific location is given.
  • Age = Pleistocene.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Undetermined.

Mining district

District name Yentna

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The drainage has been prospected and mined by various small scale surface methods.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Capps, 1913

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-AUG-1998 Madelyn A. Millholland Millholland & Associates

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Alaska resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.