Location
East flank of the Weaver Mountains in Peeples Valley, Tps. 11 and 12 N., Rs. 4 and 5 W.
Topographic Maps
Congress 30-minute quadrangle; Prescott 2-degree sheet, Army Map Service.
Geologic Map
Arizona Bureau of Mines, 1958, Geologic map of Yavapai County, scale 1:375,000.
Access
From Prescott, 26 miles southwest on U.S. Highway 89 to Peeples Valley. Dirt roads lead from the highway east to Kirkland Creek and west to Model.
Extent
Small placers are found on the west side of Peeples Valley in the vicinity of Model Creek and on the east side of Peeples Valley in Kirkland Creek. The placers in Model Creek and other gulches occur in small local basins or channels for about three-quarters of a mile on each side of Model Creek on the pediment area between the Weaver Mountains and Peeples Valley.
This area cannot be accurately located because there are no large-scale maps, but it is probably near the Model mine in T. 11 N., R. 5 W. (Congress quadrangle). The Columbia placer is near the old Monitor mine in sec. 21, T. UN., R. 5 W.
The location of the placers in Kirkland Creek is not certain, because U.S. Bureau of Mines records indicate only that the placers are on Kirkland Creek near Kirkland (T. 12 N., R. 4 W.). The headwaters of Kirkland Creek drain the northwest flank of the Weaver Mountains, opposite the Placeritas and French Creek placers, and the Kirkland placers probably are between the mountain slope and Kirkland.
Production History
Very little is known about the production of the placers in Model Creek; the area was active in 1933, but production for that year was included with production from the Weaver district by the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
The placers in Kirkland Creek were worked on a small scale for a few years during the period 1934-57.
Source
Unknown. Presumably, the gold was derived from small goldbearing veins in the immediate vicinity of the placers, but, because the area has not been studied in detail, no information is known about the occurrence of the gold-bearing veins.
Literature
Wilson, 1961: Model placers: location; extent and character of gold-bearing gravels; size of gold particles; placer-mining activity during the period 1932-33.
