Lucky Six Creek

The Lucky Six Creek is a gold and silver mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Lucky Six Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Graphite

Location

State: Alaska
District: Noatak

Land Status

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Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

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Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
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Organization:
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Placer gold

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Gold reported to assay $19.2/oz; equivalent to a fineness of about 930. Surface workings but no activity since the early 1900s.

Comment (Production): Production Notes = Production of a 'few ounces of placer gold' (Grybeck and Nelson, 1981).

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Grybeck and Nelson, 1981

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = A few ounces of coarse placer gold was reported by Schrader (1904) to have been produced prior to 1913 from Lucky Six Creek. A small lens of high-grade silver ore and graphite was reported by prospectors prior to World War I (Smith, 1913). However, there is no more recent substantiation of any of these deposits and no new information.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Stream placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Located within Gates of the Arctic National Park.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1978, Mineral appraisal of the proposed Gates of the Arctic Wilderness National Park, Alaska, A preliminary comment: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 109-78, 29 p., 4 sheets.

Reference (Deposit): Schrader, F.C., 1904, A reconnaissance in northern Alaska across the Rocky Mountains, along Koyukuk, John, Anaktuvuk, and Colville rivers and the Arctic coast to Cape Lisburne, in 1901, with notes by W.J. Peters: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 20, 139 p.

Reference (Deposit): Anderson, Eskil, 1945, Asbestos and jade occurrences in the Kobuk River region, Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Pamphlet 3-R, 48 p.

Reference (Deposit): Grybeck, D.J., and Nelson, S.W., 1981, Mineral deposit map of the Survey Pass quadrangle, Brooks Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1176-F, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Smith. P.S., 1913, The Noatak-Kobuk region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 536, 60 p.

Reference (Deposit): U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1979, Mineral deposits of the Alatna, John, Killik and Kobuk River area and the North Fork of the Koyukuk River, Brooks Range, Alaska--A summary report: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 36-79, 23 p., 1 sheet.

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