The Lucky Creek (also known as Goodluck Creek) is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Lucky Creek (also known as Goodluck Creek) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lucky Creek (also known as Goodluck Creek)
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Chromium
Secondary: Tin
Secondary: REE
Secondary: Mercury
Location
State: Alaska
District: Tolovana
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cassiterite
Ore: Chromite
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer gold deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = niobium-titanium-uranium-rare earth mineral
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = During placer mining, one shaft was sunk 60 feet to bedrock (Mertie, 1918, p. 268).
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = niobium-titanium-uranium-rare earth mineral
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer mining was reported in 1918, 1934, and 1939. At the lower placer, some flakey gold was obtained just above bedrock. About 1,500 feet upstream, some fine gold is present in angular wash almost at the surface (Mertie, 1918). Minerals in samples from old placer dumps included limonite, hematite, magnetite, epidote, spinel, chromite, ilmenite, gold, cinnabar and cassiterite (Wedow and others, 1954).? the bedrock in the basin is chiefly chert and silicified Mississippian limestone. There is a small body of diorite on greenstone near the head of Lucky Creek which may be a dike between the chert and limestone (Wedow and others, 1954). One sample contained a mineral in the euxenite-polycrase series, rare-earth, uranium, niobates and titanates (Wedow and others, 1954). Chromite and chrome spinels are abundant in Lucky Gulch and are probably derived from serpentine in Middle Devonian basic volcanics (Joesting, 1942; ATDM Pamph. 1, p. 17).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Wedow and others, 1954
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Placer mining was reported in 1918, 1934, and 1939, but there is no record of amount of production.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1941, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1939: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 926-A, p. 1-106.
Reference (Deposit): Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1918, Lode mining in the Fairbanks district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662-H, p. 403-424.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Livengood quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-819, 241 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Livengood quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-413, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Joesting, H.R., 1942, Strategic mineral occurences in interior Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Pamphlet 1, 46 p.
Reference (Deposit): Wedow, Helmuth, Jr., and White, M.G., 1954, Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in east-central Alaska, 1949: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 335, 22 p.
Reference (Deposit): Martin, G.C., 1920, The Alaska mining industry in 1918: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 712-A, p. 1-52.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1936, Mineral industry in Alaska in 1934: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 868-A, p. 1-91.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1973, Placer deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1374, 213 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-633, 72 p.
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