Latitude: 56°50'4"N
Longitude: 132°26'56"W
The Bureau of Land Management declared the claims here invalid in 1996 and the prospect is now within the Stikine-Leconte Wilderness Area which is closed to mineral exploration and mining.
Location: This prospect is on what were four claims in a glacial valley on an unnamed stream that drains into the north side of Le Conte Bay about 2 1/2 miles west of the terminus of the Le Conte Glacier. The claims are in a relatively flat section of the creek, mostly in the SE1/4 of section 14, T. 58 S., R. 82 E., but a portion extends down into the NE1/4, section 23, T. 58 S., R. 82 E. The coordinates are at about the center of the claims.
Geology: Four placer gold claims were staked at the site in the mid-70's and there was at least serious prospecting through the late 1990's (Still and others, 2002). The site is in a glacial basin may have served as a natural trap for heavy minerals in a gravel section 60 feet or so thick. The Bureau of Land Management declared the claims invalid in 1996 and the prospect is now within the Stikine-Leconte Wilderness Area which is closed to mineral exploration and mining.
Workings: Four placer gold claims were staked at the site in the mid-70's and there was at least serious prospecting through the late 1990's (Still and others, 2002). The Bureau of Land Management declared the claims invalid in 1996 and the prospect is now within the Stikine-Leconte Wilderness Area which is closed to mineral exploration and mining.
Age: Quaternary or Recent.
Production: Possibly some gold produced during prospecting at the site.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Undetermined.
Deposit Model: Placer gold (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
References
Still, J.C., Bittenbender, P.E., Bean, K.W., and Gensler, E.G., 2002, Mineral assessment of the Stikine area, central Southeast Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Land Management Technical Report 51, 560 p.
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