Latitude: 64°40'44"N
Longitude: 164°29'41"W
Location: This prospect is located on the south side of West Creek (SO029) about 1.8 miles upstream from the confluence with Shovel Creek (SO017). It is just west of the West Creek lode prospect (SO030). This is locality 118 of Gamble (1988).
Geology: Gamble (1988) reports geochemical results for a sample of limonitic pelitic schist from a shaft dump; this sample contained 0.1 ppm Au and 100 ppm As. Bedrock here is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Workings: A small shaft or adit was driven to explore the prospect.
Age: Not known; Cretaceous?
Alteration: Oxidation.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Sulfide-bearing pelitic schist?
References
Gamble, B.M., 1988, Non-placer mineral occurrences in the Solomon, Bendeleben, and southern part of the Kotzebue quadrangles, western Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1838-B, 13 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.
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