Quail Creek Mine, Rampart Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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Quail Creek Mine	Mine
Rampart Mining District	Mining District
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Discoverers of gold wanted to call the stream 'Ptarmigan' Creek, but could not spell it, so they settled for 'Quail' Creek (Prindle and Hess, 1906).
Location: Cobb (1972, MF-413), loc. 60; NW1/4SE1/4 sec. 11, T. 6 N., R. 11 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian. This mine is marked on Livengood (B-6) near the confluence of Quail Creek with Troublesome Creek; about 4 miles ENE of Wolverine Mountain.
Geology: Most of the gold is in a bench placer in the lower mile of the creek where there is a well-defined bench 150 feet above the creek on its north side. Above this bench, about 400 feet in elevation above the creek, an old channel on the spur between the main branch and the south fork of Quail Creek shows colors (Mertie, 1934). Concentrates contain picotite, cassiterite, barite, scheelite, pyrite, garnet, gold, zircon, rutile and one grain of cinnabar (Mertie, 1934; Waters, 1934). Bedrock is slaty shale with many quartz veinlets and small porphyry dikes (Prindle and Hess, 1905). Bench and/or creek placers were mined sporadically from 1898 to as recently as 1940 (Cobb, 1976; OFR 76-633). No data on total production.
Workings: Bench and/or creek placers were mined sporadically from 1898 to as recently as 1940 (Cobb, 1976; OFR 76-633).
Production: Bench and/or creek placers were mined sporadically from 1898 to as recently as 1940, but there is no data on total production (Cobb, 1976; OFR 76-633).

Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - Ag, Hg, Sn, W
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer gold deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

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