Location: The Gold King prospect is located somewhat imprecisely at an elevation of 3,700 ft about 1 1/2 miles northeast of the confluence of Day Creek and Big Creek (sec. 26, T. 31 N., R. 3 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian). The location is accurate within a 2-mile radius.
Geology: Little information is available on this property except the description in Heiner and Wolff (1968) that it is a gold quartz property.
Workings: A three-stamp mill was reportedly built in 1910 (Heiner and Wolff, 1968).
Age: Middle Cretaceous(?) based on arguments by Dillon (1982) that the age of emplacement of the gold-bearing quartz veins of the Koyukuk and Chandalar districts was between the Neocomian metamorphism of the Devonian host rocks and their erosional unroofing and cooling in Albian time.

Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Undetermined
Deposit Model: Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins(?) (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a)

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This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.

ⓘ Gold

Mineral List

ⓘ Native Gold

1 valid mineral.

Detailed Mineral List:

ⓘ Native Gold

Formula: Au

References:

(2008) Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF) Open-File Report 2008-1225. US Geological Survey

Gallery:

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 1 - Elements
ⓘ	Native Gold	1.AA.05	Au

List of minerals for each chemical element

Au	Gold
Au	ⓘ Native Gold	Au

Other Databases

Link to USGS - Alaska:	CH016

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References

Heiner, L.E., and Wolff, E.N., eds., 1968, Mineral resources of northern Alaska, Final report, submitted to the NORTH Commission: University of Alaska, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory Report No. 16, 306 p.

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