Location: The location of this site is not well known because there has been no placer activity along Helpmejack Creek since 1898 (Mendenhall, 1902). The map site is arbitrarily placed on Helpmejack Creek, about 1.5 miles south of the junction of Lake Creek, in the NW1/4 of sec. 35, T. 19 N., R. 24 E., of the Kateel River Meridian. Location is probably accurate to within one mile. The site corresponds to location 76 of Grybeck and Nelson (1981).
Geology: Helpmejack Creek was prospected for placer gold around 1900, but little or no work apparently has been done since then (Mendenhall, 1902). Some gold may have been recovered during the early work, but in view of the exhaustive gold prospecting in central Alaska since then, it is unlikely that any significant placer gold remains to be found at this site.
Workings: Some prospecting and possibly some minor placer gold production somewhere along Helpmejack Creek around 1900.
Production: Possible minor placer gold production around 1900.

Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Undetermined.
Deposit Model: Placer gold (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	SP043

Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality

North AmericaContinent

Brooks RangeMountain Range
Rocky MountainsMountain Range

North America PlateTectonic Plate

Angayucham TerraneAccretionary Complex
Brooks Range DomainVolcanic Arc

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References

Grybeck, D.J., and Nelson, S.W., 1981, Mineral deposit map of the Survey Pass quadrangle, Brooks Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1176-F, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. Mendenhall, W.C., 1902, Reconnaissance from Fort Hamlin to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, by way of Dall, Kanuti, Allen, and Kowak Rivers: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 10, 68 p. U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1978, Mineral appraisal of the proposed Gates of the Arctic Wilderness National Park, Alaska--A preliminary comment: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 109-78, 29 p., 4 sheets.

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