Hudson Creek Prospect, Melozitna Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Hudson Creek Prospect	Prospect
Melozitna Mining District	Mining District
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

This site is the Hudson Creek, U.S. BLM MILS location 0020470006 (Oddenino and others, 1995; Interagency Minerals Coordinating Group, 2004).
Location: A placer gold prospect on Hudson Creek was identified on a map by Eakin (1916), but it is difficult to reconcile that map with modern maps and locate it exactly. Mining claims were in staked in 1989 in sections 11 and 14, T. 3 S., R. 25 E., Kateel River Meridian (Kardex file 047-029; unpublished record, Alaska Division of Mining, Land & Water). For this record, the site is located on one of those claims at the junction of Hudson Creek with a west-flowing tributary, in the SE1/4 of section 11, T. 3 S., R. 25 E. The location is accurate.
Geology: The rocks in the vicinity of Hudson Creek and its headwaters are Precambrian or Paleozoic, greenschist-grade, quartz-chlorite-muscovite schist and micaceous quartzite and subordinate greenstone, glaucophane-bearing schist, and marble (Patton and others, 1977). The prospect is less than 1 mile west of a small stock of porphyritic, biotite quartz monzonite east of Gold Mountain. Patton and others (1977) correlate the quartz monzonite, which is altered and slightly cataclastic, with the Lower Cretaceous Melozitna pluton, dated at 111 +/- 3 Ma. The upper reaches of Hudson Creek parallel the quartz monzonite-schist contact. Eakin (1916) reported a placer gold prospect on Hudson Creek, but did not describe any mining or production. Pete Vournas staked 8 mining claims in 1989 along Hudson Creek in sections 11 and 14, T. 3 S., R. 25 E. (Kardex file 047-029; unpublished record, Alaska Division of Mining, Land & Water). He did assessment work on the claims in 1990, but there is no record of any further work.
Workings: Eakin (1916) reported a placer gold prospect on Hudson Creek, but did not describe any mining or production. Pete Vournas staked 8 mining claims in 1989 along Hudson Creek in sections 11 and 14, T. 3 S., R. 25 E. (Kardex file 047-029; unpublished record, Alaska Division of Mining, Land & Water). He did assessment work on the claims in 1990, but there is no record of any further work.
Age: Quaternary.

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

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