Kay Creek Occurrence, Koyukuk Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Kay Creek Occurrence	Occurrence
Koyukuk Mining District	Mining District
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: Kay Creek is not named on the Wiseman B-3 topographic map. The only information on the location of Kay Creek is a report by Reed (1938) that describes Kay Creek as a small, southeast-flowing, right-limit tributary of Michigan Creek that heads against Jay Creek. Kay Creek is most likely the small drainage about 3 miles above the junction of East and Michigan Creeks and about 8 miles east-southeast of Mathews Dome. There is, however, nothing that describes the location of any workings on this creek. This occurrence is arbitrarily located a short distance upstream from the mouth of the northern of the two unnamed creeks in the S1/2 section 17, T. 30 N., R. 16 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian.
Geology: The only information available on this prospect is that some mining and considerable prospecting was done, probably prior to 1910 (Reed, 1938).
Workings: Extensive prospecting which resulted in some mining prior to 1910 (Reed, 1938).
Age: Quaternary.

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

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	WI091

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