Lucky Six Creek Mine, Noatak Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Lucky Six Creek Mine	Mine
Noatak Mining District	Mining District
Northwest Arctic Borough	Borough
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Located within Gates of the Arctic National Park.
Location: This site is based on early descriptions (Schrader, 1904) of several mineral occurrences and minor placer gold production on Lucky Six Creek. The prospects were apparently not visited by Schrader, whose descriptions were based on reports of prospectors. Their exact location cannot now be determined. The site is arbitrarily located at about the midpoint of Lucky Six Creek, about 3.5 miles downstream from Gull Pass. It is in the E1/2 of sec. 7, T. 25 N., R. 18 E., of the Kateel River Meridian. The location is accurate to within one mile. The site corresponds to locality 26 in Grybeck and Nelson (1981).
Geology: A few ounces of coarse placer gold was reported by Schrader (1904) to have been produced prior to 1913 from Lucky Six Creek. A small lens of high-grade silver ore and graphite was reported by prospectors prior to World War I (Smith, 1913). However, there is no more recent substantiation of any of these deposits and no new information.
Workings: Gold reported to assay $19.2/oz; equivalent to a fineness of about 930. Surface workings but no activity since the early 1900s.
Production: Production of a 'few ounces of placer gold' (Grybeck and Nelson, 1981).

Commodities (Major) - Ag, Au; (Minor) - Graphite
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Stream placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	SP011

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