Maybe Creek occurrence, Iditarod Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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

The name Maybe Creek suggests that the placer resource was known to early prospectors.

Location: This placer occurrence is on Maybe Creek about one and a half miles below its head. The coordinates are at a location where gold was panned at an elevation of about 1,450 feet in the NW1/4 NW1/4, section 9, T. 30 N., R. 42 W., of the Seward Meridian. The location is accurate.
Geology: Maybe Creek drains an area underlain by a monzonite pluton of Upper Cretaceous age (Bundtzen, Laird, and Lockwood, 1988; Miller and Bundtzen, 1994; Miller, Bundtzen, and Gray, 2005). The creek heads into a glacial cirque which indicates that the drainage basin was glaciated in Pleistocene time. The placer occurrence is in shallow, coarse, fluvial gravels along about 0.6 mile of upper Maybe Creek from about 1,450 to 1,800 feet in elevation. Up to 10 grains of fine gold per pan were found at several sites in this portion of the creek. The grade and volume are unknown. The principal heavy minerals identified in panned concentrates include gold, cinnabar, polybasite (?), scheelite, chromite, and magnesiochromite (Bundtzen, Cox, and Veach, 1987).

Workings: Surface sampling was conducted by both the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys and the U.S. Geological Survey in the 1980s (Bundtzen, Cox and Veach, 1987; Bennett and others, 1988).
Age: Probably Late Quaternary.

Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - Ag, Hg, W
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Placer Au deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	ID080

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