McKinley Creek Prospects, Hot Springs Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
McKinley Creek Prospects	Group of Prospects
Hot Springs Mining District	Mining District
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: The location of placer prospect(s) along McKinley Creek is poorly documented, and references to McKinley Creek could pertain to any portion of the creek. For this record, the site is on the creek at the boundary between sections 13 and 24, T. 4 N., R. 14 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian, where mining claims were active in 1984. This site roughly corresponds with the site for McKinley Creek, U.S. Bureau of Land Management MAS number 0020480025.
Geology: The McKinley Creek area is underlain by Mesozoic clastic sedimentary strata that are cut by thrust faults (Chapman and others, 1982; Reifenstuhl and others, 1998). A 100-foot-thick carbonatite sill or dike in Triassic or Permian argillite, sandstone, and shale crosses Kinley Creek and is cut along strike by thrust faults. Cretaceous or Jurassic rocks, mostly quartzite, sandstone, and shale north of Omega Creek are locally intruded by Cretaceous monzodiorite (Reifenstuhl and others, 1998). Good placer prospects on McKinley Creek were reported in 1902, but their exact locations were not known (Collier, 1903). Claims were staked by McIntyre and Youngstrom in 1966 and the property was active during 1967 (Heiner and others, 1968). Mining claims were maintained in the late 1990's through 2003 by Richard Ott, who mined on Omega Creek (TN122) (Swainbank and others, 1998; Szumigala and Swainbank, 1999, Szumigala and others, 2001).
Workings: Prospecting reported in 1902. No known workings.
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:	TN123

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