Trembley Creek; Kuyuktuvuk Creek Occurrence, Koyukuk Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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Trembley Creek; Kuyuktuvuk Creek Occurrence	Occurrence
Koyukuk Mining District	Mining District
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

This occurrence is located within Gates of the Arctic National Park. Alaska Kardex No. 031-51 (Kardex is a card file mining claim information system located at the State of Alaska DNR Public Information Center in Fairbanks).
Location: The occurrence is near the confluence of Trembley Creek and Kuyuktuvuk Creek about 1 1/2 miles west of the Dietrich River (NE1/4 sec. 19, T. 36 N., R. 10 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian). The location is accurate within a 1/2-mile radius.
Geology: Two claims were reported to have been located in 1963, and there is evidence of placer mining activity, principally along Kuyuktuvuk Creek (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1973; Dillon, 1987). Country rocks in the area are shown by DeYoung (1978) to be principally Devonian limestone and siltstone, Pennsylvanian and Mississippian limestone, dolomite, shale, and conglomerate of the Lisburne Group and Kayak Shale, and Devonian Hunt Fork Shale. No other information is available on this occurrence.
Workings: Indications of placer mining activity noted along Kuyuktuvuk Creek above the mouth of Trembley Creek (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1973; Dillon, 1987). Heiner and Wolff (1968) reported that claims were located at the mouth of Trembley Creek in 1963.
Age: Quaternary.

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

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