Lucky Creek Prospect, Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Lucky Creek Prospect	Prospect
Kantishna Mining District	Mining District
Denali Borough	Borough
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: Lucky Creek is the local name of a west tributary of the Clearwater Fork of the Toklat River. Its junction with the Clearwater Fork is about midway between the mouths of Stampede Creek (to the south) and Little Moose Creek. The location is about 0.4 mile east-southeast of the center of section 25, T. 13 S., R. 15 W., Fairbanks Meridian, approximately at the position of the placer claims (Heiner and Porter, 1972, KX 66-122; Hawley and Associates, 1978).
Geology: The area drained by locally named Lucky Creek is underlain mostly by Birch Creek Schist (Bundtzen, 1981; Thornsberry, McKee, and Salisbury, 1984, fig. K-1). The creek is 2 miles long, and the placer claim location is about where it flattens out before entering the floodplain of the Clearwater Fork. Nothing is known of the character of the placer deposit; it reportedly contains stibnite as well as placer gold. The Upper Ridge (MM141) and Ridge Top (MM018) antimony mines are in the drainage area of Lucky Creek; erosion of those deposits would have introduced stibnite into the creek.
Workings: Placer gold claims were staked in Lucky Creek in 1968; they were still active in 1972 (Heiner and Porter, 1972).
Age: Holocene.

Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - Sb(?)
Development Status: Undetermined.
Deposit Model: Au-PGE placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	MM017

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