Independence Gold, Lead

Fairbanks district Livengood (18.8, 0.75)
MF-413, loc. 32 65°02'N, 147°28'W

Fracture zone in porphyritic granite mineralized with vein quartz; iron-
stained joint surfaces in country rock also carry gold. Fracture zone
becomes barren where it crosses contact from granite to schist. Gold,
pyrite, arsenopyrite, and galena present; about 2/3 of gold in sulfide
minerals. Assays show 0.19-1.84 oz/ton gold. Developed by 2 tunnels.
Probably has been minor production. See also Moonlight.

(Independence Cr.) Antimony
Fairbanks district Livengood (16.9, 0.3)

65°O0'N, 147°45'W

Sparse stibnite in shear zone in schist; no other data. See also Goodwin.

I.X.L. Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.2, 1.55)

65°04'N, 147°24'wW

Lode claim on which there may be gold. See also Pioneer (Chatham Cr.).

Jackson Antimony, Gold, Lead, Silver
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.0, 1.2)
MF-413, loc. 36 65°03'N, 147°26'wW

Several quartz veins parallel and others cut across schistosity of quartz-
ite schist and mica schist. Veins and country rock are all cut by many
faults, at least some of which were pre-ore. Some gold is free and some
is in sulfide minerals; sulfides identified are stibnite, jamesonite,
argentiferous galena, pyrite, and arsenopyrite. Deposits explored by
open cuts and several hundred feet of underground workings. No record

of production. Includes references to: Hess & Burnet(t), Silver King.

Jackson and associates Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.05, 1.05) approx.

65°02'N, 147°26'W approx.

Prospect pits on possibly barren quartz that cuts greenstone-like schists.

Johnson Antimony, Gold, Tin, Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.85, 1.5)
MF-413, locs. 38, 88 65°04'N, 147927'wW

In 1942 a placer cut on Willow Cr. exposed high-grade stibnite in several
parts of a wide quartz zone. Largest vein of stibnite (with occasional
quartz and other sulfides) was 6-18 in. wide and was traced for 75 ft.

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Zinc, copper, and lead oxides in quartz veins cutting poorly exposed calc-
arenite-argillite unit bounded on either side by dolomite. No mineralized
material in place; smithsonite in a boulder train on a west-facing ridge.

Occasional pods and fracture coatings of sulfides with malachite and zinc
oxide.

Unnamed occurrence Lead, Zinc

Tolovana district Livengood (20.15, 16.3)
65°S4'N, 147°11'W

Minor traces of galena and sphalerite in calcarenite.

Unnamed occurrence Manganese
Tolovana district Livengood (14.45, 15.8)

65°53'N, 147°59'wW

Disseminated manganite in quartz groundmass; chert breccia filling with
some clasts altered to a claylike material. Black botryoidal mineral (pre-
sumably psilomelane) in cross-cutting quartz veins.

Unnamed occurrence Zinc

Tolovana district Livengood (18.75, 16.1-16.2)
65°S4'N, 147°23'wW

“Traces of zinc oxide were found in brecciated exposures of the Tolovana
Limestone."

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(Vault Cr.) Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (16.85-17.2, 0.7-1.5)
MF-413, locs. 79, 80, 83 65°02'-65°04'N, 147941'-147°44'W

Bedrock probably all schist. Placers as much as about 200 ft deep. Near
mouth in Chatanika Flats alluvium is 319 ft thick; gold on false bedrock at
160 ft. Gold on upper creek coarse; 1/3 of pieces worth a dollar or more
(gold at $20.67). Most of mining before World War II was by drifting.
Mining from 1906 to as recently as 1940. Gold production, including that
from tributaries, through 1924 was about 113,000 fine oz. No data on com-
position of concentrates. See also (Chatanika R.).

Vetter(-Shelden) Antimony, Gold, Silver(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.3, 1.7)
MF-413, loc. 43 65°04'N, 147°22'w

Fissure vein with horses of iron-stained brecciated quartz and silicified
schist cuts schistose quartzite and quartz-mica schist; contains sulfides
(stibnite, jamesonite, and questionably identified arsenopyrite, freiberg-
ite, and pyrite) and gold. An unstated amount of gold and possibly some
antimony production in 1960's from open cut and shallow shaft. Minor ex-
ploration in 1970's.

Wackwitz (Cleary Summit) Antimony, Gold, Lead
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.0, 1.2)
MF-413, loc. 36 65°03'N, 147926'w

Quartz veins and mineralized zones in quartz-mica schist contain stibnite,
galena, and jamesonite. Gold present (probably determined by assay). An
unstated amount of antimony ore has been produced.

Wackwitz (Wyoming) Antimony, Gold, Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.0, 1.55)
MF-413, loc. 39 65°04'N, 147926'w

Quartz veins as much as 2 ft thick contain gold and kidneys of stibnite,
near which gold values are highest; scheelite in and adjacent to veins

and as a replacement shoot in limestone. Bedrock is quartz-mica schist,
quartzite, and thin limestone beds. Main (Wyoming) vein displaced 100 ft

to right by a fault. Gold (no data on production other than several thou-
sand dollars worth) and a little scheelite concentrate produced. Mining or
development work reported sporadically from 1909 to 1942; may have been some
in early 1950's. Well over 1,500 ft of workings on 3 levels. Includes re-
ferences to: Alaska Mining & Development Co., Goessman, Tanana Quartz (&)
Hydraulic (Mining Co.), Wyoming (Quartz Mining Co.).

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Mahan -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Mandich (& Jurich) -- see (Lillian Cr.)
Marcovich -- see Markovich

Marietta -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Marigold -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Markovitch -- see Markovich

Mars-Emerald -- see Alaska

Martin -- see Johnson

Mary -- see Anna-Mary, Woods

Mayflower -- see Ohio (Fairbanks Cr.)

Mazeppa -- see Butler & Petree

McCarthy (Alder Cr.) -- see McCarty (Alder Cr.)
McCarthy (Fairbanks Cr.) -- see McCarty (Pioneer)
McCarty & Ewers (Gold Mining Co.) -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)

McCarty & Lawson -- see McCarty (Pioneer)
McCarty, L. J., and associates -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)
McCarty Mining Co. -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)

McDougall -- see McCarty (Pioneer)
McGillvray & Ellis -- see Soo

McNeil (& Huddleson) -- see Branholm-Jenkins
(Mike Hess Cr.) -- see (Hess Cr.)

Miller -- see Chatham, Griffin

Million Dollar Corp. -- see Thompson & Burns
Mines Development Syndicate -- see (Livengood Cr.)
Minnie -- see Perrault

Minnie Ha-Ha -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Mintti -- see Markovich

Moonshine -- see Moonlight

Muchano -- see Gilmer

Muir -- see North Star (Skoogy Gulch)

Murphy -- see (Fairbanks Cr.)

Mynnti -- see Markovich

Nars (, Anderson & Gibbs) -- see Hi-Yu

Nelson -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Nerich, Jackson & Faulkner -- see White Elephant
Nevada -- see (Vault Cr.)

New Deal -- see Hidden Treasure (near Fairbanks)
Newsboy Extension -- see Newsboy

Newsboy Mining Co. -- see Emma, Newsboy

New York -- see Cleary Hill

Nickaloff -- see Robinson

Niggerhead -- see (Dome Cr.)

Nightingale, G. -- see Homestake

Nirige & Hershberger -- see Rainbow

Nordale (Corp.) -- see Homestake

Northern Commercial Co. -- see David

North Star (Alder Cr.) -- see McCarty (Alder Cr.)
North Star (Chatham Cr.) -- see Pioneer (Chatham Cr.)
Ohio (Little Eldorado Cr.) -- see Markovich
Oklahoma -- see Wackwitz (Wyoming)

Olive Creek Mines -- see (Olive Cr.)

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to a depth of 300 ft by shafts and 3 levels of drifts. Some of ore very
rich in gold; production (amount not known), 1910-12. Stibnite mined,
probably in 1916; some may also have been taken from a dump later.
Probable mill ore on dump in 1931 assayed 0.07-0.14 oz/ton gold. In-
cludes references to Friederich.

(Gertrude Cr.) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (10.9-11.1, 9.45)
MF-413, loc. 76 65°32'N, 148929'-148°30'W

Shallow bench and creek placers mined intermittently, 1915-18, 1930 to
1960's. Bedrock at mouth metabasalt; chert and silicified dolomite in
middle course; serpentinite near head. Gold (0.9 ppm) in massive, iron-
stained, silica-carbonate rock % mi above mouth. Moderate gold produc
tion; placer ground probably essentially minedout. Source of placer gold
in this drainage basin. Gold is fine, angular, and shotty.

Gilmer Antimony, Gold, Lead, Silver
Fairbanks district Livengood (17.4, 0.5)
MF-413, loc. 14 65°01 'N, 147939'w

Fracture or shear zone that has been traced for 600-700 ft is 3-5 ft wide
and contains shoots and kidneys of stibnite as much as 4 ft across. Some
fractured quartz cemented by stibnite. Some galena (argentiferous) also
present. Ore samples averaged 0.75 oz/ton gold and fromatrace to 1.96
oz/ton silver. A little antimony ore was mined in 1915. In 1942 about

2 tons of sacked high-grade stibnite was on the property.

Gilmore tunnel

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.85, 1.6)
MF-413, loc. 48 65°04'N, 147919'w

Tunnel driven from Gilmore mill to intersect workings of Mizpah and Ohio
(Fairbanks Cr.) mines. In 1942 there were 30 sacks of lead-copper-
antimony ore in the mouth of the tunnel; source not known. See also:
Mizpah, Ohio (Fairbanks Cr.).

(Glen Gulch) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (11.0, 9.4)
MF-413, loc. 67 65°32'N, 148°29'w

Fine, angular gold (a few pieces as much as0.05 oz) in 2-4 ft of gravel
on silicified limestone bedrock. Mining in 1916, 1931-34. See also
(Gertrude Cr.).

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McCarty (Pioneer) Antimony, Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.55, 1.55)
MF-413, loc. 46 65°04'N, 147°21'wW

Quartz veins 1-2 ft thick, some with gouge along one or both walls, carry
free gold and some stibnite. Other veins, 8-18 in. thick, carry much stib-
nite and jamesonite, Mine (mainly on Pioneer and Pennsylvania claims) pro-
duced gold worth $24,000 (about 1,160 fine oz) between 1910 and probably no
later than 1917. A little stibnite ore also was produced; in 1942 a little
remained on dumps. Workings consisted of several shafts (one was a 146-ft
incline), at least one level of drifts, and raises. Includes references to:
Black Warrior, Dorothy, Free Gold (Fairbanks Cr.), Harrietta, Henry Clay,
Hinton, I.B., Iron Mask, Laughing Water, Leroy, Marigold, McCarty & Lawson,
McDougall, Minnie Ha-Ha, Pennsylvania, Pioneer (Fairbanks Cr.), Russian
Kid, War Eagle, Willie. See also McCarty (Henry Ford); some of references
listed in Part B may apply to either mine.

Mizpah Antimony, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Tung-
sten

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.85, 1.6)

MF-413, loc. 48 65°04'N, 147°19'W

Quartz vein from 3 in. to 3 ft thick carries gold, scheelite, stibnite,
and, in a faulted zone, earthy wad and argentiferous galena. Ore richest
in gold where stibnite is present. Gold and scheelite seem to be mutually
exclusive, though in the same vein. Mine was worked 1912-18 and possibly
(through Gilmore tunnel) after 1931. Several hundred feet of underground
workings. A little scheelite produced in 1916; a little stibnite also was
mined, probably at about the same time. No data on total gold production;
ore reported to have averaged between $30 and $40 per ton (gold at $20.67).
Includes references to Black Joe. See also: Gilmore tunnel, Ohio (Fair-
banks Cr.).

Mohawk Antimony, Gold

Fiarbanks district Livengood (18.65, 1.2)
MF-413, loc. 29 65°03'N, 147928'w

Several quartz veins; ore contains gold, stibnite, pyrite, and arsenopyrite.
Report of osmiridium by owner not confirmed. At least 2 shafts and some
drifts. Gold ore (probably less than 100 tons total) mined in 1912 or
earlier and 1916-18. Includes references to: Heilig & Creighton, Rose.

Moonlight Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (18.85, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 33 65°02'N, 147927'wW

4-6 in. of crushed quartz and schist in fracture zone in quartzite schist
and granite. Gold and unspecified sulfide minerals in part of zone in

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Synonyms, Owners, Operators, and Claim Names

Alabama -- see Cleary Hill, (Vault Cr.)

Alaska Arctic Resources, Inc. -- see Nightingale, J.
Alaska Exploration Co. -- see (Fairbanks Cr.)

Alaska Mining & Development Co. -- see Wackwitz (Wyoming)
Algo Co. -- see Hi-Yu

Alpha -- see Woods

American Eagle -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)

Amy -- see Parker

Anchor -- see Chechako No. 1

Anderson (and associates) -- see Busty Belle
Anderson & Birch -- see Hoover

Anderson-Wackwitz -- see Busty Belle

Anna ~- see Anna-Mary

Antimony -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Apex -- see David

Arctic Alaska Fisheries & Enterprises, Inc. -- see Homestake
Aroostook -- see Perrault

Baltic -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Balzimer -- see Homestake

Bank -- see (Vault Cr.)

Barry -- see (Livengood Cr.)

BECS Corp. -- see Homestake

Big Chief -- see Soo

Big Jim -- see Jackson

Big Lead -- see North Star (Skoogy Gulch)

Bill Taft -- see Butler & Petree

Birch (&) Anderson -- see Hoover

Bishop -- see Whitehorse

Black Eagle -- see Scrafford

Black Joe ~- see Mizpah

Black Warrior -- see McCarty (Pioneer)
Blue Bell -- see Pioneer (Chatham Cr.)
Blue Lead -- see McCarty (Pioneer)
Blue Moon -~ see Pioneer (Chatham Cr.)
Bob -- see Newsboy

Bostrum & Wickstrom -- see (Wilbur Cr.)
B.P. -- see Butler & Petree

Bunnell -- see Woods

Burns -- see Chatham

Busch & Anderson -- see Hoover
California -- see Cleary Hill

Caribou -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)
Carlisle -- see Cleary Hill

Carnation -- see Soo

Center Star -- see North Star Extension
Central Star -- see North Star Extension
Centre Star -- see North Star Extension

Chatam -- see Chatham

Chatham Creek -- see Chatham

Chatham Creek Dredging Co. -- see (Chatham Cr.)

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an open cut and milled at nearby Cleary Hill mill [the reference report—
ing this (Brooks, 1923 (B 739), p. 30) is garbled]. Possible sources of
placer gold on all slopes of creek basin.

Billy Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (21.5, 2.7) approx.

65°07'N, 147°05'W approx.

Essentially barren quartz (some iron-stained along joints). Assays of
29¢/ton reported; no statement that value was in gold.

Bobbie Antimony, Lead, Silver
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.1, 1.5)
MF-413, loc. 41 65°04'N, 147°25'wW

Narrow stringer of nearly pure argentiferous galena; banded near walls
and in large crystals in center of vein. Needles of stibnite form kid-
neys in which quartz crystals are imbedded and some pyrite is included.
Prospect explored before 1912 by pits and an adit. No record of pro-
duction.

Bradley Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)

65°02'N, 147°928'W

Shallow shaft sunk in sulfide-bearing 2-ft-wide shattered and sheared
milky quartz vein with sparse sulfides. Adit driven 200 ft in mineral-
ized material; no distinct vein, but a few stringers and, at face, vein
material near a fault and some gouge. No data on which sulfides or on
possible gold content. See also North Star (Skoogy Gulch).

Branholm-Jenkins Antimony, Lead
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.8, 1.75)
MF-413, loc. 47 65°04'N, 147°20'W

Intermittent prospecting and some mining between about 1915 and 1929.
Quartz vein in quartz-mica schist contains arsenopyrite, jamesonite, and
galena; no data on probable gold and/or silver content. Included refer-
ences to: Leindecker, NcNeil (& Huddleson).

Burnet (Twin Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.8, 0.75)
MF-413, loc. 32 65°01'N, 147928'wW

Brecciated auriferous quartz veins in weathered granite bedrock of a bench
placer claim. Weathered bedrock was sluiced with placer gravel. See also
(Twin Cr.).

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Some ore from a quartz vein reported to have been mined and milled before
1912. Yielded about 0.53 oz/ton in gold.

Tolovana (Mining & Milling Co.) Antimony, Gold, Silver, Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.85, 1.5)
MF-413, loc. 38 65°O4'N, 147°27'W

Lode is stringers or veinlets of quartz cutting silicified schist. Min-
eralization is in quartz and schist and consists of gold, stibnite, arseno-
pyrite, scheelite, and pyrite. Analysis of a sample of gold showed fine-
ness of 792 Au and 180 Ag. Free gold is visible in both quartz and stib-
nite. Some of stibnite is bladed, some massive, and some disseminated.
Mine had extensive workings; 900 ft still accessible in 1949. Mining re-
ported spasmodically from 1910 to 1931. No data on total production; most
was probably before 1916. Includes references to: Scheuyemere, Tolovana-
Stibnite, Willow Creek-Tolovana Mining Co. See also: Chechako No. 1,
Johnson.

(Tolovana R.) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood

Central % quad.

All references to Tolovana R. are almost certainly to tributaries, including
Ester, Livengood, Olive, and Wilbur Creeks. See also: (Ester Cr.), (Liven-
good Cr.), (Olive Cr.), (Wilbur Cr.).

(Too Much Gold Cr. divide) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.8, 1.75)

65°04'N, 147°20'w

Thin quartz veins and silicified mica schist wall rock contain as much as
3.96 ppm Au.

(Trail Cr.) Gold(?)
Tolovana district Livengood

NEXSE quad.

Encouraging prospects for placer gold reported, 1910. Location on creek
not given.

(Treasure Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (16.6-16.95, 0.4-0.85)
MF-413, locs. 8, 81 65°00'~65°02'N, 147°43'-147°46'W

Gold discovered, 1906, and drift mined until about 1913. Deposit perman-
ently frozen, 80-200 ft deep, about 7 ft thick, and as muchas 225 ft wide.

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In 1912 a shaft was sunk 16 ft on a nearby quartz stringer that contained
stibnite. Placer concentrates contain cassiterite, scheelite, and (pre-
sumably) gold. Includes references to (Willow Cr., near Fairbanks). See
also Tolovana.

Kellen Antimony, Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.85, 1.6)
MF-413, loc. 48 65°04'N, 147°19'w

Small, low-tenor, auriferous quartz veins in blocky schistose quartzite.
A crushed and recemented quartz vein contains stibnite and oxidation pro-
ducts. Exploratory shaft and tunnel, but no production, before 1913.

(Kokomo Cr,) Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (21.0-21.25, 2.4-2.5)
MF-413, loc. 92 65°O7'N, 147°08'-147°09 'w

Placer gold discovered, 1921. Mining 1937-40. No other data. See also
Egan & Egan.

(Lillian Cr.) Antimony, Chromite, Gold, Mercury,
Nickel, Silver, Tungsten

Tolovana district Livengood (10.5-10.65, 9.1-9.15)

MF-413, locs. 3, 66 65°31'N, 148°32'-148934'W

Stream and bench placers; bedrock (graywacke, shale, and slate and
smaller amounts of limestone and greenstone) surface beneath benches is
irregular and slopes steeply toward the creek. Concentrates contain
angular coarse gold, magnetite, ilmenite, picotite, limonite, cinnabar,
scheelite, zircon, pyrite, stibnite, barite, and arsenopyrite. A vein
of stibnite is reported to have been uncovered during placer mining. A
mineralized zone in a cutbank contains stibnite and traces of cinnabar
and gold. A sample of serpentine contained small amounts of nickel sul-
fides and silicates. Cinnabar in decomposed graniticmaterial. Auri-
ferous arsenopyrite—quartz-scorodite veins contain as much as 48 ppm Au

and 2 ppm Ag. Placer mining began in 1915 and was being carried on as
recently as 1977.

(Little Eldorado Cr.) Gold, Tin, Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (17.95-18.5, 1.3-2.0)
MF-413, locs. 86, 87 65°03 '-65°06'N, 147930'-147°35'W

Mined from 1907 to 1941 with a few inactive years; some production, 1948-
54. Worked by underground drift mining in lower part of valley where
ground is about 85-175 ft deep, and by drift mining and later dredging

in upper part of valley. Bedrock is schist and creek heads in contact
zone of the Pedro Dome pluton. One of the more significant gold-produc-
ing creeks of the area; possibly some potentially minable ground remains

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at $20.67) mined from pits at some later time. Includes references to:
Center Star, Central Star, Centre Star.

Ohio (Fairbanks Cr.) Antimony, Gold, Lead, Silver
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.85, 1.6)
MF-413, loc. 48 65°04'N, 147°19'W

Auriferous quartz veins, at least one of which follows afault, are mainly
in schist. Sulfide minerals include stibnite, galena (probably argentif-
erous), pyrite, and arsenopyrite. Oxidized material from one shaft is re-
ported to have yielded a globule of silver. Mine developed by several
shafts (total at least 200 ft) and some drifts. 350 tons of ore (tenor
not known) milled in 1915. Includes references to: Connors & Stevens,
Early Bird, Gilmore & Stevens, Gilmore & Stevenson, Gray Eagle, May-
flower. See also: Gilmore tunnel, Mizpah.

Old Glory Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (11.95, 0.7)
MF-413, loc. 18 65°O1L'N, 149 35'W

Contact-metamorphic deposit of finely disseminated scheelite in quartz-
mica schist and quartzite near tongue of larger granodiorite intrusive
body; small granodiorite dike uncovered in prospect pit. Mineralized zone
3 to 4 ft thick; channel sample contained 0.48% WO3. Includes references
to Leslie (& Hawks).

Old Smoky Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (10.85, 8.95)
MF-413, Loc. 4 65°30'N, 148°31'w

Auriferous arsenopyrite-quartz veins in ferruginous quartzite near porphyr-
itic dikes contain gold (3-13 ppm as determined by atomic absorption;
1.6-7.0 ppm as determined by fire assay).

(Olive Cr.) Chromite, Gold, Mercury, Silver,
Tungsten

Tolovana district Livengood (10.85-10.9, 8.7-8.95)

MF-413, locs. 4, 72 65°29'-65930'N, 148°30'-148°31'W

Bedrock is largely slaty shale and sandstone; chert, argillite, and ser-
pentinite near head; intruded by now highly altered felsic rocks. Cinnabar
in altered rock; explored by about 270 ft of adits and tunnels; some
material reported to run 20-30 1b mercury per ton. Some mercury probably
was recovered (Hudson property). Nearby an altered and brecciated felsic
rock in chert and argillite contains gold and a little silver; pyrite and
arsenopyrite present. Creek was a major placer-gold producer 1914-63;
probably little production 1964-77. Some gold on sandstone bedrock and

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Markovich Antimony, Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (18.0, 1.3)
MF-413, loc. 22 65°03'N, 147934'W

Badly crushed iron- and manganese-stained quartz contains stibnite and
arsenopyrite; sample assayed 0.202 oz/ton in gold. At least 2 veins have
been worked for stibnite. 200 tons of stibnite ore reported to have been
shipped in 1916 and about 16% tons in 1949 (most from old dumps). A
little gold ore reported to have been mined and milled in 1918. Well
over 500 ft of workings. Includes references to: Hindenburg, Ohio
(Little Eldorado Cr.), Marcovich.

May Florence Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.45, 0.65)

65°O1'N, 147°31'w

Brecciated schist and blue gouge between faults. In 1913 abandoned shaft
and tunnel at prospect. May not be any gold.

McCarty (Alder Cr.) Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (20.45, 2.05)
MF-413, loc. 52 65°06'N, 147914 'W

Vein 12-15 ft wide with schist horses. Mineralization along vein walls

and in horses; quartz in veins much fractured; little sulfide mineraliza-
tion. Developed by tunnel 160 ft long and several crosscuts. Consider-
ing the amount of work it seems safe to assume that some gold is present.

McCarty (Henry Ford) Antimony, Gold, Zinc
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.55, 1.55)
MF-413, loc. 46 65°04'N, 147°21'W

Quartz vein, as much as about 5 ft thick, contain gold, stibnite, james-
onite, arsenopyrite, and a little sphalerite. Henry Ford vein is displaced
by fissure that contains America Eagle vein. One of the most productive
gold mines in district; mined sporadically from 1911 to 1917 and practic-
ally continuously from 1927 to as recently as 1942; no data on amount of
gold production; 1,225 tons of ore mined in 1929-30 averaged more than 1.04
oz/ton in gold. A few tons of antimony ore produced during World Wars I
and II. More than 1,100 ft of underground workings. Includes references
to: American Eagle,; Caribou; El Toro No. 3; Golden Eagle; Henry Ford; Mc-
Carty & Ewers (Gold Mining Co.); McCarty, L. J., and associates; McCarty
Mining Co.; Schreiber. See also McCarty (Pioneer); some of references
listed in Part B may apply to either mine.

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Production more than 12,000 0z; possibly as much as 24,000 oz. Fineness
about 860. Lode gold (no other data given) near mouth of a tributary.

(Troublesome Cr.) Gold, Lead, Mercury, Tin
Rampart district Livengood (1.8-2.95, 6.35-8.9)
MF-413, locs. 61, 62 65°22'-65°30'N, 149°36'-149945 "Ww

Some mining about 1912 or earlier and probably until about 1918; no activ-
ity in 1931; records of mining are scanty. Creek appeared long inactive
in 1969. Concentrate from just below mouth of Union Cr. (MF-413, loc. 62)
contained barite, iron minerals, picotite, pyrite, cinnabar, garnet, gal-
ena, zircon, and cassiterite. Bedrock is chiefly Paleozoic sedimentary
and metasedimentary rocks; pegmatitic granite cut by creek just above
Union Cr. Creek drains quartz monzonite plutons and associated dikes in
the Wolverine and Sawtooth Mountains area.

(Twin Cr.) Gold, Tin
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.8, 0.95)
MF-413, loc. 89 65°02'N, 147°28'w

Bédrock is quartzite schist and porphyritic granite. Most of placer
ground was shallow (12 ft is deepest mentioned). Cassiterite common in
concentrates. Mined sporadically from 1903 to 1927. No data on total
production; as of 1910 was about 5,800 fine oz of gold. See also Burnet
(Twin Cr.).

U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. Bismuth, Gold, Tin, Tungsten

Fairbanks district Livengood
SESE quad.

Major placer-gold operator of Farbanks district (production 1929-48 was more
than 2,850,000 fine oz of gold) with extensive operations (mainly dredging)
on Cleary, Dome, Fairbanks, Fish, Little Eldorado, and Pedro Creeks and
Chatanika R. Began preparatory work in 1925 and dredging in 1928; dredges
operating in 1956. Channel samples indicate that dump of all dredge con-
centrates contains 0.1% W03, 2.23% Sn, and 0.01% Bi. The company also
operated McCarty (Henry Ford) lode mine 1937 to 1940 or later. Includes
references to Fairbanks Exploration Co. Alaska Gold Corp. now is the
Alaskan operating company for all former operations and properties of U.S.
Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. See also: (Chatanika R.), (Cleary Cr.,
near Fairbanks), (Dome Cr.), (Fairbanks Cr.), (Fish Cr.), (Little Eldorado

Cr.), McCarty (Henry Ford), (Pedro Cr.), U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining
Co. (Fairbanks quad.).

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Hi-Yu (Mining Co.) Antimony, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc

Fairbanks district Livengood (20.1, 1.75)
MF-413, loc. 51 65°04'N, 147°17'W

Many quartz veins (some along faults and most offset by faults) contain
free gold and sulfides, including stibnite, argentiferous galena, arseno-
pyrite, pyrite, and sphalerite. Some oxidation products. Some silici-
fied schist between veins might constitute low-grade gold ore. Consider-
able surface enrichment in places; 6.29 oz/ton in gold for some ore.
Stibnite in kidneys and irregular veins. Stibnite has been mined, but
this is primarily a gold mine. Well over a mile of workings; had own
mill. Operated from 1913 to 1940 except for 1 or 2 years and in a few
years between 1941 and 1951. Mill production through 1931 was about
$252,000 (equivalent to about 12,200 fine oz of gold) from 8,200 tons of
ore. After 1936 sulfide concentrates were shipped to smelter. Probably
one of the three most productive lode mines in the Fairbanks district;

no data on total production. Includes references to: Crites & Feldman,
Dorando, Feldman, Gibbs, Helen S., Insurgent, Nars (, Anderson & Gibbs),

Saucy, Summit, Sunnyside (near Fairbanks), Teddy R, Wolf (Too Much Gold
Cr.), Yankee Doodle.

Hoel Bros., Johnson & Witmer Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (17.0, 0.7)
MF-413, loc. 11 65°O1'N, 147°42'w

Prospect developed by 280 ft of shaft and 60 ft of drift in about 1910.
One vein is 30 ft wide with low gold values; another, which is richer,
is 8-24 in. wide. No record of production.

Homestake (Mining Co.) Antimony, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver,
Zinc

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.45, 1.65)

MF-413, loc. 45 65°04'N, 147°22'W

Several mines have operated on various parts of this property at various
times from 1910 to as recently as 1970. Deposits are quartz veins with
gold and sulfide minerals, including jamesonite, stibnite, argentiferous
galena, freibergite, pyrite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite.
Some of gold ore was quite rich (25 tons yielded 5.48 oz/ton in free
gold). Workings consisted of about half a mile of crosscuts and drifts,
an inclined shaft, and stopes. Mines were very wet, so very little min-
ing could be done below crosscut level. Also was some mining from open
cuts. Gold, silver, and antimony have been produced; most if not all of
gold in sulfide concentrates was lost. Total production not know; through
1931 was the equivalent of about 2,900 oz of gold. Includes references

to: Christina, Horton & Solomon, Jamesonite, Kawalita, Keystone, Nordale,
Rexall.

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About 1,765 oz of placer gold (as mined; fineness about 822) produced
in 1908. Any other production was probably included with that from
Fairbanks Cr. See also (Fairbanks Cr.).

Crosscut Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.85, 1.5)

65°04'N, 147°27'W

Prospect, presumably for gold. See also Tolovana.

Cunningham Antimony, Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.0, 1.6)
MF-413, loc. 40 65°04'N, 147°20'W

Small vein contains much arsenopyrite and some stibnite. Samples said
to carry much gold. Short adit and winze; no production. See also
Sunrise (Cleary Cr.).

David Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 30 65°02'N, 147°28'W

Veins, all less than 2 ft thick, in silicified schist contain gold. Vein
on which the most work was done and which was the source of the only re-
ported production is a continuation of the vein on the adjoining Rainbow
claim. The other veins contain arsenopyrite as well as gold. Amount of
production, all in 1917-18, not reported; was from 100-ft adit and stope
65 ft long. Includes reference to Apex. See also Rainbow.

(Dawson Cr.) Gold
Rampart district Livengood (0.15, 8.25-8.3)
MF-413, loc. 57 65°28'N, 149°59'wW

A large tributary of Hunter Cr. that drains an area underlain by rocks of
the Permian-Triassic Rampart Group. Small-scale placer mining, 1911-13,
and probably in some other years. See also (Hunter Cr.)

(Deep Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (21.1, 1.55)
MF-413, loc. 91 65°04'N, 147909 'W

Placer gold discovered, 1913. More recent data probably included with
those for Fairbanks Cr. See also (Fairbanks Cr.).

(Dome Cr.) Gold, Tin, Tungsten

Fairbanks district Livengood (17.15-18.0, 0.85-1.7)

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had own mill. Mining reported intermittently from 1910 to 1936. Gold
produced in 1912-14 and 1925-31 was between 6,775 and 7,980 fine oz. In-
cludes references to: Carnation, Chief, H & K, Hawkins, Heath & Kerns, La
Rose, McGillvray & Ellis, Reliance (Mining Co.), Spaulding-Ronan-Cunning-
ham, Stevens & Martin, Waterbury, Waverly, Wild Rose.

(Spruce Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (17.8, 1.3) approx.
MF-413, loc. 21 65°03'N, 147936'W approx.

Lode said to carry about 0.58 oz/ton in gold; reported to have a shaft
150 ft deep; work in 1912 or earlier.

S.S. Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 30 65°02'N, 147°29'w

Gold prospect in schist close to intrusive rocks. Published data are for
general area; prospect is assumed to be an auriferous quartz vein.

(Steamboat Pup) (Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.45, 0.5)
MF-413, loc. 89 65°00'N, 147931'w

Mining in 1912-15 and probably other years. Small-scale open-cut mining
in 1966-68. Amount of production not known; many data on both mining and
production probably included with those for PedroCr. Pay streak said to
be narrow. Placer ground is shallow in lower to middle part of stream

course where the mining took place. See also (Pedro Cr.).

(Steel cr.) Gold(?), Tungsten

Tolovana district Livengood (11.5, 8.25) approx.
MF-413, loc. 74 65°28'N, 148925'W approx.

No evidence of appreciable mining or prospecting, but there are reports of
considerable wolframite in a placer concentrate. Some placer gold probably
present also, as it occurs in a similar geologic setting in the next small
creek to the west. Bedrock in area is Cretaceous graywacke and shale,
hornfelsic near the small felsic dikes that are poorly exposed on hills
just west of the head of the creek.

(Steese Highway, Mile 17.5) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.65, 0.7)

65°01'N, 147°29'w

Small quartz diorite pluton exposed in road cuts. South border is strongly

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Faulted quartz vein about 18 in. wide prospected by shallow shaft and 100-ft
incline in 1913. No data on gold content, if any.

Quemboe Bros. Antimony, Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.4, 1.5)
MF-413, loc. 44 _ 65°04'N, 147922'w

Fractured quartz vein cemented by sulfides in a soft schist country rock;

hanging wall of vein is marked by a fault. Explored by a 60-ft shaft and
2 short drifts. Assays of vein show 1.09-1.55 oz/ton gold. Sulfides are

stibnite, pyrite, and arsenopyrite. No record of production.

Rainbow Gold, Lead, Tungsten, Zinc
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 30 65°02'N, 147°28'w

Schist and quartzite cut by granite dike; quartz vein about 18 in. thick
follows a fault and is definitely younger than the granite. Minerals in
vein include pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, sphalerite, scheelite, and gold.
Several hundred feet of underground workings. Mining, probably little more
than 500 tons total production, 1911 to probably 1913. Sample across vein
where 10 in. wide contained 1.11 oz/ton gold; sample across 2-in. band con-
tained 10.26 oz/ton. Fineness about 839. See also: David, Whitman & Mur-
ray.

(Ranney Hollow) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (10.8, 8.3) approx.

65°28'N, 148°31'W approx.

Next creek west of Steel Cr. Small amount of placer gold reported.

Rob (& Roy) Antimony, Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (20.1, 1.75) approx.
MF-413, loc. 51 65°04'N, 147°17'W approx.

Shear zone 30 ft wide in schist. 2 mineralized zones in shear zone contain
quartz, pyrite, gold, and stibnite. Also some irregular shoots and kidneys
of stibnite. Rich gold ore discovered in 1914 and mined through early 1918.
100-ft shaft and at least 2 levels of drifts. Includes references to: Rob-
Rye, Roy. See also Hi-Yu.

Robinson Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.45, 0.65)

65°02'N, 147°31'w
Fault breccia of highly altered quartz diorite. Explored by shallow cuts

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Charles Gold(?)

Fairbanks district Livengood (20.9, 2.0)
MF-413, loc. 54 65°05'N, 147°10'w

Ledge reported to be 18 in. wide. References listed in Part B contra-
dictory; probably was no production and quite possibly there was no gold.
See also (Coffee Dome).

(Chatanika R.) Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (16.85-18.5, 0.8-2.4)
MF-413, loc. 88 65°04'-65°07'N, 147930'-147944'W

Placer gold produced from 1907 through 1963 by drift mining (1911-38)

and dredging (beginning in 1928); some periods of inactivity.. Ground is
65-200 ft deep along south side of valley between Cleary and Vault Cr's.;
most mining was at and below mouth of Cleary Cr. and near mouths of Dome
and Vault Cr's. Bedrock is schist; gravel largely quartzite, igneous
rocks, and vein quartz. Sources of gold probably in Pedro Dome area 4-6
mi to south. More than 60,000 fine oz of gold with a fineness of about
852 mined 1907-10; later production not separately reported.

Chatham Antimony, Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.4, 1.5)
MF-413, loc. 44 65°04'N, 147923 'W

Quartz vein with gold, but very few sulfides, is 6-8 in thick; hanging
wall slickensided. Cut by shear zone 10-15 ft wide containing shoots and
kidneys of stibnite as much as 12 ft wide. Considerably more than 1,000
ft of underground workings. Operated as a gold mine, 1912-13, 1934, and
possibly 1936; ore mined in 1912 ran 1.21-1.94 oz/ton gold. Worked for
antimony, 1915-16, to a depth of 120 ft; at least 100 tons of ore shipped;
another 8 tons from dump shipped in 1942; ore ran about 39% Sb. Includes
references to: Chatam, Chatham Creek, Chatham Mining Co., Tanana Quartz
Mining Co.

(Chatham Cr.) Antimony, Gold, Tin, Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.05-19.15, 2.55-2.7)
MF-413, loc. 88 65°04'N, 147925'W

Bedrock mainly schist; granitic rock near head. Placer mining 1903-34;
open cuts until about 1927 and dredges thereafter. No data on total pro-
duction; about 14,500 fine oz through 1910. Reports indicate fineness of
851 (1905) and 818 (1913). Gold from near head of creek was rough. Stib-
nite has been found in veins in schist and was common on piles of dredge
tailings. Concentrates contained scheelite and cassiterite as well as
gold and stibnite.

Chechako No. 1 Antimony, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver,

Zinc

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Burnet (west of Twin Cr.) Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (18.95, 1.0) approx.
65°02'N, 147°26'W approx.

Coarse gold reported to have been found in a small pit dug in slide rock.

Burnet Galena Antimony, Lead, Silver
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 30 65°02'N, 147928 'W

Flat-lying body of quartz with cubic cavities with limonitic material

(probably after pyrite) contains lenses of argentiferous galena accom—
panied by jamesonite and secondary pyromorphite and cerussite. Country
rock is quartz diorite intruded by granite porphyry. In 1931 there was

an old shaft, an open cut, and a caved adit; sacks of galena—jamesonite—
cerussite ore on dump.

Busty Belle (Mines, Inc.) Antimony, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum,
Silver, Tungsten, Zinc

Fairbanks district Livengood (18.0, 0.45)

MF-413, loc. 20 65°01'N, 147°34'W

Sulfide veins and gold-sulfide-quartz veins cut granodiorite-quartz
diorite and adjacent schist (some in roof pendents) in contact zone of
Pedro Dome pluton. Early development in 1911-12 and possibly for a few
more years; silver-bearing galena and possibly some gold mined, but no
record of amount of production. Small-scale surface prospecting and min-
ing on 1950's; about 60 tons of hand sorted galena-jamesonite ore shipped
and 25 tons stockpiled. Some surface and underground exploration in
1966-67. Mine was operated as a tourist attraction in 1973 and probably
other years. Ore minerals reported include argentiferous galena, stib-
nite, gold, pyrite, chalcopyrite, scheelite and powellite (as thin coat-
ings and in thin calcite veinlets along joints and fractures), sphaler-
ite, tetrahedrite, and molybdenite. Includes references to: Freeman &
Scharf, Silver Fox, Silvertone.

Butler (& Petree) Antimony, Gold, Lead, Zinc
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.1, 1.5)
MF-413, loc. 41 65°04'N, 147925'W

Shear zone about 6 ft wide in mica schist contains pyrite, arsenopyrite,
galena, sphalerite, and stibnite; associated quartz veins also contain
these minerals; tourmaline in border zones near veins. In oxidized zone
gold is free; in sulfides lower down. Several hundred feet of under—
ground workings before 1912; a long adit driven in 1931 to undercut older
workings probably did not develop any ore. May have been some production,
but there is no record of any. Included references to: B.P., Mazeppa,
Reese, Rex (Mining Co.).

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(Hoosier Cr.) Gold(?)

Tolovana district Livengood(?)
NE%SEXquad.(?)

Prospects said to have been found in 1910; location not known; said to be
in upper Beaver Creek drainage. May be in Circle quad. May also have
been known by another name.

Hoover Antimony, Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.5, 0.75)
MF-413, loc. 26 65°O1'N, 147°30'w

Quartz veins in sheared and brecciated zones in schist contain stibnite,
pyrite, arsenopyrite, and gold. Mill tests reported to have recovered
about 0.39 oz/ton in gold. Developments included 390-ft tunnel and shal-
low shaft (caved by 1931) and bulldozer trenching in 1968. Bedrock in
area is quartz-mica schist, quartzite, and migmatite. Includes references
to: Anderson & Birch, Birch & Anderson, Busch & Anderson.

(Hunter Cr.) Copper, Gold, Lead, Mercury, Tin
Rampart district Livengood (0.0-0.2, 8.3-8.35)
MF-413, loc. 57 65°28'N, 149958'-150°00'w

Bedrock is Permian-Triassic slate, quartzite, and tuffaceous greenstone
of the Rampart Group and Tertiary sandstone and conglomerate. Stream
cuts through high bench gravels east of Minook Cr. Bench on south side
of valley slopes toward creek. Pay streak is 8-10 ft of gravel and top
few feet of shattered bedrock; 20-30 ft of muck over gravel. Concen-
trates contain gold, magnetite, ilmenite, hematite, barite, Pyrite, pic-
otite, cinnabar, galena, cassiterite, and native copper. Most of mining
was by hydraulicking and on a fairly small scale. Began in 1896 and con-
tinued with few interruptions to as recently as 1940. See also (Hunter
Cr.) Tanana quad.

(Idaho Bar) Gold
Rampart district Livengood (0.1, 7.85)
MF-413, loc. 58 65°27'N, 149959'W

Deposit of auriferous Pliocene(?) gravel as much as 100 ft thick capping
high bench about 1,000 ft higher than mouth of Little Minook Cr. [Tanana
quad. ] was prospected and drift mined in 1913, the late 1920's, and the
1930's; some work reported as recently as 1975. Some of ground cleaned
ran as high as $1 (about 0.048 oz) in gold per bedrock foot. Concen-
trates contained coarse and shotty gold, ilmenite, hematite, magnetite,
zircon, and garnet. Bedrock is chert and greenstone similar to that at
Hunter Cr.; Permian-Triassic Rampart Group. Lack of water greatly ham-
pered mining.

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similar parallel veins in both hanging and foot walls. At least one
intersecting vein is largely stibnite. Veins are crushed, cross folia-
tion of schist country rock, and are complexly faulted and displaced,
which makes exploration, development, and mining difficult. Thin lime-
stone beds in schist contain scheelite. Cassiterite in weathered vein
material. Metallic minerals in veins are gold, stibnite, arsenopyrite,
pyrite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, jamesonite, covellite, and
scheelite. Major lode-gold mine in district; mining reported in 1909-15,
1927, 1929-42, 1949. Total production not known; was worth about one
million dollars as of 1931. Fineness determinations in 1913 showed 818
gold and 169 silver. Several thousand feet of underground workings and
a mill on property. A few tons of stibnite mined during World War II.
Mill has operated on ore from other mines at times. Includes references
to: Alabama, California, Carlisle, Cleary, Cleary Hill (Alaska) Mining
Co., Free Gold (Cleary Cr.), Idaho, New York, Paupers Dream, Rhoads (&)
Hall, Rhodes (&) Hall, Roads & Hall, Snow Drift, Texas, V.

Antimony, Gold

Livengood (19.0, 1.2)
65°03'N, 147°26'W

(Cleary Summit)

Fairbanks district

near contacts with small quartz mon-
much as 17.4 ppm Au.

Altered and sheared zones in schist
zonite body contain stibnite and as

(Coffee Dome) Gold, Lead, Silver

Fairbanks district
MF-413, loc. 56

Livengood (20.35, 2.2) approx.
65°06'N, 147°09'wW approx.
Prospect with gold, lead, and silver. No other data.

Colbert & Warmbold Gold

Livengood (19.0,
65°03'N, 147°25'w

Fairbanks district
MF-413, loc. 42

1.2)

Small gold-bearing quartz veins in schist; Prospecting in early 1930's.
No further development reported.

Cornell Gold(?)

Livengood (18.9,
65°03'N, 147927'W

Fairbanks district 1.25)

Adit, shallow shafts, and pits. Probably no ore was found.

(Crane Cr.) (Gulch)

Fairbanks district
MF-413, loc. 91

Gold

Livengood (20.4, 1.75)
65°04'N, 147°14'W

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schist; none in part in granite. Grab sample of possible ore on dump con-
tained 0.158 oz/ton gold. Prospect pits and at least 170 ft of underground
workings. No record of production. Includes references to: Moonshine,
Sunlight, Sunshine, Twilight. See also Independence.

Moore-Sheldon Antimony
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.7, 1,35)
MF~413, loc. 37 65°04'N, 147928'w

Stibnite and pyrite in sulfide-bearing marble and calc-schist truncated by
a crushed zone.

(Moose Cr.) Gold
Rampart district Livengood
SWYNE quad.

Small amounts of placer gold reported.

Mother Lode (Dome Cr.) Copper
Fairbanks district Livengood (17.4, 1.0)
MF-413, loc. 15 65°02'N, 147937'W

Graphitic limestone with disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite, and arseno-
pyrite. Exploration by 2 shafts 147 ft and 215 ft deep. Probably a minor
and uneconomic deposit.

Mother Lode (Willow Cr.) Antimony, Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.7, 1.35)
MF-413, loc. 37 65°03'N, 147°28'w

Horizontal stibnite vein at contact between sericitized granite porphyry
dike and mica schist. Very litte gold (no more than 0.05 oz/ton).

(Myrtle Cr.) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (10.5. 9.35)
MF-413, loc. 64 65932'N, 148933'w

Gold reported to have been mined in 1916 probably was reconcentrated from
bench deposit of Livengood Cr. See also (Livengood Cr.).

Newsboy Antimony, Copper, Gold, Zinc
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.7, 1.35)
MF-413, loc. 37 65°03'N, 147°28'W

Deposit consists of quartz veinlets, and veins 4-14 ft wide, in crushed,

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

SUMMARIES OF DATA ON AND LISTS OF REFERENCES TO
METALLIC AND SELECTED NONMETALLIC MINERAL OCCURRENCES
IN THE LIVENGOOD QUADRANGLE, ALASKA

SUPPLEMENT TO OPEN-FILE REPORT 76-819

PART A -~ SUMMARIES TO AUGUST 1, 1981

By
Edward H. Cobb

Open-File Report 81-1342A
1981

This report is preliminary and has not been
reviewed for conformity with U.S. Geological
Survey editorial standards.


Silver King -- see Jackson

Silver Ridge Mining Co. -- see Scrafford
Silvertone see Busty Belle

Snow Drift see Cleary Hill

Somerville -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Spall & Livengood -- see (Livengood Cr.)
Spaulding (& Brumbaugh) -- see Soo
Spaulding-Ronan-Cunningham -- see Soo
Stadelman -- see (Amy Cr.), (Livengood Cr.)
Standard Mines, Ltd. -- see (Livengood Cr.)
Steel -- see Steil

Stevens -- see Woods

Stevens & Martin -- see Soo

Stibnite -- see Johnson

Stier -- see (Chatanika R.)

Summit -- see Hi-Yu

Sunlight -- see Moonlight

Sunny -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Sunnyside (near Fairbanks) -- see Hi-Yu
Sunnyside (near Livengood) -- see (Livengood Cr.)
Sunrise (Treasure Cr.) -- see Scrafford
Sunshine -- see Moonlight

Sunshine No. 2 -- see (Olive Cr.)

Tanana Quartz (&) Hydraulic Mining Co. -- see Chatham, Wackwitz (Wyoming)
Tanana Quartz Mining Co. -- see Chatham
Tanana Valley Gold Dredging Co. -- see (Fish Cr.)
Teddy R. -- see Hi-Yu

Texas -- see Cleary Hill

Tolovana-Stibnite -- see Tolovana
Tonaskate -- see (Treasure Cr.)

Triangle -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Twilight -- see Moonlight

Twin Lode -- see Independence

Union -- see I.X.L.

V -- see Cleary Hill

Vergil -- see Jackson

Vernetti -- see Scrafford

Vetter Bros. -- see Vetter(-Shelden)
Victor -- see (Vault Cr.)

Victoria -- see (Treasure Cr.)

Virginia -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Wackowitz Bros. -- see Dome View, Wackwitz (Wyoming)
Wackowitz Bros. & Nelson -- see Wackwitz (Wyoming)
Wackwitz Bros. -- see Dome View, Wackwitz (Wyoming)
Wackwitz, F. -- see Alaska

Wall -- see (Amy Cr.)

War Eagle -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Warren -- see Anna-Mary

Washington -- see (Our Cr.)

Waterbury -- see Soo

Waverly -- see Soo

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Egan & Egan Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (20.95, 2.3)
MF-413, loc. 55 65°06'N, 147°10'W

4 or 5 quartz veins and crushed zone in biotite schist; a 20-in.-Llong
sample across a vein contained 0.357 oz gold per ton. A little work was
done on the prospect in 1930-31. Includes reference to lode near Kokomo
Cr.

Emma Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.9, 1.25)
MF-413, loc. 35 65°03 'N, 147°27'W

Quartz vein 4-12 in. wide contains visible free gold. 10 tons of se-
lected ore milled gave return of $38 (about 1.84 oz) per ton. Green-
stone and schist country rock. Developed with inclined shaft and 100
ft of drifts. Abandoned soon after 1924. Includes references to Over-
ga(a)rd. See also Cheyenne.

Empire Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.2, 1.55)
MF-413, loc. 42 65°04'N, 147°24'W

14 tons of ore, presumably gold, mined in 1912.

(Ester Cr.) Gold, Mercury
Tolovana district Livengood (11.2, 8.85)
MF-413, loc. 73 65°30'N, 148°28'W

Bedrock 20 ft deep where being mined in 1916; 90 ft deep farther down-

stream. Concentrates contain gold, magnetite, ilmenite, picotite, cin-
nabar, limonite, and zircon. Prospecting or mining, 1915-16, 1928-34,

and about 1960. Includes references to (Lucky Gulch) if not definitely
to Goodluck Cr.

Eureka Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (20.75, 2.05)
MF-413, loc. 53 65°06'N, 147°12'w

Reported that a 50-ft shaft was sunk and that there was a showing of 3 ft
of ore. Some ore reported to have been milled at Chena in 1911. See
also (Coffee Dome).

Excelsior Antimony, Gold(?), Lead, Silver(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.95, 1.7)
MF-413, loc. 49 65°04'N, 147°18'W

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MF-413, locs. 84, 85 65°02'-65°04'N, 147934'-147941'W

Drift mining from 1905 to 1941; dredging from 1955 to 1959. Essentially
inactive since 1960. Gold concentrated in upper 2 mi of course and with~
in 2 mi of mouth; in the intervening 2-3 mi gold content is very low or
absent. Ground is 30-200 ft deep; pay streak was 130-165 ft wide and
about 5 ft thick. Production through 1920 was 394,245 fine oz of gold;
data for later production are lacking, but this was one of the major
gold-producing creeks of the district. In addition to alloyed silver,
scheelite was abundant and cassiterite present in concentrates. The

gold in the upper valley apparently was derived from lode sources near
the Pedro Dome pluton; gold near mouth may be, in part at least, related
to placer deposits on the south side of the Chatanika R. See also (Chat-
anika R.).

Dome View Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (18.55, 1.1)
MF-413, loc. 27 65°03'N, 147°29'-147930'W

Quartz vein with visible gold averages 30 in. in width and cuts across

structure of quartz-mica schist near contact with quartz diorite. Some
of vein is brecciated and iron stained. Adit 145 ft long. No recorded
production. See also Mohawk.

(Dominion Cr.) Gold(?)
Tolovana district Livengood(?)

NEXSEX quad.(?)

Prospects said to have been found in 1910; no other mention of this
creek, the location of which is uncertain. Creek may have also been
known by another name.

Earth Resources Copper, Molybdenum
Tolovana district Livengood (10.5, 8.1)

65°27'N, 148°34'wW

Copper-molybdenum prospect discovered in 1972; was drilled at several
locations. Work discontinued; no activity in following years. Geologic
setting is Cretaceous clastic rocks intruded by felsic dikes(?).

Egan (Twin Cr.) Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.65, 0.7)
MF-413, loc. 31 65°01'N, 147929'wW

Thin (less than 6-in.-thick) pegmatite dikes that cut granodiorite con-
tain sparsely scattered grains of scheelite. Minor development. Deposit
very low grade.

Alo


Fay -- see Chatham

Feldman -- see Hi-Yu

Fish -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Fish Creek Mining Co. -- see (Fish Cr.)

Fiske Bros. & Wickstrom -- see (Amy Cr.)
Foster & Hungerford -- see Alaska, Empire
Franklin -- see Chechako No. 1, Mohawk, Woods
Franklin and associates -- see Old Glory
Franklin Lode -- see Woods

Franklin No. 2 -- see (Livengood Cr.)
Frederichs -- see Gilmer

Free Gold (Cleary Cr.) -- see Cleary Hill
Free Gold (Fairbanks Cr.) -- see McCarty (Pioneer)
Freeman & Scharf -- see Busty Belle
Friederich -- see Fredericks

Fursteneau -- see Alaska

Gan -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Genki -- see Alaska

Georgia -- see (Our Cr.)

Gibbs -- see Hi-Yu

Gilmore & Stevens -- see Gilmore tunnel, Ohio (Fairbanks Cr.)
Gilmore & Stevenson -- see Gilmore tunnel, Ohio (Fairbanks Cr.)
Gladstone -- see Alaska

Glen Gulch Mining Co. -- see (Gertrude Cr.)

Goepfert Galena -- see Goepfert

Goessman ~- see Wackwitz (Wyoming)

Gold Dollar -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Golden Eagle -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)
Goldstone -- see Alaska

(Goldstream Cr.) -- see (Hess Cr., South Fork)
Goyett -- see Hidden Treasure (near Fairbanks), Mohawk
Goyett, Boyd & Shaw -- see Mohawk

Gray Eagle -- see Ohio (Fairbanks Cr.)
Greenback -- see Mohawk

Gustafson Bros. -- see Cleary Hill, Wackwitz (Wyoming)
Ha-Ha -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Haley & Magnussen -- see (Wilbur Cr.)

H & K -- see Soo

Hanot Bros. -- see (Pedro Cr.)

Hard Luck -- see (Vault Cr.)

Hard Scrabble -- see (Chatanika R.)

Harrais -- see Independence, Moonlight
Harrietta -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Harris -- see Independence

Hawkins (and associates) -- see Soo

Healy -- see (Goodluck Cr.)

Heath & Kerns -- see Soo

Heilig & Creighton -- see Mohawk

Helen S. -- see Hi-Yu

Helen W. -- see Gilmer

Henry Clay -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

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Scrafford Antimony, Gold, Lead, Silver

Fairbanks district Livengood (16.75, 0.3)
MF-413, loc. 9 65°O0'N, 147°45'w

Shear zone 3-15 ft wide in quartz-mica schist contains iron-stained quartz,
kidney-shaped masses of stibnite (largest mined was 40 ft x 11 ft x 6 ft),
gold (best reported assay was about 0.2 oz/ton), argentiferous galena (one
assay showed 8 oz/ton)., pyrite, and oxidation products. Principal antimony
mine in district; about 1,600 tons of ore mined, mainly in 1946. Mine op-
erated 1915-16, 1926, 1968-70, and possibly in a few other years. Mined
from open cuts, adit 300 ft long, and 3 raises. In 1942 about 300 tons of
low-grade (10-20 percent Sb) material was on dump. Gold and silver may
have been recovered at some tine. Includes references to Black Eagle and
to an unnamed stibnite prospect (Smith, 1913 (B 525), p. 196).

Silver Dollar Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.45, 0.65)
65°OL'N, 147°31'w

Tiny quartz veinlets along joint and fracture planes in schist. A few
cavities filled with limonitic material. No visible gold or sulfides.
Adit driven 25 ft.

Sky High Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.3, 1.7)
MF-413, loc. 43 65°04'N, 147°24'w

Decomposed, iron-stained material may be a gossan; contains a little gold.

Solomon Antimony
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.45, 1.65)
MF-413, loc. 45 65°04'N, 147°22'w

Quartz vein 3-4 in. thick contains much stibnite. No other data.

Soo (Mining Co.) Antimony, Copper(?), Gold, Lead,
Silver

Fairbanks district Livengood (18.15-18.25, 1.0)

MF-413, locs. 23, 24 65°02'N, 147932'-147933'w

Quartz veins in shear zones in schist near contact with Pedro Dome pluton
contain free gold, stibnite, arsenopyrite, auriferous tetrahedrite, and
galena; copper sulfides may be present. Fineness of a 50-oz sample of gold
was 824}; Au and 149 Ag. Considerable stibnite, some in large lenses
columnar and fibrous masses, together with fine granular aggregates; 8

tons of stibnite ore left on dump when mine closed was sold in 1942. Mine
development consisted of several shafts and extensive underground workings;

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Westonvich -- see Chechako No. 1
Westonvik -- see Chechako No. 1
Westonvitch -- see Chechako No. 1
Wilcox -- see Gilmer

Wild Rose -- see Soo

Willie -- see Homestake, McCarty (Pioneer)
Willow Creek -- see Tolovana
(Willow Cr., near Fairbanks) -- see Johnson

Wolf (Too Much Gold Cr.) -- see Hi-Yu

Wolf (Wolf Cr.) -- see Homestake

Wolverine -- see Jackson

Wyoming (Quartz Mining Co.) -- see Cleary Hill, Wackwitz (Wyoming)
Yankee Doodle -- see Hi-Yu

Your Jim -- see Jackson

Zimmerman (Kokomo Cr.) -- see (Kokomo Cr.)

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and long trenches. No data on gold content, if any, or on possible presence
of sulfides. Some of material on dumps is iron-stained. See also: I.X.L.,
(Little Eldorado Cr.).

(Ruth Cr.) Antimony, Chromite, Gold, Mercury,

Monazite, Silver, Tungsten
Tolovana district Livengood (10.65-10.7, 9.1-9.25)
MF-413, locs. 3, 65 65°31'N, 148°31'-148933'W

One of the major placer-gold-producing streams of the Livengood area; no
data on amount of production. Gold at base of gravel and in top 2 ft of
bedrock; paystreak 30-40 ft wide and 5-20 ft deep. Mining from 1916 to
1940's; small-scale mining at various times in 1960's and 1970's. Probably
essentially mined out. Concentrates contain much scheelite, some magnetite,
and minor amounts of cinnabar, chromite, stibnite, pyrite, arsenopyrite,
and monazite. Bedrock is a mixture of many types of Devonian sedimentary
rocks (including much black crystalline limestone) and a variety of intru-
sive rocks. On spur west of creek quartz veinlets carry pyrite, arseno-
pyrite, and gold; some samples showed as much as $12 a ton in gold and $2
a ton in silver (1916 prices). Many grains of chromite scattered through
mineralized rock; some exposed by excavation about 1916. Stibnite vein
exposed and reburied in placer cut. Some slightly auriferous breccia at

a lode prospect found in late 1960's.

(Sawtooth Mtn.) Antimony, Gold

Tolovana district Livengood (3.45, 6.6)
MF-413, loc. 2 65°23'N, 149°31'wW

Stibnite lode near top of mountain discovered and prospected in 1942-43

or possibly earlier. Exploration and small tonnage of ore mined in 1948.
Mining continued in 1951-52. Some ore assayed 50% or greater Sb; minor
amounts of arsenic and gold associated in parts. Stibnite was in roughly
circular vertical pipe or vein about 10 ft indiameter; intruded slaty shale
near contact with quartz monzonite pluton. Shaft on ore was 30 ft deep

in July 1951, and reportedly was later deepened to about 90+ ft. High-

and medium-grade stibnite ores were hand sorted (roughly 150 tons); opera-
tional difficulties and drop in price of antimony prevented marketing ore
in 1952, but some may have been shipped since then.

Schaefer Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.95, 1.5)
65°04'N, 147°19'wW

Flat-lying quartz stringer in steely dipping decomposed and iron-stained
schist. 150-ft tunnel. No data on tenor of material. No record of any
production.


Fairbanks district Livengood (18.7, 1.35)
MF-413, loc. 37 65°04'N, 147°28'W

Stibnite, argentiferous galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, arseno-
pyrite, and gold in veins, shear zones, and as replacement bodies in
marble and calcareous schist. Veins and mineralized zones 3-15 ft thick.
Prospect was explored by open cuts, 2 adits, and 3 shafts, which had
caved by 1931. Probably was some production, but none was recorded. In-
cludes references to: Eldorado Mining (& Milling) Co., Westonvi(t)ch.

See also Tolovana.

Cheyenne Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.9, 1.25)
MF-413, loc. 35 65°03'N, 147°27'wW

Float quartz carries about half an ounce of gold per ton. Shallow pits
in frost-riven material did not find bedrock source. May be confusion
between Cheyenne and Jackson in some of references listed in Part B.

(Cleary Cr., near Fairbanks) Antimony, Gold, Tin, Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.45-19.15, 1.55-2.4)
MF-413, loc. 88 65°04'-65°07'N, 147925'-147930'W

Bedrock schist. Creek and its major tributaries head in mineralized zone
that extends from Last Chance Cr. to Fairbanks Cr. With tributaries, was
most productive placer-gold stream in Fairbanks district; from 1903
through 1924 production was about 1,129,650 fine oz worth $23,346,900.
Most was from drift mines working a pay streak 150 ft wide and with an
average thickness of 5 ft. Dredges also operated 1924-41 and 1946-63.
Placer ground essentially mined out, but small-scale mining in 1975 was
reported. Concentrates contained gold, stibnite, cassiterite, scheelite,
pyrite, garnet, and rutile. A lens of stibnite 75 ft long was uncovered
during placer mining near mouth of Willow Cr. See also (Chatanika R.).

(Cleary Cr., near Livengood) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (12.1, 8.5) approx.

65°29'N, 148°20'W approx.

Gold prospects reported in 1915. Apparently ground was very low grade
as there are no later reports of prospecting or mining. Bedrock is
chiefly Devonian clastic rocks.

Cleary Hill (Mines, Inc.) Antimony, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver,
Tin, Tungsten, Zinc

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.0, 1.55)

MF-413, loc. 39 65°04'N, 147926'wW

Principal vein averages about 1 ft in thickness; maximum is 3 ft; smaller

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in the lower part of the valley. Production from 1907 through 1926 was
about 116,800 fine oz of gold. One 20-oz nugget reported. Concentrates
also contain cassiterite, scheelite, and wolframite.

(Livengood Cr.) Antimony, Chromite, Gold, Monazite,
‘ Tin, Tungsten

Tolovana district Livengood (10.5-11.3, 9.3-9.75)

MF-413, locs. 5, 64 65°31'-65°34'N, 148°25'-148°34'W

Gold discovered in 1914; most is in a buried channel under a bench on the
northwest side of and parallel to creek; bench has a linear extent of at
least 4 mi, an average width of about 125 ft, and with an average depth
to bedrock of about 80 ft. Bedrock mainly chert, silicified limestone/
dolomite, and greenstone. Gold is in basal part of gravel and in weath-
ered, fractured top of bedrock. Other minerals in concentrates include
magnetite, ilmenite, picotite, hematite, Pyrite, cassiterite, scheelite,
and monazite. Small stibnite vein in bedrock was uncovered in a drift
mine; some stibnite said to have been shipped out by parcel post during
World War I. Placer mining by drift and open-cut methods between 1914 and
1977, with probably a few inactive years. Lower part of creek dredged
1940-41 and 1946 to about 1950. Large-scale mining underway in 1976-77.
One reserve estimate based on data from 640 drill holes indicates about
17 million yd3 of placer gravel that would average about 0.02 oz/yd3 in
gold. Geologic history of placer deposits not fully understood; lode
sources probably mainly on southeast side of creek; drainage divide be-
tween upper Hess Cr. and Livengood Cr. shifted back and forth several
times by stream piracies. Livengood Cr. has been the largest placer gold
producer in the Tolovana district; probably accounted for at least half
of the 330,000 fine oz attributed to the entire district.

(Lost Cr.) Asbestos
Tolovana district Livengood (15.6, 17.35)

65°58'N, 147°49'w

Cross-fiber chrysotile veinlets in float rock; source unknown.

(Lucille Cr.) (Gulch) Chromite, Gold

Tolovana district Livengood (11.25, 9.6)
MF-413, loc. 68 65°32'N, 148°27'W

Considerable prospecting before 1916 and in 1934 reported; probably was
some in other years. No record of mining. Chromite and chrome spinels
reported to occur in placers; from this and the work put into prospecting
it seems certain that some gold was found. Thick overburden and poor
water supply.

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ft of muck 4s mi above mouth, the current (1976) upstream limit of mining.
Bedrock is Cretaceous shale, siltstone, and graywacke; small quartz monzon-
ite body near head of creek and possibly some felsic dikes.

(Wildcat Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livenggod (16.9, 0.6)
MF-413, loc. 82 65°OL'N, 147°43'w

Low-grade gold-bearing gravels for about half a mile above mouth. A little
placer mining reported, 1908-15.

(Wolf Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.15-19.4, 1.85-1.9)
MF-413, loc. 88 65°05'N, 147923'-147925'W

Mining started in 1903 continued until 1915; also active 1937-62; possibly
some later work. Gold is bright; some is very rough. Found ip base of
gravel and top 2 ft of bedrock. Ground 4-10 ft deep near mouth and as much
as 60 ft deep farther upstream. Production 1903, 1908-10 was about 1,600
fine oz; fineness about 864. Lode source probably in veins in headward
part of creek. Placers probably largely mined out.

(Willow Cr., near Livengood) Gold
Rampart district Livengood (11.2, 11.1) approx.
MF-413, loc. 63 65°38'N, 148°24'wW approx.

Placer gold mining reported, 1924. In Hess Cr. basin.

(Wolf Cr. divide) Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.55, 1.55)
65°04'N, 147921 'w

Quartz veins and altered schist wall rock in old prospect trenches carry
as much as 2.87 ppm Au.

(Wolverine Mtn.) Ant imony

Rampart district(?) Livengood (0.9, 5.9) approx.
MF-413, loc. 1 65°20'N, 149°53'W approx.

Stibnite-bearing mafic dike. Occurrence may be on part of mountain in
Hot Springs district.

Woods Antimony, Gold, Lead
Fairbanks distruct Livengood (15,1, 11.25)
MF-413, loc. 16 65°02'N, 147935'W

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Explored about 1911; no record of production. Quartz veins carry free
gold, arsenopyrite, pyrite,, stibnite, and galena. Veins pinch and swell,
some massive, some shattered and sugary. Clay gouge, iron and manganese
staining. Includes references to: Alpha, Omega. See also: Independence,
Scrafford.

Yellowjacket Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.95, 1.7) approx. (?)

65°04'N, 147°18'W approx. (7?)

Report of some winter work, probably in 1914-15. Ore may have been
milled. See also Whitehorse.

Zimmerman (Twin Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.65, 0.7)
MF-413, loc. 31 65°0L'N, 147°29'w

Silicified crushed zone SW of a shear zone with 11 ft of clay gouge con-
tains a little arsenopyrite and as much as 0.08 oz/ton gold. Quartz dior-

ite on other side of shear zone is barren. Exposed in placer cut and prob-
ably never developed.

Zimmerman (near Twin Cr.) Gold, Silver
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.85, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 33 65°02'N, 147927'w

Sulfide-bearing material contains as much as $12 in silver and $4 in gold
per ton (1913 prices). May be on continuation of lode of Rainbow mine.

Unnamed occurrence Asbestos
Tolovana district Livengood (16.05, 11.8)

65°39'N, 147947'wW

Slightly sheared, blocky, dark-green serpentinite with minor fiber veinlets
(Light green on weathered sheared surface).

Unnamed occurrence Chromite
Tolovana district Livengood (15.9, 11.25)
MF-413, loc. 7 65°37'N, 147°48'w

Scree rock sample is sheared black chromitite; contains 12.8% Cr.

Unnamed occurrence Copper, Lead, Zinc
Tolovana district Livengood (21.0, 16.5)

65°55'N, 147°04'w

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some on false bedrock 80 ft above true bedrock. Concentrates contain
coarse gold, magnetite, ilmenite, plentiful cinnabar, picotite, limonite,
scheelite, chromite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, and zircon. Includes references
to: Hudson, Sunshine No. 2.

(Ophir Cr.) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (21.35, 6.9)
MF-413, loc. 93 65°22'N, 147°05'w

Coarse gold (largest nugget about 0.21 oz) discovered in 1910. Sporadic
small-scale mining and prospecting for the next several years. See also
(Nome Cr.).

(our Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (15.65-15.75, 0.45-0.55)
MF-413, locs. 77, 78 65°OL'N, 147°52'~147953'W

Very little mining; probably less than 250 oz gold produced. Production
reported in 1908 only. Where mined depth to bedrock is 75 ft; much more
father downstream and at mouth.

Parker Chromite, Nickel
Tolovana district Livengood (11.75, 8.8)
MF-413, loc. 6 65°30'N, 148°23'w

Nickel in silicates, spinels, alloys, and sulfides; and chromite in alpine-
type serpentinites. Nickel assayed as muchas 0.42%. Similar deposits
occur along east-northeast-trending serpentinite belt between West Fork of
Tolovana R. and Beaver Cr. Potential for a large low-grade nickel-chrom-
ium reserve. Poorly explored.

(Pedro Cr.) Gold, Tin
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.45-18.8, 0.4-0.95)
MF-413, loc. 89 65°00'~65°02'N, 147°28'-147°31'wW

Site of original discovery of placer gold in district, 1902. Depth to
bedrock 8-40 ft. Concentrates contain gold, magnetite, garnet, rutile,
pyrite, and cassiterite. Mining was by drifting, open cuts, dredges; from
1903 to as recently as 1958. No mining reported, 1917-25. No data on
total production; through 1910 was about 60,500 fine oz of gold. Data on
mining frequently combined with those for Goldstream Cr. (Fairbanks quad.).
Lode source of gold apparently in Pedro Dome area. See also (Pedro Cr.)
Fairbanks quad.

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Anaconda Co. Lead, Zinc

Tolovana district Livengood (18.65, 16.3)
65°54'N, 147924'W

Altered volcaniclastic breccia contains galena, sphalerite, and secondary
smithsonite in gossans. 87 mining claims staked.

Anna-Mary Antimony, Gold, Lead, Silver
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.2, 1.55)
MF-413, loc. 42 65°04'N, 147°24'w

Lode 4-8 ft wide consists of 1-6 ft of crushed schist and 1-2 ft of clay
gouge; lenticular masses of crushed iron-stained quartz with galena and
arsenopyrite on dump. Material high in silver. Sample cut in 1931
across 5 ft at bottom of 15-ft shaft assayed 46¢/ton (1931 prices); some
gold undoubtedly present, but how much of value in gold and how much in
silver not known. Metallic minerals recognized are stibnite, limonite,
argentiferous arsenopyrite, and probably argentiferous galena. Another
lode on property was not explored.

Banner Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.45, 1.65)
MF-413, loc. 45 65°04'N, 147°22'w

Ore carrying free gold reported. Shaft was caved and partly filled by
1912. See also Homestake.

(Beaver Cr.) Gold(?)
Tolovana district Livengood(?)

E. Cen. part of quad.(?)

Placer gold reported to have been found in basin in 1919. May have been
in part of basin in Circle quad. Probably does not refer to Nome Cr.

(Bear Cr.) Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (20.9, 1.15) approx.

65°02'N, 147°10'W approx.

Prospecting in 1909 reported; no data on results.

(Bedrock Cr.) Gold, Tin, Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.95, 1.6)
MF-413, loc. 88 65°04'N, 147°926'w

Placer gold probably mined in early 1900's and possibly in late 1950's.
Cassiterite and scheelite in concentrates. Bedrock uncovered in placer
apparently contained some auriferous quartz veins that were mined from

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Omega -- see Woods

Oregon -- see (Vault Cr.)
Oro Fino -- see Newsboy
Oro Grande -- see Newsboy

Ott & McGowon -- see Mizpah
Our Jim -- see Jackson

Overga(a)rd -- see Emma

Paupers Dream -- see Cleary Hill

Pennsylvania -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Pilgrim -- see Newsboy

Pinnacle -- see Cheyenne

Pinska -- see Tolovana

Pioneer (Fairbanks Cr.) -- see McCarty (Pioneer)
Pioneer Co. -- see Pioneer (Chatham Cr.)

Pioneer Discovery -- see Pioneer (Chatham Cr.)

Pioneer (Quartz) Mining Co. -- see Pioneer (Chatham Cr.)

Poz & Contardi -- see Markovich
Quinn --- see Scrafford

Radak -- see (Ruth Cr.)

Ready Bullion -- see (Livengood Cr.)
Recorder -- see (Dome Cr.)

Red -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Reese -- see Butler & Petree
Reliance (Mining Co.) -- see Soo

Rex (Mining Co.) -- see Butler & Petree
Rexall -- see Homestake

Rhoades-Hall -- see Cleary Hill
Rhoads (&) Hall -- see Cleary Hill
Rhodes (&) Hall -- see Cleary Hill
Roads &Hall -- see Cleary Hill
Robinson & Drouin -- see David
Robinson & Lieman -- see Hoover
Rob-Rye -- see Rob & Roy

Rock Run -- see Dome View

Rogach -- see Markovich

Rogash -- see Markovich

Rose -- see Mohawk, Pioneer (Chatham Cr.)
Roth & Maddocks -- see David
Rowley-Shumeff -- see Nightingale, J.
Roy -- see Rob & Roy

(Ruby Cr.) -- see (Ruth Cr.)

Russian Kid -- see McCarty (Pioneer)
Saucy -- see Hi-Yu
Scheuyemere -- see Tolovana

Scheuyemeress -- see Tolovana
Schreiber -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)
(Seattle Cr.) -- see Old Glory
Shakespeare -- see (Dome Cr.)

Sierra -- see (Vault Cr.)

Silva (& Co. ) -- see (Livengood Cr.)
Silver Fox -- see Busty Belle

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Henry Ford -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)

Hess & Burnet(t) -- see Jackson

Hess, Douglas & Lowe -- see (Gertrude Cr.)

Hidden Treasure (near Livengood) -- see (Livengood Cr.)
Hindenburg -- see Markovich

Hinton -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Holke -- see Pioneer (Chatham Cr.)

Homestead -- see (Vault Cr.)

Hope -- see (Chatanika R.), Homestake

Horton & Solomon -- see Homestake

Hudson -- see (Olive Cr.)

I.B. -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Idaho -- see Cleary Hill, (Little Eldorado Cr.)
Idaho Mining & Leasing Co. -- see (Little Eldorado Cr.)
Inspiration -- see Soo

Insurgent -- see Hi-Yu

Iron Mask -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Isabel -- see (Vault Cr.)

Isabella -- see (Vault Cr.)

Italy -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Jack -- see Newsboy

Jamesonite -- see Homestake, McCarty (Pioneer)
Johnson & Martin -- see Johnson

Jupiter-Goldstone -- see Alaska

Jupiter-Mars (Consolidated Mining Co.) -- see Alaska
Jurich -- see (Lillian Cr.)

Katherine -- see Emma

Kawilita -- see Homestake

Key -- see Anna-Mary

Keystone (Mines, Inc.) -- see Hi-Yu, Homestake, McCarty (Henry Ford),
McCarty (Pioneer

La Rose -- see Soo

Last Chance -- see Dome View

(Last Chance Cr.) -- see (Little Eldorado Cr.)

Laughing Water -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Le Boyteau -- see (Goodluck Cr.)

Leindecker -- see Branholm-Jenkins

Lemon -- see McCarty (Alder Cr.)

Leroy -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Leslie (& Hawks) -- see Old Glory

Lietrim -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Lillian -- see (Lillian Cr.)

Lime -- see McCarty (Alder Cr.)

Little Jim -- see Jackson

Livengood & Hudson -- see (Gertrude Cr.), (LillianCr.), (Livengood Cr.),
(Olive Cr.), (Ruth Cr.)

Livengood Cinnabar Co. see (Olive Cr.)

Livengood Placers, Inc. -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Luckman & Co. -- see (Amy Cr.)

Luckman & West -~ see (Amy Cr.)

(Lucky Cr. (Gulch) -- see (Ester Cr.), (Goodluck Cr.)

Lucky Lad -- see Newsboy

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Goepfert Gold, Lead

Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 30 65°02'-65°03'N, 147°28'W

2 or more prospects; references confusing. At one prospect a short adit
follows a thin auriferous quartz vein in granite near contact with schist.
At another a short adit was driven on a ledge containing galena. No min-
ing reported. Includes references to Goepfert Galena.

(Gold Mountain Cr.) Gold(?)
Tolovana district Livengood(?)

NEXSEX quad.(?)

Prospects reported to have been found in 1910. No further data. Location
of creek not known. May be in Circle quad. Probably also known by some
other name.

(Goodluck (Lucky) Cr.) Chromite, Gold, Mercury, Niobium, Rare-
éarth elements, Tin, Uranium
. Tolovana district Livengood (11.5-11.7, 9.75-9.8)
MF-413, locs. 70, 71 65°33'N, 148924'-148925'W

Chert and silicified limestone apparently separated by a small body of
diorite or greenstone. In 1916 or earlier a shaft sunk 60 ft to bedrock
found some gold just above bedrock. Mining reported in 1918, 1934, and
1939. Concentrates contain gold, chromite, chrome spinel, limonite, hem—
atite, magnetite, ilmenite, cinnabar, cassiterite, and a niobium-titanium-
uranium-rare earth mineral of the euxenite-polycrase series. Includes
references to (Lucky Cr.) (Gulch) if obviously to this stream.

Goodwin Antimony
Fairbanks district Livengood (16.9, 0.3)
MF~413, loc. 10 65°00'N, 147945'W

Lenses of massive stibnite as much as 3-4 ft wide in crushed schist that
contains some pyrite; same ore zone as at Scrafford-mine. Developed by
adit and inclined shaft. Some ore may have been mined and shipped in
1916. A little high-grade ore was on dump in 1942; sample contained
32.95% Sb. Some production (amount not stated) in 1968-69; may have been
from ore on dump. Includes references to: Eagle, (Eagle Cr.). See also
Scrafford.

Governor Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.95, 1.7)
MF-413, loc. 49 65°04'N, 147918 'W

Shaft sunk 70 ft on a nearly vertical vein about a foot wide. Fine-
grained igneous rock, probably granite, said to carry $10-$15 in gold

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Harris & Brown Antimony

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.4, 1.5)
MF-413, loc. 44 65°04'N, 147923 'W

50-ft shaft sunk on a steeply dipping vein. Quartz brecciated and frag-
ments cemented in matrix of crushed quartz; similar rock with matrix of
stibnite also on claim. Sulfides deposited in late stage of vein for-
mation. See also Vetter(-Shelden); close by if not on the same ground.

Herschberger, Beall & Phipps Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.85, 1.5) approx.
MF-413, loc. 38 65°04'N, 147927'W approx.

Group of claims on Willow Cr. Some rich ore (assumed to be gold) taken
out in 1910. See also Tolovana.

(Hess Cr.) Gold
Rampart district Livengood
N% quad.

Gold found in basin as early as 1892 and a little recovered from a gulch
near head of creek in 1893. Gold has been found on bars 40 mi below
forks. Has been prospecting, but no mining except on South Fork. In-
cludes reference to (Mike Hess Cr.). See also (Hess Cr., South Fork).

(Hess Cr., South Fork) Gold
Rampart district Livengood

SWENEX quad.

Some of gravel carries gold, but not in continuous pay streaks. See
also: (Alabam Cr.), (Moose Cr.).

Hidden Treasure (near Fairbanks) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.55, 1.3)
MF-413, loc. 28 65°03'N, 147°30'W

Developed and mined, 1910 to about 1914. Long inactive by 1931, and no
known exploration since. Nonpersistent quartz gash veins in a west-tren—
ding mineralized fault zone in schist; largest veinabout 3 ft wide.

Hirschberger & Zimmerman Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.85, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 33 65°02'N, 147°27'W

Ore shipped, 1911. Vein said to be 1-5 ft wide. No other data. See also
Zimmerman (near Twin Cr.).

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(Alabam Cr.) Gold
Rampart district Livengood (11.9, 10.35) approx.
65935'N, 148°22'W approx.

Good prospects of fine gold reported to have been found in 1915, but no
further mention of mining or prospecting. About a mile above mouth of
creek bedrock is 52 ft deep. Bedrock in area is mainly Ordovician chert.

Alaska Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.2, 1.55)
MF-413, loc. 42 65°04'N, 147°24'W

Several quartz veins, including one that may be in a slide block, as
much as several feet thick; very few sulfides. A few tons mined before
1915 milled out at 1.45 to 1.94 oz/ton gold. Property explored by 2
adits and a 125-ft shaft with 112 ft of drifts from it (caved by 1931)
and numerous pits and trenches. Bedrock lower Paleozoic or Precambrian
schist. Includes references to: Fursteneau, Genki, Gladstone, Jupiter-
Mars.

Alaska Flyer Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (17.95, 0.85)
MF-413, loc. 17 65°02'N, 147934'W

30-ft shaft sunk on an auriferous quartz vein in schist near contact
with Cretaceous-Tertiary granodiorite in about 1912. No report of more
recent activity.

(Alder Cr.) Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (20.65, 1.75-1.85)
MF-413, loc. 91 65°04'-65°OS'N, 147°12'w

Tributary of Fairbanks Cr. on which placer ground was mined in 1912,
1915, 1940, and probably other years. Production probably reported with

that from Fairbanks Cr. See also (Fairbanks Cr.).

(Amy Cr.) Antimony, Chromite, Gold, Lead
Tolovana district Livengood (11.4, 9.7)

MF-413, loc. 69 65933 'N, 148°26'W

Bedrock in lower part of valley mainly chert, dolomite, and limestone
with some argillite and basalt and a small granite body; in upper part

of valley mainly basaltic rocks and serpentinite. Placer gold mined in
most years from 1918 to 1968; no data on amount of production, but creek
was one of the most productive in the district. Most of mining in bench
east of creek and at mouths of tributary gulches. Ground 25-100 ft deep;
pay streaks 40-160 ft wide. Concentrates contain gold, magnetite, limon-
ite, chromite and chrome spinel, pyromorphite, and stibnite.

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(Walnut Cr.) Gold

Fairbanks district Livengood (20.75-20.85, 1.8-1.9)
MF-413, loc. 91 65°OS'N, 147°11L'w

Coarse gold (one nugget containing about 2.2 fine oz reported) recovered
from shallow ground, 1906-08, 1912. Production 1906-08 was about 420 fine
oz. Fineness of gold was 822. Any other production probably included with
that from Fairbanks Cr.

(Washington Cr.) Gold(?)
Tolovana district Livengood

SWYSE, quad.

Prospecting, 1909; no confirmed positive results; some pay reported.

White Elephant Lead, Silver
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.95, 1.0)
MF-413, loc. 34 65°02'N, 147°26'w

Argentiferous galena accompanied by a little pyrite and quartz in flat
lenses parallel to foliation of schist. Was some mining before 1913;
presumably silver and possibly lead were sold. Developed by a 20-ft adit.

Whitehorse Antimony, Gold, Lead
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.95, 1.7)
MF-413, loc. 49 65°04'N, 147°18'wW

Auriferous quartz vein; footwall contains brecciated mass of rock cemented
by stibnite and galena. Porphyritic granite dikes nearby. Some ore mined
from pit and probably milled in about 1913.

Whitman & Mirray Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 30 65°02'N, 147°28'w

Ore milled in 1910. 2 shafts, 400 ft of drifts and crosscuts. This is
the only reference to this property by this name; it may well have been
known by another name in later years. See also Rainbow.

(Wilbur Cr.) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (11.95, 8.2-8.25)
MF-413, loc. 75 65°27'-65°28'N, 148°22'w

Gold prospects found in 1915, 1921.- Mining probably began in about 1926
and continued on a small scale into the 1940's, and sporadically until at
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iron-stained schist; minable over widths of 8-12 ft generally. Gold and
stibnite are common, and chalcopyrite and sphalerite are present; consider-
able arsenopyrite and pyrite. Extensive workings on 5 levels to a depth of
at least 350 ft. Production was probably large, but records were lost.
Mined from about 1910 to 1913 and from 1930 to at least 1935, and possibly
in other years; ore processed in their own mill. Tenor of gold ore re-
ported to have been about 1.94 to 5.03 oz/ton; ore in Newsboy Extension
said to have yielded about 0.73 oz/ton. Includes references to Newsboy
Extension.

Nightingale, J. Antimony, Lead, Silver
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.35, 0,55)
MF-413, loc. 25 65°OL'N, 147931'w

Massive silver-bearing galena with stibnite in stockwork and veins in an
altered quartz diorite-quartz country rock. Considerable surface prospect-
ing by pits and trenches; no known production. Discovered in about 1912;
additional work in late 1960's.

(Nome Cr.) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (21.35-21.7, 6.9)
MF-413, loc. 93 65°22'N, 147°02'-147°05 'w

Most of mining and all of dredging were in part of Nome Cr. in the Circle
quad. Gold first found, 1910; ground about 15 ft deep. Coarse gold near
mouth of Ophir Cr. Small-scale mining as recently as 1968. Bedrock
quartzite and phyllite. Lode source of placer gold probably to south and
southeast. See also (Nome Cr.) Circle quad.

North Star (Skoogy Gulch) Antimony, Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 30 65°02'N, 147°28'w

Mineralized zone of faulted schist, altered dike rocks (probably granitic),
and quartz veinlets is possibly 75 ft wide. Boulders containing arsenopy-
rite and stibnite on a dump. Zone has average gold content of probably
less than 0.2 oz/ton. No record of production.

North Star Extension Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 30 65°02'N, 147°29'W

Quartz veins 1-6 in. thick in quartzite schist cut by aplite and porphyritic
granite dikes yielded gold worth $5,000 (about 240 fine oz). At old Central
Star shaft was sunk 45 ft in schist near intrusive rocks, 175 ft of drifts
run, and some ore mined and milled in 1916. About a ton of $35 ore (gold

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Introduction

This report was prepared as a supplement to a 1976 report which
summarized data on mineral occurrences in the Livengood quadrangle, Alas-
ka (Cobb, E. H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other
than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Livengood quadrangle,
Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-819, 241 p.). As a re-
sult of suggestions from users of the series of which the 1976 report is a
part, this supplement is released intwo parts: Part A, which presents sum-
maries of data to August 1, 1981, and Part B, which consists of reference
lists for each occurrence.

In Part A data from most reports released by the Geological Survey,
the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geo-
physical Surveys between the cut-off date (January 1, 1976) for the original
report and August 1, 1981 have been incorporated in rewritten or new sum-
maries where appropriate. For each occurrence described in Part A the name,
U.S. Bureau of Mines mining district, reference that has the occurrence
plotted on a map on a scale of 1:250,000 (if there is one), list of mineral
commodities, and location data are in the same format as in the 1976 report.
Also included is a list of synonyms, owners, operators, and claim names.

In both parts citations are in standard bibliographic format with the
exception that references to reports and maps in numbered publication
series also show, in parentheses, an abbreviation for the report or map
series and the number of the report or map. Abbreviations used are:

AOF Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-
File Report

B U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin

BMB U.S. Bureau of Mines Bulletin

c U.S. Geological Survey Circular

GC Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (and
predecessor State agencies) Geochemical Report

Ic U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular

OF U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report

MF U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map

P U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper

RI U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations

TDM Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Pamphlet

USBM OF U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report

In Part B citations to the principal references used in preparing sum-
maries in Part A are preceded by an asterisk. The form of citation used in
the reference list for each occurrence is considered sufficient identifi-
cation for each numbered report or map to be found easily in most libraries.
Complete references to reports without identifying numbers are listed at
the end of Part B.

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sheared, altered, and iron stained. Vein quartz, 0.5 ft thick, in gouge
zone; gold values of as much as 2.7 ppm in altered quartz diorite adjacent
to vein.

Steil Antimony
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.7, 1.35)
MF-413, loc. 37 65°04'N, 147928'W

Narrow quartz veins in greenstone(?) contain some stibnite and less pyrite.
No data on possible gold content. Includes reference to Steel.

Sunrise (Cleary Cr.) Antimony, Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.0, 1.6)
MF-413, loc. 40 65°O4'N, 147°26'wW

Veins of quartz and gouge with included schist. No data on gold content,
if any. Material on dump includes quartz with stibnite and oxidation pro-
ducts. Short adit and drift. See also Cunningham.

Sunrise (Last Chance Cr.) Gold(?)
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.7, 1.35)

60°03'N, 147°28'w

Quartz on dumps by pits probably came from quartz stringers in schist. No
data on gold content, if any.

Thompson Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.55, 1.3)
MF-413, loc. 28 65°03'N, 147°29'wW

Quartz veins in mica and graphite schists; both veins and wall rocks con-
tain gold. Shallow shaft and 100-ft adit with crosscut. No record of pro-
duction. See also: Dome View, Mizpah.

Thompson & Burns Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (18.75, 0.9)
MF-413, loc. 30 65°02'N, 147°29'w

Reddish-yellow brecciated schist and dike rock on dump near adit driven
along fracture zone. Similar rock in neighborhood contains a very small
amount of gold (about 0.04 oz/ton).

Thrift Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (17.35, 0.9) approx.
MF-413, loc. 12 65°02'N, 147°40'W approx.

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Chatham Gold Dredging Co. -- see (Chatham Cr.), (Cleary Cr. near Fair-
banks)

Chatham Mining Co. -- see Chatham

Chief -- see Scrafford, Soo

Christmas -- see (Dome Cr.)

Christina -- see Homestake

Cleary -- see Cleary Hill

Cleary Extension -- see Newsboy

Cleary Hill Alaska Gold Mines Co. -- see Cleary Hill, Wackwitz (Wyoming)

Cleary Hill (Alaska) Mining Co. -- see Cleary Hill

Colby -- see Chatham

Colorado -- see Cleary Hill

Connors & Stevens -- see Gilmore tunnel, Ohio (Fairbanks Cr.)

Cottonwood -- see Busty Belle

Crane -- see (Olive Cr.)

Creighton (& Heilig) -- see Mohawk

Crites & Feldman -- see Hi-Yu

"Cross vein" -- see Excelsior

Dahl & Co. -- see (Gertrude Cr.)

Day Dawn -- see (Dome Cr.)

Deep Channel -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Diamond -~ see (Cleary Cr., near Fairbanks)
Discovery -- see Pioneer (Chatham Cr.)

Dorando -- see Hi-Yu

Dorothy -- see McCarty (Pioneer)

Duncan -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Eagan (and associates) -- see Eagan (Twin Cr.)
Eagle -- see Goodwin, (Livengood Cr.), Scrafford

(Eagle Cr.) -- see Goodwin
Early Bird -- see Ohio (Fairbanks Cr.)

Ebbert -- see Homestake

Eldorado (near Fairbanks) -- see Chechako No. 1, (Little Eldorado Cr.)
Eldorado (near Livengood) -- see (Livengood Cr.)

(Eldorado Cr.) -- see (Little Eldorado Cr.)

Eldorado Creek Mining Co. -- see Chechako No. 1

Eldorado Mining (& Milling) Co. -- see Chechako No. 1, Johnson
Elsie -- see Anna-Mary
El Toro No. 3 -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)

Equity Assn. -- see Soo

Estorffe and Radak -- see (Ruth Cr.)

Etna -- see (Livengood Cr.)

Fairbanks -- see Homestake

Fairbanks Exploration Co. -- see U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co.
Fairbanks Gold Dredging Co. -- see (Fairbanks Cr.)

Fairbanks Gold Mining Co. -- see (Fairbanks Cr.), (Twin Cr.)

Fairhaven & Foss -- see McCarty (Henry Ford)
Falls -- see (Lillian Cr.), (Ruth Cr.), (Wilbur Cr.)
Falls & Barker -- see (Lillian Cr.)

Farrell and associates -- see (Idaho Bar)
Faulkner -- see North Star (Skoogy Gulch), North Star Extension, White
Elephant

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Perrault Antimony, Gold, Silver

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.85, 1.6)
MF-413, loc. 48 65°04'N, 147°19'W

3 or 4 nearly parallel quartz veins enclosing masses of schist, all more
or less mineralized. Small amounts of gold and silver in limonitic mat-
erial. Veinlets of stibnite in both quartz and schist.

Pioneer (Chatham Cr.) Antimony, Gold, Zinc

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.2, 1.55)
65°04 'N, 147°24'W

An auriferous quartz vein about 3 ft thick and a thinner one that con-
tains gold, stibnite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and pyrite intersect.
Three shafts were sunk and some stopes blocked out. Returns on test ship-—
ments were from 1.45 to 4.35 oz/ton in gold. 200 tons of ore milled,
1912-13. First lode claim in Fairbanks district; staked as Blue Bell in
1903.

Plumbum Gold(?)

Fairbanks district Livengood (19.9, 1.6)
65°04'N, 147°18'W

Quartz vein 2 in. to 3 ft thick in schist. Practically barren of sulfides
and no data on possible gold content.

(Quail Cr.) Gold, Mercury, Silver, Tin, Tungsten
Rampart district Livengood (1.1-1.75, 6.3-6.45)
MF-413, locs. 59, 60 65°922'N, 149945'-149°51'wW

Prospecting and small-scale open-cut mining from 1898 to 1940, with
possibly some inactive years; some mining between 1946 and 1959, but
probably inactive since. Both creek and bench deposits; benches about

400 and 150 ft above creek as forks; workable placers on lower bench.

No data on total amount of production; in 1898 and 1904 mining produced
about 160 fine oz of gold. Bedrock is slaty shale, graywacke, phyllite,
quartzite, and numerous felsic dikes and quartz veinlets. Dikes carry sul-
fides; one contained 0.52 oz/ton silver. Placer concentrates contain
picotite, cassiterite, barite, scheelite, garnet, zircon, pyrite, rutile,
and a minor amount of cinnabar. Lode source of gold probably in border
zone around quartz monzonite intrusives of Wolverine Mtn.and other similar
stocks and felsic dikes.

Queen Gold(?)

Fairbanks district Livengood (20.4, 2.0)
65°O5'N, 147914 'w

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2 veins carrying minor amounts of galena, arsenopyrite, and stibnite
and possibly a little gold and silver in quartzite schist and graphitic
schist. Reported production was probably very small. Veins might be
related to a nearby granitic body.

(Fairbanks Cr.) Antimony, Gold, Silver, Tin, Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.95-21.25, 1.4-1.8)
MF-413, locs. 50, 91 65°03'-65°04'N, 147°08'-147°19'W

Bedrock mainly schist; from 15 to 110 or more ft deep. Placer mining
from 1903 to as recently as 1960's. Dredging began in 1911, but drift
and other types of mining also continued. Production, including that
from tributaries, from 1903 through 1920 was about 380,115 fine oz of
gold; one of the most productive creek systems in the Fairbanks district.
Minerals in concentrates include gold, wolframite, scheelite, cassiter-
ite, rutile, and stibnite. Mineralized schist, opened by a short adit,
carries 60 oz/ton silver and about 0.194 oz/ton gold. Quartz stringers
carry the same amount of gold, but no silver.

(Fish Cr.) Antimony, Bismuth, Gold, Tin, Tungsten
Fairbanks district Livengood (20-1-20.5, 0.45-0.55)
MF-413, loc. 90 65°00'N, 147914'-147917'W

Depth of placer ground from about 25 ft to more than 100 ft; has been
mined over a distance of at least 24 mi in the upper valley and also at
and just below mouth of Fairbanks Cr. Bedrock chiefly schist. Mined by
drifting, dredging, and from open cuts; on various scales and in most
years between 1909 and 1977; onesmall operation active in 1977 at mouth
of Pearl Cr. Total production figures not available, but gold yield has
been significantly large. Minor amounts of stibnite, auriferous bismuth
nuggets, cassiterite, and scheelite in concentrates. See also Vogt,
Fairbanks quad.

(Franklin Cr.) (Gulch) Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (10.95, 9.7) approx.
MF-413, loc. 64 65°32'N, 148°30'W approx.

Shallow placer mined, probably in i915. Creek is tributary of Liven-
good Cr.

Frederick(s) Antimony, Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (17.4, 0.7)
MF-413, loc. 13 65°O1'N, 147939'W

Mineralized shatter zone in schist cut by granitic dikes. Lode consists
of quartz and sulfides and their oxidation products. Kidneys of stib-
nite, some coarsely columnar and some finely granular, more abundant near
footwall than hanging wall, which is a smooth fault surface. Developed

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(at $20.67); rock has many small vugs, probably the result of leaching
out of sulfides. Prospect had been idle for some time by 1912.

Grace E #1 Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.3, 1.7)

65°04'N, 147°24'wW

Prospect opened on 2 small quartz veins that carry 2-3 percent sulfides
(including arsenopyrite and minor pyrite) and free-milling gold. 1.3 ppm
Au assay from unaltered schist 9 ft into hanging wall. See also Vetter
(-Shelden); probably on the same ground.

Grace E #2 Gold
Fairbanks district Livengood (19.2, 1.55)

65°04'N, 147°24'W

Analyses of grab and channel samples from auriferous quartz veins and
adjacent schists showed gold values greater than 0.6 ppm 10 ft into foot-
wall; in hanging wall concentrations ranged from 0.63 to more than 2.50
ppm Au. May be on the same ground as the old Alaska mine.

Griffin Gold
Tolovana district Livengood (10.65, 9.1)
MF-413, loc. 3 65°31'N, 148°32'w

Samples of massive, sulfide-bearing, green-stained, silica-carbonate-talc
rock with quartz veining contained as much as 3.9 ppm Au. Caved adit and
pits at property. See also (Lillian Cr.).

(Grouse Cr.) Gold(?)
Rampart district Livengood

NW3NEX quad.

Prospects reported, 1915; creek northeast of Livengood. No more recent
data, so the prospects, if there really were any, could not have been
very good.

(Gunnison Cr.) Gold, Tungsten
Rampart district Livengood (2.3, 7.9)
MF-413, loc. 61 65°27'N, 149°41'W

Placer gold mining reported in 1904 and 1918; probably some in other
years; some prospecting or miningreported near mouth in late 1960's.
Concentrates contain magnetite, ilmenite, scheelite, and pyrite. Creek
drains granitic contact zone on north side of Sawtooth Mtn.; bedrock
mainly quartzite, phyllite, slate, and chert.

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