Mine detail: Hill Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 64.97273, -147.43295

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Ore: Gold

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Alteration processes:The bedrock of biotite granite is deeply weathered and stained with iron (Prindle, 1908, p. 40).

References

MRDSA015336
DEP10002856
Reference{Deposit:: Prindle, L.M., 1908, The Fairbanks and Rampart quadrangles, Yukon-Tanana region, Alaska, with a section on the Rampart placers, by F.L. Hess, and a paper on the water supply of the Fairbanks region, by C.C. Covert: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 337, 102 p.}{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1911, The mining industry in 1910: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 480, p. 21-42.}{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1925, Alask* mineral resources and production, 1923: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 773, p. 3-52.}{Deposit:: Glover, A.E., 1950, Placer gold fineness: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Miscellaneous Report 195-1, 38 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-410, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-662, 174 p.}
ReporterC.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer