Chicken Mountain Gold Prospect

Flat, Alaska

62.3793°N 157.9829°W

Mine Overview

The Chicken Mountain Gold Prospect is in Flat, Alaska. Historically the site has been part of the Iditarod Mining District. Preliminary development has taken place such as surface trenching, adits, shafts, drill holes, geophysics, geochemistry, or geological mapping. Enough data has been gathered to estimate grade and tonnage. The ore mined is composed of gold, stibnite and cinnabar with waste material consisting primarily of quartz. The host rock in this area is monzonite from the Pliocene epoch 5.33 to 2.58 million years ago.

Site identification and general characteristics. Learn about USGS mines.

Antimony, Gold, and Mercury Primary Commodity
Site Record Type^?
Prospect Development Status^?
Metallic Site Commodity Type^?

Mine Names

Name^? Status^?
Chicken Mountain Current

Commodities

Additional textual information about a site or mine.

Commodity Type Importance
Antimony Metallic Primary
Gold Metallic Primary
Mercury Metallic Primary

Deposit

MODEL NAME = EPITHERMAL VEIN

SAMPLING BY USBM (MALONEY, 1962) OF 'UPPER CHICKEN CREEK' IS APPROXIMATELY SAME AREA AS THIS PROSPECT.

Location Info

Yukon-Koyukuk , Alaska County / State

Continent Country State County
North America The United States Alaska n/a

Meridian / Township / Range Description

Meridian^? Township^? Section^? Aliquot^?
Seward Meridian T.27N R.47W Sec. 34 -

Mining Districts

Formal or informal mining district names.

District
Iditarod Mining District

Workings

SURFACE SAMPLING AND DRILLING

Geology

ENECHELON QUARTZ VEINS IN MONZONITE CONTAIN STIBNITE, CINNABAR, AND GOLD. DRILLING SHOWS CHALCOPYRITE-MOLYBDENITE MINERALIZATION AT DEPTH.

Materials

Minerals or other materials present in the mine.

Role^? Material^?
Gangue/Waste Quartz
Ore Cinnabar
Ore Gold
Ore Stibnite

Rocks

Geological materials at the site.

Class^? 1st Order Name^? 2nd Order Name^? 3rd Order Name^? 4th Order Name^? Most Specific Name^? Begin Time End Time Description^?
Host Rock Plutonic Rock Granitoid Monzonite - Monzonite Pliocene Pliocene -

Exploration

STATUS IS ACTIVE

Model

Mineral deposit model of the site.

Name^? USGS Model Code^? BC Model Code^? Mark 3 model code^?
POLYMETALLIC VEINS 22C - -

Reference

BUNDTZEN AND OTHERS, 1992

Nearby Deposits

Other deposits in the same region.

Nearby Places

Flat (5.18 miles away)

Nearby Mining Districts

Iditarod Mining District (0 miles away)

Footnotes

* Mine bounds on map indicate the general area that a mine occupies. For an detailed map, refer to the overseeing BLM field office.

** The mine central point is based on an average of the mine's bounding box(es) and does not necessarily fall on the claim itself.

¹ World-class significance is determined by total endowment of the contained commodity. This includes all past production and remaining reserves. Each commodity is considered separately and commodities cannot be combined to arrive at a significant size. The tonnage thresholds are from the mine model grade-tonnage studies. As of June 2008, many entries were classified as significant under less strict rules.

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