Lillian Creek (ARDF #LG010) Au

Lillian Creek

Mine, Inactive

Commodities and mineralogy

Main commodities	Au
Other commodities	Cr; Hg; Sb; W
Ore minerals	gold; chromite; cinnabar; gold; scheelite; stibnite

Geographic location

Quadrangle map, 1:250,000-scale	LG
Quadrangle map, 1:63,360-scale	C-4
Latitude	65.511
Longitude	-148.553
Nearby scientific data	Find additional scientific data near this location
Location and accuracy	Cobb (1972, MF-413), loc. 66; sec. 22, T. 8 N., R. 5 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian. Placer mining extended for about a mile from the head to the mouth of Lillian Creek, a tributary of Livengood Creek. Lillian Creek drains the west side of Money Knob, just north of Livengood. The coordinates given are for the center of placer mined ground.

Geologic setting

Geologic description Gold occurs in all the gravels and the top foot of bedrock in both bench and stream placers (Mertie, 1918). Placers were being worked from 4 to 30 feet deep, with most of the gold in low benches. Gold is angular and coarse. Concentrates contain gold, magnetite, ilmenite, picotite, limonite, cinnabar, scheelite, zircon, pyrite, stibnite, and barite (Mertie, 1918). The bedrock surface is very irregular and pitches steeply down the creek (Overbeck, 1920). Mining began in 1915 and was being carried on as recently as 1988 (Cobb, 1976; OFR 76-633, p. 111; Green and others, 1989).
Geologic map unit	(-148.555507614193, 65.510564978592)
Mineral deposit model	Placer gold deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Mineral deposit model number	39a

Production and reserves

Workings or exploration	Mining began in 1915 and was being carried on as recently as 1988 (Cobb, 1976; OFR 76-633, p. 111; Green and others, 1989).
Indication of production	Yes; small
Production notes	Mining occurred from 1915 to 1988, but there is no record of the amount of production.

References

MRDS Number	A015484; D002624
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Reporters	C.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer (Avalon Development Corporation)
Last report date	5/4/1999