Remote Prospecting?

[Geowizard]

L11350;

It's midnight here in Arizona. I was itching to do some prospecting up on Wade Creek in the Fortymile.

I launched Google Earth. It loaded and took me to my starting location, Ophir. I flew 450 miles to Chicken. Right now, it's Friday night, 10:00 PM in Chicken. I checked the weather. It's cloudy and -11 degrees F.

I estimated from my prior work in the Fortymile that line L11350 would cross Wade Creek about where I wanted to prospect. I plotted the two ends of the survey line on Google Earth and, yes it was right where I wanted to take a peek!

I copied and pasted the EM data into Microsoft Excel and calculated the "Metal Detector" signal for the almost 10,000 stations along the survey line. I found about half a dozen good looking hits. I began plotting the hits at their respective coordinates running north from *(edited:) Liberty Creek up across Wade Creek almost to the Fortymile River.

At station 7918 there is an interesting anomaly. I plotted the coordinates of the anomaly. The anomaly is 3978 feet long and crosses Gilliland Creek. Gilliland Creek drains into upper Wade Creek.

I went on Caltopo to plot the extent of the anomaly on a topo map. I created a pdf downloaded from Caltopo and uploaded it to my website.

Here's a link to the map: http://www.alaska-gold.com/fortymile/L11350_7918.pdf

I went to Alaska Mapper to get a view of the mining claim status and downloaded a map and uploaded the map to my website.

Here's a link to the mapper topo map: http://www.alaska-gold.com/fortymile/L1 ... r_topo.pdf

It took about half an hour to fly up to Chicken, plot out the survey data, make a discovery and publish the results.

Happy New Year!

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

L11350;

The discoveries continue.

After a good night's rest and a bite to eat, I decided to do some more prospecting on L11350.

I mentioned there were more anomalies and started at the beginning of the survey line.

I graph the anomalies in 1000 station intervals. Here's a snippet:

http://www.alaska-gold.com/fortymile/L1 ... to_400.png

After plotting the coordinates on Google Earth, I plotted the anomaly on Caltopo.

Here's the Caltopo map: http://www.alaska-gold.com/fortymile/L11350_0_99.pdf

The anomaly is 1945 feet long and located on a high bank above Liberty Creek at stations from 0 to 99.

Note: I'm thinking "High Banker".

Here's a link to the Alaska Mapper image:

http://www.alaska-gold.com/fortymile/L1 ... r_topo.pdf

Does anyone else see a correlation of this anomaly with current and past Placer GOLD mining?

Stick around, there's more!

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

L11350_909;

I noticed an anomaly two miles north and thought you might be interested.

This anomaly is at station 909. The anomaly is 1911 feet long.

It is located on the drainage that drains into Liberty Creek at the center of the previously mentioned present and historic placer mining operations. Probably just a coincidence, but someone went through the trouble to build a cabin there. Any ideas why?

Inquiring minds might be interested in the coordinates.

I downloaded a Caltopo map and uploaded it to my website. Here's the link:

http://www.alaska-gold.com/fortymile/L11350_909.pdf

I did the same for mapper. Here's the link: http://www.alaska-gold.com/fortymile/L1 ... r_topo.pdf

It's lunch time.

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

L11350_2988;

I'm sure by now, most of you Remote Prospectors are starting to get the idea.

For purposes of presentation, I am only showing the best anomalies. Here's another one:

This anomaly is at station 2988.

The distance across this anomaly is 1673 feet.

The Caltopo map link is here: http://www.alaska-gold.com/fortymile/L11350_2988.pdf

Alaska Mapper link is here: http://www.alaska-gold.com/fortymile/L1 ... r_topo.pdf

The placer GOLD miners working on Walker Fork (upper left) are probably not aware of the lode inferred by this anomaly.

Stick around, there's more!

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

Foley's Trapline;

It's almost noon and I've been out prospecting!

This morning, on my way from Ophir to Fortymile as I was flying over Big Delta and Delta Junction, I heard a voice calling me.

It was saying "Make a hard left." So, I made a hard left heading up the Richardson Highway toward Fairbanks.

On the way to Fairbanks you cross the Salcha River. There's an airborne Geophysical survey called the "Salcha River - Pogo" Survey.

The little voice was telling me to head on up to North Pole and make a right on Badger Road, Turn North and head on up to Chena Hot Springs Road. Then it said make a right and head east on up to the East Fork of the Chena River.

Are we there yet?

In our prospecting past, here on this forum, we prospected the Sacha River area. I consider it to be "Elephant Country". If you're looking for a trophy GOLD nugget, get loaded up and hop in!

Foley's trap line: http:/www.alaska-gold.com/salcha/L10230_125_image.jpg

Don't go away, there's more!

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

Gold Creek;

Between Jim's trapline and the Salcha River is where the Salcha survey was conducted.

There are place names like "Gold Creek". "Eldorado Creek".

I plotted two anomalies on two survey lines, L10210 and L10230. The two anomalies are coincidentally located on probable erosion models that would provide a source of GOLD for Gold Creek.

Here's a link to L10210_3823 as I plotted it: http://www.alaska-gold.com/salcha/L10210_3823.png

Here's a link to a Caltopo map: http://www.alaska-gold.com/salcha/L10230_4118.pdf

These anomalies are 1180 feet wide from north to south and cross both survey lines.

Stick around, We're just getting started!

-Geowizard

[Jim_Alaska]

Back in those days I was barely into prospecting. But even then I could see that when I was up high on the ridges there was obviously something big going on over there.

One other thing to add about that area. I flew over there one time with a guy that had leased his D-6 to some miners over there. When flying up the Salcha River we came to a creek, don't know the name of it, that emptied into the Salcha from the north. From the air it looked like a pretty long creek, but the interesting thing about it was that I could see it had been mined at some time past with a bucket line dredge, and that dredge was sitting where they left it in the headwaters.

[Geowizard]

Jim,

Yes, your description does sound like Gold Creek.

Exposed rocks in the Buttes there are Chocolate colored above the tree line from what can be seen on Google Earth. The inferred ore body runs at least several miles parallel to and south of Gold Creek. The State of Alaska was apparently impressed enough after the survey to add 18 square miles of it to their Mental Health Trust.

Mental Health Trust Lands are managed by the State of Alaska Mental Health Trust. They are available to qualified mining companies for purposes of exploration and mining. Unfortunately, the requirements are unrealistic when you add up the "guarantees" that the State includes in their lease.

Here's a link to a recent example:

https://alaskamentalhealthtrust.org/wp- ... PN-BID.pdf

Fortunately for us, there's lots of other GOLD in them hills!

- Geowizard

[Jim_Alaska]

Should be able to actually see the dredge on GoogleEarth. I'll have to take a look some time. I was impressed with the immense amount of material they moved all the way up that creek.

[Jim_Alaska]

In thinking back on what i saw on that creek, they went right up the middle. They stacked the discharge on both banks. So, that would mean that they removed all the overburden down to bedrock. What a wonderful opportunity for someone to go in there with dredges and not have to move all that overburden, just clean bedrock and suck up what they left behind. Bucket line dredges were notorious for not be able to clean bedrock, they left a lot of "incidental fall back", so they may have left a lot.