Winner Creek — Cook Inlet - Susitna Region

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Tom Ashworth). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: cook_inlet_susitna_region_ak.shtml. Area: Winner Creek. Map coordinates refined from landmark name — still approximate; verify on the ground. Winner Creek contains placer gold. Girdwood District The Girdwood district is a minor producing district that was founded in 1896. There are many hard rock mines that produced lode gold, so it is assummed that placer can be found here too. Hope District The district was primarily a lode gold district. Kenai Peninsula District A few streams in the Kenai Peninsula district yield gold. Moose Pass District This district was a lode gold district. Nuka Bay District Nuka Bay district is in the extreme south part of the peninsula. The Nuka Bay Mines Company, Nukalask Mining Company, Rosness & Larson and Skinner Mines all produced lode gold in this district. There were many old lode mines in this district. Seldovia District The Seldovia district is at the south end of the peninsula on the Seldovia USGS quadrangle. There were many old mines here (eg. Alley, Mills & Trimble, Alaska Hills, Little Creek and others). Most mines were lode mines. Sunrise District The district was primarily a lode gold district. Turnagain Arm District Turnagain Arm district is a seaway district south of Anchorage in central and north parts of the peninsula. Along Turnagain Arm, there were many small placer operations. There were also many hard rock mines, especially around the head of Crow Creek. Along Mills, Canyon, Falls and Cooper Creeks placers were discovered in 1896. These placer are very rich. along Crow, Resurrection, Palmer, Sixmile and other creeks, draining into the Turnagain Arm from the north part of the peninsula had rich placers. Valdez Creek District This district is about 125 miles south of Fairbanks by air. It consist of the drainages of Valdez and Clearwater Creeks. The Tammany Channel was a buried ancient river chanel of Valdez Creek and was discovered in 1904. The placer were very rich and extensively hydraulicked. There are several old lode mines in the area. Willow Creek District NE of Wasilla by road and 21 miles northwest of Palmer, is the Willow Creek district. The area above Matanuska in the upper end of Willow Creek at the head of Cook inlet, is the second most productive lode gold area in Alaska. There were very many rich lode gold mines. Yentna - Cache Creek District This district is on the southeast slopes of the Alaska range. Along Dollar, Thunder and Willow Creeks there are very rich placers. Nugget Creek was also a rich producer. The Yentna River upper drainages and tributaries, Cache, Mills, Petter and Long Creeks all had rich placer gravels.