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Drilling techniques and evaluation of placer gold deposits
Even though standard churn drilling techniques may be recommended in placer gold sampling programs, other methods may prove to be more satisfactory. It is necessary that other...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ancient Pacific Margin: A preliminary comparison of potential VMS-hosting...
In the inaugural year of the joint Geological Survey of Canada - British Columbia Geological Survey Branch - Yukon Geology Program Ancient Pacific Margin NATMAP project,...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Mapping in the Campbell Range, Southeastern Yukon (Parts of 105...
The Finlayson Lake fault zone forms the boundary between autochthonous North American rocks and rocks of the innermost accreted Slide Mountain and Yukon-Tanana terranes in...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Interpretation of an Airborne Multiparameter Geophysical Survey of the...
Much of the Yukon-Tanma Terrane escaped Pleistocene glaciation with the result that there is <1% outcrop across much of the terrane and weathered rock commonely extends to...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and mineral occurrences of the "Dolores Creek" map area (106 C/14),...
The study area is underlain by four stratigraphic successions ranging in age from Middle Proterozoic to Early Paleozoic. From oldest to youngest, they are: Middle Proterozoic...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
An alpine peridotite in the Dawson Range, Yukon-Tanana Terrane: Preliminary...
This report summarizes the results of geological mapping and preliminary petrological studies of an exposure of ultramafic rocks, the Buffalo Pitts Peridotite (BPP), in the...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A new geological map of Mt. Hundere and the area north
This summary of geological studies in the Mt. Hundere area of central Watson Lake map sheet was undertaken as part of a Master's thesis completed at Queen's University in 1977....Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A new geological map of the upper Coal River area
The area at the headwaters of the Coal River was remapped during 1978 and 1979. This report presents revisions to work done previously in the area.Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A new mineral occurrence in Yukon-Tanana Terrane near Little Salmon Lake...
A new occurrence of sulphide-bearing iron formation is reported from a roadcut of Yukon-Tanana Terrane rocks along the Robert Campbell Highway, near Little Salmon Lake. This...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A note on preliminary bedrock mapping in the Fire Lake area
New geological mapping around the Fyre Lake Cu-Co-Au deposit in Yukon-Tanana Terrane, southeastern Yukon, has established the continuity of stratigraphic units from nearby...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A note on preliminary lithogeochemistry of the Fire Lake area
The Fyre Lake volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VMS) deposit is located about 160 km northwest of Watson Lake in the Finlayson Lake district of southeastern Yukon. The deposit...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A note on rock geochemistry of the Clear Lake massive sulphide
In 1978, a drillhole discovery of a barite associated massive sulphide was made on the SUE claims by Conwest Exploration in central Yukon. This report presents geochemical data...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A Pliensbachian submarine slope and conglomeratic gully-fill succession:...
The diachronous Richthofen-Conglomerate Formation transition separates lithostratigraphic subunits of the Jurassic Laberge Group, Whitehorse Trough. The contact is superbly...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A preliminary report on Hart River (116 A/10) - A Proterozoic massive...
In 1966, a conspicuous orange red gossan south of Hart River in the Wernecke Mountains was prospected and staked. The gossan is developed over a stratiform massive sulphide...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A sedimentologic description of Clear Creek Fluviatile sediments 115 P, central Yukon
Clear Creek drainage basin contains fluviatile gravels which have been explored and mined for placer gold since the early 1900's. This paper briefly describes the various...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemistry, paleotectonic setting and metallogeny of Late...
Late Triassic to Early Jurassic age (~220-185 Ma) intrusions comprise one of the most widespread and volumetrically significant plutonic suites in central and western Yukon,...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ag-Pb-Zn Mineralization in the MM Deposit and associated Mississippian...
A sequence of Mississippian felsic volcanic rocks up to 600 m thick occurs in the St. Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains. The volcanic rocks occur in a belt 80 km long and up to...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Assisted revegetation of fine-grained tailings at Whitehorse Copper Mine: A...
Whitehorse Copper Mine, within the city limits of Whitehorse, produced about 10 million tons of fine-grained calc-silicate tailings before its closure in 1982. The tailings,...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A structural analysis of the upper Swift River area (105 B/3), Yukon, Part...
Marble, calc-silicate rock and pelitic layers of the Ram Creek assemblage surrounding the Dan Zn (± Cu-Pb-Ag) occurrence display ample evidence of a monocyclic structural...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A summary report on the geology of the Brown-McDade gold-silver deposit,...
The Brown-McDade deposit was the first vein system discovered in the Mount Nansen camp and has produced approximately 34,000 ounces (1058 kg) of gold and 131,000 ounces (4,075...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML