This report is a review of the Yukon mineral industry for 1978 by the Geology Section, Yukon, Northern Affairs Program, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. It includes descriptions of work conducted on mineral claims by individuals and mineral exploration companies and operating summaries of the several producing mines in the Yukon.
Information in this report was obtained largely from the geological, geochemical and geophysical reports accepted for credit as assessment work by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. A list of assessment reports, both confidential and those available for inspection, is included in the list of Technical Reports.
In this report, activities of the mineral industry are divided into lode mining and exploration and coal mining and exploration.