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Rock River Basin (NTS 95D/11 and 14)
Coal was discovered in the Rock River Basin by Sulpetro Minerals Ltd. In July 1980, and five holes sunk to delimit coal occurrences in September 1981. Samples were collected...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sedimentology and stratigraphy of Duncan Creek placer deposits, Mayo, central Yukon
Placer deposits in the Mayo area occur in a wide variety of geomorphic settings, including alluvial fans, gulch gravels, valley-bottoms (alluvial plains), and bedrock terrace...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sedimentology of a high level terrace placer gold deposit, Klondike Valley, Yukon
Significant economic concentrations of placer gold were first recognized in an intermediate level terrace near Dawson City in the late 1980's Regional surficial mapping has...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Selected excerpts from placer gold recovery research
The highest percentage gold recoveries occurred at mines which screened their feed to minus one inch, used both expanded metal and angle iron riffles on top of nomad matting...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Silver-bearing veins and replacement deposits of the Rancheria District
Numerous silver-rich, galena- and sphalerite-bearing veins and stratabound lenses are located on both sides of the Yukon-British Columbia border in the Rancheria District. Some...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Silver-lead-zinc deposits of the Keno Hill-Galena Hill area, central Yukon
The Keno Hill-Galena Hill area is underlain by Yukon Group metasedimentary rocks which form the southern flank of the McQuesten anticline in the area. A series of faults,...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
So you want to go mining in the Yukon, eh?
Many people who want to get started placer mining in the Yukon have questions about many things including cost, types of equipment, government regulations, and of course,...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Regional mineral resource assessment of Cassiar Terrane and eastern...
In February 2000, Yukon Government Mineral Resources Branch convened a panel of industry geologists to estimate the likelihood of new discoveries in Cassiar Terrane and eastern...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Regional stream sediment and water geochemical data, Eastern Yukon and...
Archived Content Notice: This publication is provided for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It is not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards and has not...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of Rose Mountain, Anvil District, central Yukon (105 K/5)
A 2000 m thick succession of six metasedimentary and metavolcanic units ranging in age from Ordovician through Permian strikes northwest and dips moderately to the southwest in...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of the Pool Creek map area (95C/5), southeastern Yukon
Fieldwork in the northwest corner of Pool Creek map area (NTS 95C/5) during the summer of 2000 distinguished North and South areas with distinct stratigraphies and deformation...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of the southeastern part of Ddhaw Ghro Special Management Area
Ddhaw Ghro Special Management Area (SMA) is currently withdrawn from mineral claim disposition. A mineral resource assessment of Ddhaw Ghro SMA will be carried out during the...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary investigation of the bedrock geology of the Livingstone Creek...
The Livingstone Creek area is underlain by metasedimentary and metaigneous rocks of Yukon-Tanana Terrane. It is intruded by at least five distinct suites of intrusive rocks of...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary observations on the geology and geochemistry of quartz veins in...
Four main styles of quartz veining are recognized in the Klondike District. These include foliaform and discordant mesothermal quartz veins in schistose metamorphic rocks,...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary results from water sampling in the Pelly-Cassiar Platform...
Water and sediment samples were collected from 13 creeks/springs which drain the Devono-Mississippian Pelly Mountains volcanic belt that hosts the Wolf and MM volcanogenic...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary stratigraphy and distribution of Devono-Mississippian massive...
The Mount Vermilion area is located at the southeast end of the Pelly Mountains volcanic belt, about 90 km southeast of Ross River, and includes the Wolf volcanogenic massive...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary structural and kinematic analysis of mylonitic rocks of the...
The Teslin suture zone (TSZ) is a Late Triassic to mid-Jurassic subduction complex and forms the fundamental boundary between rocks deposited along the ancient western margin...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Proterozoic and Early Paleozoic volcanism in the Ogilvie Mountains: An...
Volcanic rocks in the Dawson map-area occur as isolated lenses within the early Paleozoic Selwyn Basin assemblage and as sets of flows and complexes within Proterozoic...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Quaternary history of McQuesten map area, central Yukon
Preliminary results from the Stewart River stratigraphy and surficial mapping suggest a minimum of four glaciations and two interglacial periods. Methods of stratigraphy,...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Quaternary, structural and engineering geology of the Aishihik River...
The Aishihik River landslide is a prehistoric slope failure located on a southwest-facing slope of the Ruby Range along the Alaska Highway. The failed mass consists of gneissic...Date de mise à jour: 2011-04-04Date de création: 2011-04-04Éditeur: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML