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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 updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: 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 updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Raca property (Fawley), south Yukon
Vivid gossans associated with the Raca occurrence on the south flank of Chieftain Hill have attracted the attention of prospectors and geologists for nearly a hundred years....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Rare earth elements in the Guano-Guayes skarn property Pelly Mountains,...
The Guano-Guayes property, in the St Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains, covers a skarn about 300 m wide, 70 m thick and 1100 m long. Contact metasomatism of Silurian to Devonian...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Tectonic analysis of the Nisling, northern Stikine and northern Cache Creek...
A copy of this thesis is available at the EMR library – QE187 J32. This thesis is available online at https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/185864.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Mineral Deposit Profiles
The deposit models project is an attempt to classify the many known metallic mineral deposits and occurrences in Yukon into specific mineral deposit models. This work began...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Soil Geochemistry above Deeply Weathered Porphyry Deposits in Unglaciated...
Much of west-central Yukon escaped glaciation and is underlain by leached and oxidized, deeply weathered bedrock. Background and anomalous metal values in these soils are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Revised stratigraphy and new exploration targets in the Hart River region...
The Hart River area (maps 116 A/10 and 11) of the southeastern Ogilvie Mountains is underlain by two varied and widespread successions which offer the most potential for...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Reed Creek property, southwestern Yukon
Placer mining on the Reed Creek property in the 1980's produced coarse, angular nuggets with adhering gangue material which resembles quartz-carbonate alteration outcropping on...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary Geology of the Northeast Third of Grass Lakes Map Area (105G/7),...
The northeast corner of Grass Lakes map area is underlain by polydeformed metasedimentary, metavolcanic and metaplutonic rocks of Yukon-Tanana Terrane, and ultramafic rocks of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology north of Mount Mye, Anvil District (105K/6, 105K/7),...
The northeast Anvil area, 15 km north of Mount Mye (NTS 105K/6, 105K/7), is underlain by a conformable Cambrian-Devonian volcanic and sedimentary package with an aggregate...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Post-mining hydrogeochemical conditions, Brewery Creek gold deposit, central Yukon
A reconnaissance-level study of post-mining hydrogeochemical conditions was carried out at the Brewery Creek gold deposit within the Tintina Gold Province. The deposit is...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of the Thirty-Seven Mile Creek map sheet (105 D/13)
Thirty-Seven Mile Creek map area, northwest of Whitehorse, straddles the contact between Coast Plutonic Complex and rocks attributed to northern Stikine Terrane. Late Triassic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleomagnetic Study of the mid-Cretaceous Mount McIntyre pluton, Whitehorse...
The paleomagnetic signature of the mid-Cretaceous Mount McIntyre Pluton, west of Whitehorse, was evaluated to develop a better understanding of the motion history of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer depositional settings and their ages along Dominion Creek, Klondike...
Dominion Creek and its tributaries (Sulphur and Gold Run creeks) are one of the largest placer gold producing areas in North America. The placer gravel is divided into: (1)...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer geology of Black Hills Creek (Parts of 115 O/7 and 10)
Mapping in the Black Hills Creek drainage has identified auriferous gravel resources in valley bottom and terrace deposits of the main stream. Both low-level and high-level...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Nature of the Robert Service Thrust on Fork Plateau and implications for...
Revision geological mapping has shown that the Robert Service Thrust is imbricated and isoclinally folded in Mayo map area. On Fork Plateau, highly deformed Keno Hill quartzite...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mt. Hundere deposit, southeastern Yukon
In 1990, Curragh Resources announced its intention to spend $70 million to develop a high-grade zinc-lead-silver mine at Mt. Hundere, 54 km north of Watson Lake. The deposit...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Munson property, south Yukon
The Munson occurrence consists of massive black sphalerite, galena chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and magnetite exposed in bulldozer trenches on the floor of a cirque. The sulphides...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sluicing in the Yukon Territory - 1984
In the Yukon, the relatively low initial cost, high concentrating ratio, durability, high throughput, ease of use and acceptable recovery rates are reasons the sluice, in its...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML