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Metamorphism of Sedimentary Rocks by Syenitic Intrusions in the Tombstone...
Sedimentary and volcanic rocks ranging in age from Precambrian to Lower Cretaceous underlie the Tombstone area (116 A/4). The conditions of metamorphism of the sedimentary...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mineral exploration in Yukon and western district of Mackenzie: Deposit...
This report includes a summary of the mineral exploration history of Yukon, an overview of major discoveries and a survey of exploration trends in the territory.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Heavy minerals in the gravels of Highet Creek, Yukon Territory, 115 P/9, 16
The Highet Creek area, 25 km northwest of Mayo, has been mined for placer gold continuously since 1903 by many individual operations. In this study, samples were taken from the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A bibliography of terrain classification in Yukon Territory
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Cenozoic syntectonic sedimentation and strike-slip basin development along...
This is a multidisciplinary study which combines sedimentology and sedimentary petrology, palynology, organic petrology and structural analysis of the middle Cenozoic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Comparative studies of cataclastic allochtonous rocks in McQuesten, Laberge...
The recent tectonic synthesis of central Yukon outlines the affinity of several groups of cataclastic rocks preserved mostly as allochthonous sheets. The subduction processes...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Characterization of the basal hydraulic system of a surge-type glacier;...
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Chieftain Hill property (Morning, Evening, Ocean), south Yukon
Chieftain Hill, near Skukum Creek gold deposit, is underlain by numerous spectacular orange, yellow and red goassans. Stibnite-quartz veins discovered on Chieftain Hill are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Cyanide - The Facts
Cyanide is probably one of the most universally recognized poisons. Cyanide contains a carbon atom connected to a nitrogen atom, hence the chemical formula CN. However, the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Description of the Mount Skukum Volcanic Complex, southern Yukon
The Mount Skukum Volcanic Complex (MSVC) is the northernmost extension of the Sloko volcanic province in western British Columbia, a broad northwest-trending volcanic belt...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Differential uplift across the Coast Plutonic Complex-Northern Stikine...
Six fission-track analyses were conducted on samples taken across a fault in the Takhini Hotsprings area, Yukon. The results indicate that samples taken on the east side of the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Drift prospecting for gold in the Tintina Trench
Two tills and related deposits are the products of at least two ice advances over the Tintina Trench near Ross River, Yukon Territory. These ice advances are termed the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Element distribution in Yukon gold-silver deposits
One third of the gold and gold-silver deposits in Yukon were examined and sampled in 1980 to establish a framework of geology and rock chemistry from which variations within...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Enhanced landsat thematic mapper imagery for exploration geology in the...
Digitally enhanced Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery was evaluated as a mapping aid for exploration geology in the Wheaton River District of the southern Yukon. Landsat TM...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Epigenetic mineral deposits of the Ketza-Seagull district, Yukon
Most epigenetic occurrences of gold and silver in the Pelly Mountains of central Yukon form two adjacent clusters at the headwaters of the Ketza River and Seagull Creek. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Evidence of hydrothermal alteration in White Channel sediments and bedrock...
A post-depositional hydrothermal alteration product in White Channel sediments and underlying bedrock is divided into 3 zones. These zones, termed the Bleached Zone, the Iron...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Examination of Natural Attenuation of Metals in Aqueous Solution by Soils in...
In May 2003, the proposal for this project was submitted to the Mining Environment Research Group (MERG). At that time Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd. (NPG) was in charge of water...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Exploration geology of the Mt. Skukum epithermal gold deposit, southwestern Yukon
Veins in Main Cirque are hosted in major normal fault zones bounding down-dropped blocks to depletion of a magma chamber below the adjacent eruptive centre. Residual heat...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Facies and Depositional Setting of Laberge Conglomerates (Jurassic),...
The Whitehorse Trough, south-central Yukon, originated as a Mesozoic fore-arc basin separating the allochthonous Stikine Terrane to the west from the North American craton....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Finlayson project: Geological evolution of Yukon-Tanana Terrane and its...
Geological mapping in Wolverine Lake area has outlined new Yukon-Tanana Terrane stratigraphy, constrained the stratigraphic position of the Wolverine Lake volcanogenic massive...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML