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Goulter Property, central Yukon
This property, which adjoins the Mt. Nansen property on the north side, is bisected by Discovery Creek, a significant placer gold producer. Two parallel zones of anastomosing...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Wolverine polymetallic volcanic-hosted massive sulphide...
The Wolverine polymetallic volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposit occurs in a highly deformed but coherent stratigraphic succession of early Mississippian to early Permian...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of the Quill Creek map area, southwest Yukon parts of...
Geologic mapping within the Quill Creek area identified complex stratigraphic and structural relationships that characterize much of the Kluane Ranges in southwest Yukon....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Granitic rocks and associated mineral deposits of the Whitehorse Map-Area,...
This report demonstrates that the stratigraphic, compositional and textural data are sufficient to easily distinguish the four major granitic rock types in the area. This is an...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Progress report on the Clinton Creek asbestos project
Country rocks in the project area are metamorphic rocks of the Yukon Group whose age, though uncertain, is believed to be late Precambrian and/or early Paleozoic. Several small...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Mount M'Clintock Map Area (105D/16), Southern Yukon Territory
The Mount M'Clintock map area, northeast of Whitehorse, is dominated by Middle Triassic to Jurassic sedimentary and volcanic strata of Stikinia with small portions of the Cache...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
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