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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 -
Glaciation, gravel and gold in the Fifty Mile Creek area, west-central Yukon
Previously unrecognized glacial erosional landforms (i.e. cirques, u-shaped troughs, truncated spurs and arêtes, in order of increasing doubt), and glacial depositional...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 -
Gold in skarns of the Whitehorse Copper Belt southern Yukon
Skarns in the Whitehorse Copper Belt occur in both dolomitic and calcareous carbonate rocks near contacts with the diorite contact phase of the Whitehorse Batholith. The skarns...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and mineralization of the Len intrusive-hosted gold prospect,...
The Len porphyry gold prospect is located 47 km north of Mayo, Yukon, in the Tombstone Suite intrusive belt. The area was explored as a Keno Hill-style silver prospect in the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary investigations of emerald mineralization in the Regal Ridge...
Emerald has recently been discovered in two areas in the northern Cordillera, the Lened area immediately east of the Yukon/NWT border and the Regal Ridge property in the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Skukum Creek Gold/Silver Deposit - Rainbow Zone Bioleach and Cyanidation...
Batch flotation tests showed that a simple xanthate gold float using one cleaning stage would yield acceptable gold and silver recoveries for the Rainbow zone mineralization....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology, mineralization, and K-Ar and Rb-Sr isotopic study of the RAM...
The RAM zinc-lead-silver property in southwest Yukon Territory (105 D/4) is on the contact between metamorphic rocks of the Yukon Crystalline Terrane and foliated granitic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Interpretation of an Airborne Multiparameter Geophysical Survey of the...
Much of the Yukon-Tanma Terrane escaped Pleistocene glaciation with the result that there is <1% outcrop across much of the terrane and weathered rock commonely extends to...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and alteration of the Grew Creek epithermal gold-silver prospect,...
Grew Creek epithermal gold prospect, in south-central Yukon Territory, is adjacent to and southwest of the Robert Campbell Highway, halfway between the communities of Ross...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geochronometric study of a Tertiary lamprophyre, MacMillan Pass, Yukon Territory
During 1977, Archer, Cathro and Associates Limited noted a number of conformable or paraconformable sills, at least 30 cm thick, of locally vesicular porphyritic...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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Geology and mineral deposits of southern Yukon
This report includes a summary of the mineral exploration history of Yukon, an outline of the geology of its southern part, and brief descriptions of the most important mineral...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Mapping in the Campbell Range, Southeastern Yukon (Parts of 105...
The Finlayson Lake fault zone forms the boundary between autochthonous North American rocks and rocks of the innermost accreted Slide Mountain and Yukon-Tanana terranes in...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 -
Geological Setting of Mineral Occurrences in Fairchild Lake Map Area...
The Fairchild Lake map area is underlain by two principal sedimentary successions, Middle Proterozoic Wernecke Supergroup and unconformably overlying Middle to Late Proterozoic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
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 -
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