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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 term...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 within...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 -
Geology, alteration, and mineralization of the Sato porphyry copper...
The Sato prospect is located between Aishihik Lake and Long Lake in southwestern Yukon Territory. Low grade porphyry-style copper mineralization was discovered on the property...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological setting of gold-silver veins on Montana Mountain
The Montana Mountain area lies at the western edge of the Intermontane Belt, where the Whitehorse Trough overlies the Atlin Terrane. Paleozoic volcanic rocks of Atlin Terrane...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geologic setting and stratigraphic framework of placer deposits, Mayo area, Yukon
Placer deposits occur in unusual geological settings in the Mayo Mining District, where gold is mined from Reid-age glacial till and glaciofluvial gravel and from more recent...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 rocks...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and geochemistry of the Clear Creek gold occurrences, Tombstone gold...
Auriferous sheeted quartz veins and silicified shear zones occur along the margins and within adjacent hornfels zones of mid-Cretaceous Tombstone intrusions near the head of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Blende property, central Yukon
The Blende is a large epigenetic zinc-lead-silver deposit hosted by brecciated middle Proterozoic dolomite. Mineralization occurs intermittently along a zone about 6 km long and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
An alpine peridotite in the Dawson Range, Yukon-Tanana Terrane: Preliminary...
This report summarizes the results of geological mapping and preliminary petrological studies of an exposure of ultramafic rocks, the Buffalo Pitts Peridotite (BPP), in the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
An evaluation of coal-bearing strata at Division Mountain (115 H/8...
The Division Mountain area is underlain primarily by Jurassic to Cretaceous(?) sedimentary rocks of the Laberge Group and Tantalus Formation. The Laberge Group is divisible into...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A note on preliminary lithogeochemistry of the Fire Lake area
The Fyre Lake volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VMS) deposit is located about 160 km northwest of Watson Lake in the Finlayson Lake district of southeastern Yukon. The deposit...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A structural analysis of the upper Swift River area (105 B/3), Yukon, Part...
Marble, calc-silicate rock and pelitic layers of the Ram Creek assemblage surrounding the Dan Zn (± Cu-Pb-Ag) occurrence display ample evidence of a monocyclic structural...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bimodal Volcanism Along the Tintina Trench, Near Faro and Ross River
Bimodal Tertiary volcanic rocks are exposed along the Tintina Trench in central Yukon in the Glenlyon, Grew Creek, and Ketza areas. Basalt and rhyolite are interbedded with...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Biogeochemical prospecting in the Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Yukon Territory
Restoration of the 450 km of right lateral movement on the Tintina Fault brings the massive sulphide-rich Finlayson area of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane to a location southeast of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Biostratigraphy of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Laberge Group, Whitehorse...
New ammonite collections from fine-grained rocks of the Laberge Group in the Whitehorse area are assigned nine ammonite zones or assemblages using the recently established North...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A note on rock geochemistry of the Clear Lake massive sulphide
In 1978, a drillhole discovery of a barite associated massive sulphide was made on the SUE claims by Conwest Exploration in central Yukon. This report presents geochemical data...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer Mining and Exploration Compilation (106D)
A placer mining and exploration compilation of NTS map sheet 106D, central Yukon Territory, Canada. This compilation includes the location, history and previous work,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bimodal Paleogene volcanics near Tintina fault, east-central Yukon, and...
A bimodal volcanic suite of rhyolite intrusions and flows and columnar olivine basalt, basaltic tuff and tuff breccia occurs along and immediately north of the Tintina Fault...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Distribution of Miles Canyon basalt in the Whitehorse area and implications...
Miocene Miles Canyon basalts play a critical role in the historical development and modern economics of the City of Whitehorse. Where cut by the Yukon River, the unnavigable...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML