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U-Pb zircon geochronology from a Late Triassic pluton in the Mount Nansen area
This report presents the geochronology results for one sample from a Late Triassic Pyroxene Mountain pluton collected in the Mount Nansen area and analyzed for U-Pb zircon...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-01-07Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mineral potential/*confidence in geological mapping for the Dawson Region...
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Data-driven, early-exploration predictive indicators for porphyry-style...
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Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2021
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Yukon Geological Survey 2021 overview
Following a challenging year in 2020, activities at the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS) began to return to near-normal in 2021. While a number of provisions related to COVID...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon hard rock mining, development and exploration overview 2021
Yukon mineral exploration activity in 2021 continued to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, due to measures put in place by mining and exploration companies,...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Mineral Exploration Program 2021 update
YMEP funding for the 2021–22 season was $1.4M. The Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) contributed an additional $80 000 to the YMEP budget. The funding...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Geological Survey’s Outreach Program: 2021 highlights
Geoscience, which is the study of Earth systems, is complex and highly dynamic. It examines the interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere –...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon placer mining 2021 development and exploration overview
Yukon’s placer mining industry continues to display its resilience through another mining season during a worldwide pandemic. The pandemic continues to bring delays and...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Bedrock Geology Map
The Yukon bedrock geology map is in constant evolution as new mapping, geochronology and other geoscience studies improve the stratigraphy, and bring more detailed...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-14Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology 2021
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Placer gold settings within an alpine glaciated environment, Granite Creek,...
Alpine glaciers from cirques of Granite and Albert creeks have deformed and reworked sediments in the Granite Creek valley and deposited locally sourced gold. Placer mining...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Update on the bedrock geology of the Rusty Mountain and Bonnet Plume Pass...
The Rusty Mountain and Bonnet Plume Pass areas are underlain by sedimentary strata of the Paleoproterozoic Gillespie Lake Group, Mesoproterozoic Pinguicula Group,...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geochemical setting of the southern Carmacks-Minto copper belt
Preliminary surficial geological investigations of the southern Carmacks-Minto copper belt (NTS 115I/7) include material thicknesses, distribution and observations of thermal...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary results and structural interpretations from drone lidar surveys...
The Yukon Geological Survey and Kluane First Nation intend to drill a temperature gradient well near Burwash Landing, YT, to evaluate the geothermal energy potential of the...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Permafrost Database: A new baseline data resource
The Yukon Geological Survey (YGS) has compiled available geotechnical and ground temperature data and related literature from government, industry and other contributors into...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Updates to the Yukon Geological Survey’s mineral potential mapping methodology
This paper serves as an update to an earlier paper published by the Yukon Geological Survey: New mineral potential mapping methodology for Yukon: case studies from the Beaver...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Carpenter Creek and McKay Hill areas (NTS 106D/6, 11), central Yukon
The Carpenter Creek area straddles the Paleozoic basin-platform transition which is coincident with the Dawson thrust in north-central Yukon. North of the thrust, the strata...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary observations on the geology of the southern Big Salmon Range,...
Penetratively deformed rocks of the Yukon-Tanana terrane and Semenof block, and unfoliated Jurassic-Cretaceous intrusions are exposed in the southern Big Salmon Range of...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Updated bedrock geology of the southern Nash Creek area in central Yukon...
The southern Nash Creek area is located along the northern boundary of the Selwyn basin, and is underlain mainly by the Ediacaran–Cambrian Hyland Group, the...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2022-02-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML