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High Level Terraces Along Parts of Yukon River and Sixtymile River (115 N/9...
High level terraces representing former valley bottom deposits exist along Yukon River and several of its tributaries. The terraces contain fluvial gravel deposits wich are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Lead isotope signatures of Tintina Gold Province intrusions and associated...
This paper presents new lead isotope data from intrusive rocks and several mineral deposits from the southeastern portion of the Tintina Gold Province (TGP). Lead isotopic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mount Byng property, south Yukon
An interesting grassroots exploration prospect is associated with a Lower Cretaceous intrusive complex on the ridge north of Mt. Byng, 50 km northeast of Whitehorse. Brecciated...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Joe Mountain Map Area (105D/15), Southern Yukon Territory
The Joe Mountain map area, northeast of Whitehorse, is underlain by folded, Upper Triassic and Jurassic sedimentary and volcanic strata of the Whitehorse Trough which are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Microearthquake Seismicity on the Duke River, Denali Fault System
A seven station seismograph array operated at two sites on the western segment of the Duke River Fault between May 22, 1987 and August 13, 1987 detected 146 earthquakes of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Jurassic plate motions of the Stikine Terrane, southern Yukon: A...
The ~177 Ma Teslin Crossing Pluton was studied paleomagnetically to determine the post-Early Jurassic tectonic motions of the northern Stikine Terrane. There are few published...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Provisional Rb/Sr dates: Cash porphyry copper molybdenum property, Yukon Territory
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Glass-fission-track ages of Late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in the Klondike...
A distinctive and widespread tephra bed is a very useful stratigraphic tool, especially if its age is accurately and precisely known. However, distal tephra beds, like those in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Goddell property, south Yukon
Quartz-stibnite veins at Goddell Gully represent only a few of the several antimony occurrences on Carbon Hill. Strong east-trending structures contain the showings over at...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
McMillan property, southeastern Yukon
The McMillan deposit contains 1.1 million tonnes grading 8.3% Zn, 4.1% Pb and 62 g/t Ag in a manto-like replacement deposit in the Proterozoic/Lower Cambrian Hyland Group at...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Flood basalts of the Wrangellia Terrane, southwest Yukon: Implications for...
The Wrangellia Terrane along the northwest margin of North America is an extensive accreted oceanic plateau. These volcanic sequences erupted onto an extinct island arc in less...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the south zone deposits, Jason property, Macmillan Pass area, Yukon
Mineralized zones on the Jason property are stratifrom, sediment hosed Pb-Zn-barite deposits that occur in a Late Devonian age marine carbonaceous shale and turbidite sequence....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Grew Creek epithermal gold-silver deposit, Tintina Trench, Yukon, 105 K/2
The Grew Creek epithermal gold-silver deposit in southeast Yukon (MINFILE 105 K 009) is hosted by Eocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks deposited in a pull-apart basin within...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The nature of gold: an environmental history of the Alaska/Yukon Gold Rush
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Mamu-Bravo-Kulan claims: A VHMS exploration target based on geochmical and...
The Mamu-Bravo-Kulan property is situated within the Cassiar Platform which is composed mainly of moderately faulted and folded Paleozoic miogeoclinal clastic and carbonate...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Massive Sulphide Deposits in the Yukon-Tanana and Adjacent Terranes
Recent discoveries of at least two types of volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits hosted in varying terranes have greatly expanded the mineral potential of the Yukon...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
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 -
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