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Brewery Creek property, west-central Yukon
The Brewery Creek property is a low grade oxide gold deposit hosted by syenitic intrusive rocks in the south Klondike area. The deposit apears to be structurally controlled by...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Protected Areas in Canada
This report is a compilation of designated protected areas in each Canadian province and territory as of April 2001.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of Carcross (105D/2) and Part of Robinson (105D/7) Map Areas
Geology of the Carcross (105D/2) and part of the Robinson (105D/7) map areas, south of Whitehorse, Yukon, were mapped at 1:50,000 scale during the 1988 field season. The map...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Biotite chemistry of the Casino porphyry Cu-Mo-Au occurrence, Dawson Range, Yukon
Biotites from hydrothermal alteration zones of the Casino porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit have a chemical composition that is distinct from biotites of the unaltered Dawson Range...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...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 -
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...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemistry, paleotectonic setting and metallogeny of Late...
Late Triassic to Early Jurassic age (~220-185 Ma) intrusions comprise one of the most widespread and volumetrically significant plutonic suites in central and western Yukon,...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 -
Geology of NTS Map Area 116A/10, Eastern Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon
Geological map (1:50,000 scale) of eastern Ogilvie Mountains area, central Yukon (NTS 116A/10) including geological cross sections and mineral occurrences.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 -
Age, geochemical and metallogenic investigations of Cretaceous intrusions in...
The geochronology and geochemistry of Cretaceous intrusions and associated mineralization in southeastern Yukon and southwestern NWT is the focus of a new research project. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A brief glimpse into post-Soviet placer mining
The Ural mountain province of Russia is one of the richest and mineralogically diverse regions in the world, with world-class deposits of platinum and PGEs, gold, copper,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bedrock Geology, Yukon Territory
Geological map (1:1,000,000 scale) of the Yukon Territory, including the following inset maps: terrane map; physiographic regions map; glacial limits map; aeromagnetic image...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
'Alpine-type' ultramafic rocks of the Kluane metamorphic assemblage,...
Mica-quartz schist and olivine serpentinites form the Kluane metamorphic assemblage, a 150-km-long belt that is wedged between the Yukon-Tanana Terrane and the Insular...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Alteration and zonation in the Kalzas W-Sn-Mo Porphyry-vein deposit, 105 M/7, Yukon
The Kalzas W-Sn-Mo deposit is located in central Yukon, 282 km north of Whitehorse on the northern side of Big Kalzas Lake. Wolframite-molybdenite-cassiterite mineralization...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A short history of the finding of gold in the Klondike
Gold was first reported in the Yukon region by fur traders and missionaries in the mid 1800s. Fur trader Robert Campbell noted the presence of gold near the site of Fort...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 -
Age and setting of dinosaur trackways, Ross River area, Yukon Territory (105F/15)
Chert-bearing clastic strata are a common component of Jurassic and younger terrestrial sequences in the Yukon. The discovery of dinosaur trackways in a small inlier of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Map of Mount Mye (105K/6 NW), central Yukon (1:25000 scale)
Includes a geological cross section, mineral occurrences, isotopic age dates, fossil samples and geochemical samples.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML