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The geology of the Rapid Creek-Big Fish River phosphatic iron formation...
The phosphatic iron formation under investigation shows some interesting characteristics. Aspects that set it apart from other phosphatic iron formations are: 1) coexistence of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The glacial history and placer gold potential of the north McQuesten River...
Glacial history reconstructions and geomorphic mapping in the North McQuesten River, Dublin Gulch, and Keno Hill map areas indicate a succession of less extensive glaciations....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Harlan property: A new sediment-hosted gold discovery in the Selwyn Basin, Yukon
The Harlan property is a significant new sediment-hosted gold prospect within the Selwyn Basin of east-central Yukon Territory. The property has a large, kilometre-scale...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The magmatic and structural setting of the Brewery Creek gold mine, central Yukon
The Brewery Creek gold mine (13.3 Mt @ 1.44 g/t Au) is a bulk tonnage, heap leach operation located 57 km east of Dawson City, Yukon. The deposit lies on the northeastern side...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The McMillan Deposit - a stratabound lead-zinc-silver deposit in sedimentary...
The McMillan deposit is in the southern portion of the Logan Mountains, 65 km NE of Watson Lake. It is also referred to as the Quartz Lake deposit. Rocks hosting the deposit...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Origin and Setting of Anomalous Arc Magmatism in the Wrangell Volcanic...
In the Wrangell Volcanic Belt (WVB) a northwesterly increase in volume of calc-alkaline versus transitional (sodic alkaline/calc-alkaline) magmatism is accompanied by a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Pattison Creek pluton - a mineralized Casino Intrusion made bigger with...
Results from an airborne gamma ray and magnetics survey in the Dawson Range in west-central Yukon indicate that the Pattison Creek pluton may be larger than currently mapped....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Quaternary history and till geochemistry of the Anvil District,...
Till geochemistry and glacial geology have rarely been integrated into Yukon mineral exploration. In the Anvil District, thick glacial deposits have consistently hampered...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Thermal Maturation and Hydrocarbon Source Rock Potential of Tantalus...
Tantalus Formation strata at the Whitehorse coal deposit host eight coal zones of moderate to high ash, high rank coal, that range in thickenss from 0.15 to 12.8 m. Vitrinite...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Scheelite Dome gold project, central Yukon
La Teko Resources Ltd. acquired the Scheelite Dome gold property from Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc. in 1998. Kennecott had explored the central Yukon property since 1994....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Wernecke Breccias and Fe, Cu, U Mineralization: Quartet Mountain-Igor area (NTS 106E)
The "Wernecke Breccias" are enigmatic, but significant features of the Middle Proterozoic Wernecke Supergroup in the Wernecke and Ogilvie Mountains. This report describes the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
White channel gravel of the Klondike
The White Channel Gravel of the Klondike is an unconsolidated gravel preserved as erosional remnants lying on rock cut benches above younger streams. It contains important...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Wolf Lake project: Revision mapping of Dorsey Terrane assemblages in the...
The northern half of the Jennings River (104O) and southern half of the Wolf Lake (105B) map areas include polydeformed and metamorphosed rocks of the eastern Big Salmon...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Wolverine Massive Sulfide Project, Yukon
The Wolverine massive sulfide project lies within the Finlayson belt, an elongate composite body bound on the southwest by the Tintina Fault zone and on the northeast by the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Upper Paleozoic strata with potential for massive sulphide mineralization,...
Northwestern Lansing map area, 120 km east of Mayo, lacks known mineral occurrences yet contains upper Paleozoic stratigraphic units similar to those at volcanic-hosted and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Upper Triassic rocks at Hill 4308, Laberge map area, 105E, Yukon
Upper Triassic carbonate, volcanic and clastic rocks deposited in the Whitehorse Trough, a Mesozoic forearc basin, are well-exposed at Hill 4308. The deposition of these rocks...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Using GIS as a method of identifying controls on the distribution of...
The following paper outlines a method of identifying controls on the distribution of postglacial alpine sediments in the Selwyn Mountains using a Geographic Information System...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Volcanic-hosted epithermal gold-sulphide mineralization and associated...
The upper Sixtymile River area is located approximately 128 km west of Dawson City, Yukon. Lithology in this area consists of Precambrian to Paleozoic metamorphic rocks,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Volcanogenic iron and base metal occurrences in Klondike Schist
The term "Klondike Schist" describes metamorphosed igneous and sedimentary rocks first described from the Klondike area and later from south central Yukon. This paper describes...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Wolf property - 1998 update: Volcanogenic massive sulphides hosted by...
The Wolf property is situated within the Pelly Mountains, 90 km south of Ross River, Yukon. The Mississippian felsic volcanic and sedimentary rocks which underlie the Wolf...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML