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Dan property, south Yukon
Massive black sphalerite occurs with pyrrhotite and magnetite in up to 3 irregular but roughly concordant layers at the contact between massive white marble and hard green and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Description of the Mount Skukum Volcanic Complex, southern Yukon
The Mount Skukum Volcanic Complex (MSVC) is the northernmost extension of the Sloko volcanic province in western British Columbia, a broad northwest-trending volcanic belt...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Development of Wernecke breccia in Slats Creek (106 D/16) map area, Wernecke...
Wernecke breccia comprises numerous intrusive hematitic breccia zones exposed in the Wernecke and Ogilvie mountains of central Yukon. The breccias were emplaced in Middle...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Differential uplift across the Coast Plutonic Complex-Northern Stikine...
Six fission-track analyses were conducted on samples taken across a fault in the Takhini Hotsprings area, Yukon. The results indicate that samples taken on the east side of the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Drift prospecting for gold in the Tintina Trench
Two tills and related deposits are the products of at least two ice advances over the Tintina Trench near Ross River, Yukon Territory. These ice advances are termed the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Drilling techniques and evaluation of placer gold deposits
Even though standard churn drilling techniques may be recommended in placer gold sampling programs, other methods may prove to be more satisfactory. It is necessary that other...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Element distribution in Yukon gold-silver deposits
One third of the gold and gold-silver deposits in Yukon were examined and sampled in 1980 to establish a framework of geology and rock chemistry from which variations within...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Enhanced landsat thematic mapper imagery for exploration geology in the...
Digitally enhanced Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery was evaluated as a mapping aid for exploration geology in the Wheaton River District of the southern Yukon. Landsat TM...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Epigenetic mineral deposits of the Ketza-Seagull district, Yukon
Most epigenetic occurrences of gold and silver in the Pelly Mountains of central Yukon form two adjacent clusters at the headwaters of the Ketza River and Seagull Creek. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Evidence of hydrothermal alteration in White Channel sediments and bedrock...
A post-depositional hydrothermal alteration product in White Channel sediments and underlying bedrock is divided into 3 zones. These zones, termed the Bleached Zone, the Iron...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 -
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...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Facies and Depositional Setting of Laberge Conglomerates (Jurassic),...
The Whitehorse Trough, south-central Yukon, originated as a Mesozoic fore-arc basin separating the allochthonous Stikine Terrane to the west from the North American craton....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Finlayson project: Geological evolution of Yukon-Tanana Terrane and its...
Geological mapping in Wolverine Lake area has outlined new Yukon-Tanana Terrane stratigraphy, constrained the stratigraphic position of the Wolverine Lake volcanogenic massive...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Felsic metavolcanic rocks at Matt Berry: A new deposit model
Exhalative Pb-Zn-Cu mineralization of the Matt Berry deposit is hosted in polydeformed black shale that is underlain by a strongly deformed felsic schist. The copper-rich...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Mapping in the Campbell Range, Southeastern Yukon (Parts of 105...
The Finlayson Lake fault zone forms the boundary between autochthonous North American rocks and rocks of the innermost accreted Slide Mountain and Yukon-Tanana terranes in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological overview of Clear Creek map area (NTS 115P/14), western Selwyn Basin
Clear Creek map area of central Yukon is underlain by deformed and metamorphosed Proterozoic and Paleozoic rocks of western Selwyn Basin (Hyland Group, unnamed carbonate unit,...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 -
Geological Setting of Mineral Occurrences in Fairchild Lake Map Area...
The Fairchild Lake map area is underlain by two principal sedimentary successions, Middle Proterozoic Wernecke Supergroup and unconformably overlying Middle to Late Proterozoic...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