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Flying in sheep country: How to minimize disturbance from aircraft
Concern about aircraft disturbance of Dall sheep and other wildlife continues to grow in the Yukon. Aircraft-based tourism, both sightseeing and outdoor adventures in remote...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Follow-up Monitoring: Shrub Trial Plots at Brewery Creek Mine and...
Two MERG-sponsored mine reclamation projects were surveyed during the summer of 2002. These included the Brewery Creek Mine where local shrubs were planted in large open areas...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Natural Attenuation of Aqueous Zinc in Shallow Soils over Permafrost...
This study investigated the natural attenuation of zinc in mine drainage at the Galkeno 300 mine site, located at the northern limit of the discontinuous permafrost zine in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer geology and prospective exploration targets of Sixtymile River area,...
Sixtymile River alluvial deposits can be subdivided into four main types, on the basis of age and physiographic setting. These are pre-Reid and older; interglacial (prior to...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Summary of Rock-Eval data for the Whitehorse trough, Yukon: implications...
Whitehorse Trough is a frontier basin in south-central Yukon that is thought to contain gas and possibly oil. Over 400 samples from the Whitehorse Trough have been analysed by...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sedimentology, stratigraphy and source rock potential of the Richthofen...
Whitehorse Trough is a frontier basin in south-central Yukon that is thought to contain gas and possibly oil. It formed in the early Triassic as an arc-marginal basin between...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Shaded Magnetic First Vertical Derivative, Yukon Territory/Northwest...
This map was compiled from data obtained as a result of an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys using a Cessna Caravan aircraft. A 0.005 nT sensitivity...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Shaded Magnetic First Vertical Derivative, Yukon Territory, NTS 106F/NE-NW
This map was compiled from data obtained as a result of an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys using a Cessna Caravan aircraft. A 0.005 nT sensitivity...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Shaded Magnetic First Vertical Derivative, Yukon Territory, NTS 106L/NE-NW
This map was compiled from data obtained as a result of an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys using a Cessna Caravan aircraft. A 0.005 nT sensitivity...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Whitehorse Copper Belt - An annotated geology map
This publication is a field guide to the geology and mining history of the Whitehorse Copper Belt. It is designed to assist Whitehorse residents and visitors in exploring this...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Till geochemistry of the Finlayson Lake (105G), Glenlyon (105L) and east...
This open file contains a compilation of the till geochemistry data for two regions of southern Yukon: 1) Finlayson Lake (105G) and, 2) Glenlyon (105L) and east Carmacks (115I)...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Unconformity-related uranium potential: clues from Wernecke Breccia, Yukon
Unconformity-related uranium deposits are best known from the Athabasca Basin, Canada and the Pine Creek area of Australia. In both regions, fault-controlled mineralization is...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Digital Geology (version 2)
Yukon Digital Geology presents a variety of geoscience data sets in digital format on the geology of Yukon. Included are syntheses of bedrock geology and glacial limits,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology 2002
Yukon Exploration and Geology (YEG) is the main publication of the Yukon Geology Program (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Yukon Government). This is the 25th volume of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology 2003
YEG 2003 contains up-to-date information on mining and mineral exploration activity, studies by industry, and results of recent geological field studies. Information in this...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology 2005
The 2005 volume has four parts. The first Mineral Industry includes overviews of hardrock and placer mining, development and exploration in the territory as well as a summary...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Regional Mineral Potential by Deposit Models 2003
Contains PDF maps of regional mineral potential by deposit models for Yukon. Also included is a PDF document containing methodology, limitations, and a description of the data...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A Transect Across Northern Stikinia: Geology of the Northern Whitehorse Map...
Results from the geological mapping of four 1:50 000 map areas (NTS 105D/13-16) north of Whitehorse are presented. The maps form a transect across the northern portion of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Compositional studies of placer and lode gold from western Yukon:...
On-going compositional studies of gold from placer and lode deposits and occurrences in western Yukon provide new insights into their nature and origin. Two main compositional...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, McQuesten Aeromagnetic...
Map of the first vertical derivative of the magnetic field derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Goldak Airborne Surveys from November 19,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML