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Surficial Geology of Granite Creek (part of NTS 105M/14 and 105M/15)
The Granite Creek map area includes the southwestern section of the Gustavus Range. This area hosts summits approximately 2000 m in elevation. Granite and Albert creeks drain...Date updated: 2024-10-04Date created: 2023-06-30Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope signature of Carboniferous and older...
The Yukon-Tanana terrane in Yukon, Canada, records Late Devonian (ca. 366–360 Ma) rifting and the onset of latest Devonian–Carboniferous arc and back-arc magmatism (ca. 360–325...Date updated: 2024-05-29Date created: 2023-11-14Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Early Ordovician seamounts preserved in the Canadian Cordillera:...
The breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia and development of the western Laurentian rifted margin are in part recorded by Neoproterozoic to mid-Paleozoic igneous and...Date updated: 2024-05-29Date created: 2023-11-14Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New minerals legislation – engagement materials
Discussion papers and infosheets related to the 2023 new minerals legislation. Documents de consultation et fiches d’information sur la nouvelle législation sur les ressources...Date updated: 2024-05-16Date created: 2023-02-07Publisher: EnvironmentFormat: PDF -
Clinton Creek mine site reports
Historical and current reports on remediation efforts at the Clinton Creek abandoned mine site.Date updated: 2023-10-05Date created: 2023-02-03Publisher: Energy, Mines and ResourcesFormat: PDF -
Analysis of geoscience data for geothermal exploration along the Teslin...
In collaboration with the Yukon Geological Survey, Teslin Tlingit Council, and other project partners, Innovate Geothermal Ltd. performed an analysis of geoscience data in...Date updated: 2023-09-07Date created: 2023-09-07Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geology and geohazards of the greater Whitehorse area.
Remote predictive community-scale surficial geology mapping was completed for the greater Whitehorse area, through desktop interpretation of recent high-resolution imagery...Date updated: 2023-03-21Date created: 2023-03-21Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Bathymetry Maps and Data
Distributed by Yukon department of environment from 1990s to 2010s The Yukon Bathymetry Maps and associated data have been removed from distribution due to excessively poor...Date updated: 2023-03-08Date created: 2023-03-07Publisher: EnvironmentFormat: PDF -
Magmatic-hydrothermal deposits in central Yukon: Variations on a theme
This field trip guidebook was prepared for the 100th Anniversary Meeting of the Society of Economic Geologists originally planned to be held in Whistler, British Columbia,...Date updated: 2023-01-31Date created: 2023-01-31Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon hard rock mining, development and exploration overview 2022
Yukon mineral exploration activity in 2022 normalized, somewhat, as the restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic abated. However, headwinds remained for explorers in...Date updated: 2023-01-20Date created: 2023-01-20Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Mineral Exploration Program 2022 update
The Yukon Mineral Exploration Program (YMEP) is a Government of Yukon funding program designed to support individual prospectors, partnerships and companies. The funding...Date updated: 2023-01-20Date created: 2023-01-20Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Geological Survey 2022 overview
This overview provides a summary of research highlights for 2022. Many of the projects described here are presented in more detail in the Yukon Exploration and Geology...Date updated: 2023-01-20Date created: 2023-01-20Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2022
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Yukon placer mining 2022 development and exploration overview
Placer mining in the Yukon remains a strong and innovative industry, and has the potential for a modern record-high reporting this season. The number of active operations is...Date updated: 2023-01-20Date created: 2023-01-20Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology 2022
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Mapping the rate of change of select glaciers using satellite and...
Glacier mass loss is accelerating throughout Yukon. This mass loss is confirmed by multiple studies and methods. New remotely-sensed and field-measured terminus retreat rates...Date updated: 2023-01-19Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary double-difference relocation earthquake catalogue for...
Southwestern Yukon is a seismically active zone of crustal deformation including multiple large, dextral strike-slip fault systems with overlapping activity. In this study, we...Date updated: 2023-01-19Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Fracture network analysis in the Duke River area, southwestern Yukon
Deep geothermal reservoir potential depends on the local temperature gradient and host rock permeability. In areas with low primary porosity, such as the Duke River area,...Date updated: 2023-01-19Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Sunnydale landslide, current understanding and research, Dawson (NTS 116B/3)
The Sunnydale landslide is a slow-moving rock-slope deformation on the western bank of the Yukon River directly across from Dawson, Yukon. While recent data suggest...Date updated: 2023-01-19Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A preliminary geological interpretation of the Mount Grant–Evelyn Creek...
The Evelyn Creek–Mount Grant area includes a large region of igneous and meta-igneous rocks; here termed the Mount Grant batholith. The batholith comprises mostly deformed...Date updated: 2023-01-19Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML