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Placer gravels of Miller Creek, Sixtymile River area, 116 B,C
Within the Sixtymile River drainage basin, Quaternary placer deposits include tributary valley bottom gulch gravel, a broad main valley alluvial plain, and high level terrace...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
NH4 geochemistry near sedimentary exhalative deposits in Selwyn Basin: A...
Studies conducted on two Alaskan shale-hosted stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag deposits showed that the NH4 content of illites increased toward the ore bodies and might be used as an...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Norm Ross: A long way from the halfway
This article is an interview between the author and Norm Ross. Ross describes his involvement in Yukon's placer mining industry since 1980. He talks about the fluctuations in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Interpretation of a seismic refraction profile from the Richardson...
A copy of this thesis is available at the EMR library – QE195.O27 1990. This thesis is available online at https://doi.org/10.7939/R33R0Q41BDate updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Reed Creek property, southwestern Yukon
Placer mining on the Reed Creek property in the 1980's produced coarse, angular nuggets with adhering gangue material which resembles quartz-carbonate alteration outcropping on...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary investigation of the bedrock geology of the Livingstone Creek...
The Livingstone Creek area is underlain by metasedimentary and metaigneous rocks of Yukon-Tanana Terrane. It is intruded by at least five distinct suites of intrusive rocks of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Drift prospecting in the region of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane, southern Yukon
Regional till geochemistry surveys were conducted in the Finlayson Lake, Glenlyon and eastern Carmacks map areas. Detailed till sampling was completed at the Kudz Ze Kayah and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits of Clear Creek drainage basin 115 P, central Yukon
Placer gold in the Clear Creek drainage basin is found in a variety of gravel deposits, each of which is associated with a specific geological setting. The schematic profile of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary structural and kinematic analysis of mylonitic rocks of the...
The Teslin suture zone (TSZ) is a Late Triassic to mid-Jurassic subduction complex and forms the fundamental boundary between rocks deposited along the ancient western margin...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Proterozoic and Early Paleozoic volcanism in the Ogilvie Mountains: An...
Volcanic rocks in the Dawson map-area occur as isolated lenses within the early Paleozoic Selwyn Basin assemblage and as sets of flows and complexes within Proterozoic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sedimentology and stratigraphy of Duncan Creek placer deposits, Mayo, central Yukon
Placer deposits in the Mayo area occur in a wide variety of geomorphic settings, including alluvial fans, gulch gravels, valley-bottoms (alluvial plains), and bedrock terrace...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrology and geochemistry of the Pattison Alaskite Pluton, Yukon
The Pattison Pluton is a high level Tertiary subaluminous alaskite that is part of a northwest trending chain of igneous intrusions in the Yukon Crystalline Terrane,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Phosphorites, ironstones, and secondary phosphates in Mid-Cretaceous flysch...
The Blow River Formation was deposited in the Blow Trough, a north-trending, middle Cretaceous downwarp near the junction of the Western Canada Seaway and the Brooks and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Silver-lead-zinc deposits of the Keno Hill-Galena Hill area, central Yukon
The Keno Hill-Galena Hill area is underlain by Yukon Group metasedimentary rocks which form the southern flank of the McQuesten anticline in the area. A series of faults,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New paleontological investigations of upper Triassic shallow-water reef...
The thickest and best-developed Upper Triassic reef complex in the entire North American Cordillera is at Lime Peak in the southern Yukon. The Lime Peak reef complex is a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer geology of Black Hills Creek (Parts of 115 O/7 and 10)
Mapping in the Black Hills Creek drainage has identified auriferous gravel resources in valley bottom and terrace deposits of the main stream. Both low-level and high-level...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Permo-Triassic Isotopic Dates for Blueschist, Ross River Area, Yukon
Rb-Sr and K-Ar age determinations for muscovite-bearing blueschist in the Yukon Tanana terrane near Ross River indicate a minimum metamorphic age of approximately 250 Ma, and a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Origin of gold in the White Channel sediments of the Klondike region, Yukon Territory
Results of a study to determine the origin of alteration in the Plio-Pleistocene White Channel sediments and bedrock using field observations, mineralogical and geochemical...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Rare earth elements in the Guano-Guayes skarn property Pelly Mountains,...
The Guano-Guayes property, in the St Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains, covers a skarn about 300 m wide, 70 m thick and 1100 m long. Contact metasomatism of Silurian to Devonian...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Rock River Basin (NTS 95D/11 and 14)
Coal was discovered in the Rock River Basin by Sulpetro Minerals Ltd. In July 1980, and five holes sunk to delimit coal occurrences in September 1981. Samples were collected...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML