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Yukon Mining, Development & Exploration Overview 2005
This volumes contains overviews on Yukon Mining, Development and Exploration, Placer Mining, Mining Incentives Program, and activities of the Yukon Geological Survey....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of Joe Mountain map area, southern Yukon Territory, 1:50,000-scale...
Geological map including geological cross sections and mineral occurrences.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Gold-sulphide enrichment processes in mesothermal veins of the Sixtymile...
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 -
Local Scale Biophysical Mapping for Integrated Resource Management, Watson...
Biophysical or ecosystem mapping is built on the principle that vegetation composition and distribution responds in predictable ways to specific abiotic terrain conditions....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
High level terraces along Lower Stewart River and parts of Yukon River
Surficial geology mapping of the lower Stewart River valley has revealed sets of high level terraces formed when the paleo-Stewart River and the paleo-Yukon River were at...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Progress report on the Clinton Creek asbestos project
Country rocks in the project area are metamorphic rocks of the Yukon Group whose age, though uncertain, is believed to be late Precambrian and/or early Paleozoic. Several small...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Interlayered sedimentary-volcanic sequence, Mt. Skukum volcanic complex
The Eocene Skukum volcanic complex, 60 km south-southwest of Whitehorse, is elliptical in plan, covers an area of about 140 km², and unconformably overlies Cretaceous granitic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Minor elements in sphalerite from carbonate-hosted zinc-lead deposits, Yukon...
Minor element concentrations in sphalerite from carbonate-hosted zinc-lead deposits in the Northern Cordillera have been determined to define the metallogeny of this remote...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Flex gold-silver vein system, Mount Nansen area, Yukon
The Flex Gold-Silver deposit is a multiple vein epithermal system found within the Mount Nansen precious metal trend. High-grade gold and silver values are associated with...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Mount M'Clintock Map Area (105D/16), Southern Yukon Territory
The Mount M'Clintock map area, northeast of Whitehorse, is dominated by Middle Triassic to Jurassic sedimentary and volcanic strata of Stikinia with small portions of the Cache...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Goz Creek zinc deposit, Yukon Territory
In June 1973, abundant dolostone rubble and stream debris mineralized with sphalerite was found in several tributaries of Goz Creek in a remote part of the eastern Yukon near...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Lithogeochemistry of meta-volcanic rocks from Yukon-Tanana Terrane,...
In this paper, we present a preliminary assessment of the lithogeochemical characteristics of meta-volcanic rocks in the Finlayson Lake region. Unit 2 mafic meta-volcanic rocks...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of pyrite-sphalerite-galena concentrations in Proterozoic quartzite...
The Quartz Lake sedimentary hosted lead-zinc occurrence is 70 km northeast of Watson Lake. Proterozoic rocks of the area are divided into three groups of argillite, quartzite...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of Seagull Tin District
The Seagull District is noted for its tungsten, tin, molybdenum, lead, zinc, gold and silver bearing skarn, vein and porphyry deposits which are associated with Cretaceous...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Gold-sulphide quartz veins in metamorphic rocks as a possible source for...
The Livingstone Creek area is located 100 km northeast of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. Hydrothermal gold-sulphide mineralization (MINFILE 105E 001) occurs in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Plata-Inca gold-silver veins, Yukon
Latest (?) Proterozoic to Earliest Cambrian and Devonian to (?) Mississippian strata, and a Cretaceous or Early Tertiary porphyry dyke underlie the Plata-Inca property. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Metal-ratio zonation in the Keno Hill district, central Yukon
Silver has been won from narrow vein faults in the Keno Hill district for nearly 70 years. During this period, 3.9 million tonnes (4.3 million tons) of ore have yielded 5754...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
King Arctic property, southeastern Yukon
Nephrite occurs with sheared ultramafic rocks along the Campbell Highway. For the past several years, small scale mining on the King Arctic property has been carried out.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mineral zoning in the Keno Hill silver-lead-zinc mining district, Yukon
The Keno Hill-Galena Hill mining district of central Yukon has been a prolific silver-lead-zinc producer since the early part of the century. Typical orebodies are extensive...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Matt Berry property, southeastern Yukon
The Matt Berry deposit consists of roughly concordant layers of massive galena, sphalerite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite in Paleozoic phyllite. Drill-indicated reserves in 1979...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML