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Yukon Mineral Deposits Summary 2023
This publication is intended as a snapshot of the hard rock mineral resources of Yukon. It is up-to-date as of December 1, 2023. The tables herein have been compiled from...Date updated: 2024-01-17Date created: 2024-01-17Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon critical minerals inventory 2021
This report is intended as a general reference document on Yukon’s critical mineral endowment and potential. It provides some background on critical minerals, and for clarity it...Date updated: 2023-12-12Date created: 2021-11-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
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 -
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 Yukon:...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 technical...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, large-...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 acceleration...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 -
Geomorphic assessment of Tsälnjik Chú (Nordenskiold River) near Carmacks,...
River course migration is controlled by discharge, sediment supply, and bank vegetation, and its study informs watershed responses to environmental stressors like climate change...Date updated: 2023-01-19Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Improvements in the regional earthquake focal mechanism catalogue for...
Earthquake source characteristics provide a valuable constraint on fault behaviour, crustal stress, and regional plate tectonics. In southwestern Yukon, a region of complex...Date updated: 2023-01-19Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Analysis of geoscience data for geothermal exploration along the Tintina...
In collaboration with the Yukon Geological Survey, Liard First Nation and other project partners, Innovate Geothermal Ltd. performed an analysis of geoscience data in...Date updated: 2022-12-29Date created: 2022-12-29Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geological map of the Castle Mountain area, central Yukon (parts...
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