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Placer Mining Settling Ponds (Volume 1) - Design Principles
This report reviews methods and criteria for placer mining settling pond design. The mining and processing of placer gold generates wastewaters containing high concentrations...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Residual total magnetic field, McQuesten Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 115I/13...
A map of the residual total magnetic field derived from data acquired by Goldak Airborne Surveys during the period of November 19, 2008 to February 19, 2009. Data were recorded...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New bedrock geology of Mount Mervyn map sheet (106C/04) and mineral...
An integrated bedrock mapping and regional soil sampling program in the Mount Mervyn map area (106C/04) was undertaken in 2010. It is the first year of a multi-year initiative...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Beneficiation of Barite Ore
High grade, bedded barite deposits occur in upper Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of the Earn Group in south-eastern Niddery Lake map area. Following discovery and initial...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Developing a new method to identify previously unrecognized geochemical and...
Placer gold is a notable resource in the western Yukon; however, identification of the lode sources feeding these placer deposits has been difficult. Previous studies have used...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Map of Slats Creek Map Area (106D/16), Wernecke Mountains, Yukon
Geological map (1:50,000 scale) of Slats Creek area, Wernecke Mountains, central Yukon (NTS 106D/16) including geological cross sections and mineral occurrences.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer Mining Settling Ponds (Volume 2) - Demonstration project methodology
This report is the second volume of a study on placer mining settling pond design. The first volume, 'Design Principles', reviewed methods and criteria for settling pond design...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New data on the geology and mineralization of the Skukum Creek gold-silver...
Detailed exploration conducted during 2006 in the western part of the Skukum Creek deposit has revealed new structural, mineralogical and geochemical features. The deposit...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A field, petrographic and preliminary S isotopic study of the Walt and...
The MacMillan Pass district (map sheet 105O) located in east Yukon contains several sedimenthosted Ba ± Zn ± Pb deposits including the Tom and Jason deposits, as well as a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
An Evaluation of Ground Penetrating Radar as a Tool in Placer Exploration
A test of ground penetrating radar (GPR) was conducted on 10 placer deposits throughout the Yukon in March 1993. At each site, profile surveys were conducted near known depths...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mass movement, seismicity and neotectonics in the northern St. Elias Mountains, Yukon
Canadian Theses Service/Service des thßeses canadiennes, BNC/National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0N4Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The three `Windy McKinley' terranes of Stevenson Ridge (115JK), western Yukon.
Rocks assigned to the Windy McKinley Terrane occur in Stevenson Ridge and Kluane map areas of western Yukon. Based on new mapping in Stevenson Ridge area, rocks mapped as Windy...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New insights into the geology and mineral potential of the Coast Belt in...
The southwestern Yukon Coast Belt mapping project is a joint Yukon Geological Survey/Geological Survey of Canada initiative operated under Natural Resources Canada’s GEM...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
2006 Regional Water Quality, Sediment and Benthic Invertebrate Assessment...
The Macmillan Pass in east-central Yukon (Figure 1) near the border with the Northwest Territories, is a highly mineralized area. The significant presence of metallic minerals...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geology map and till geochemistry of Blind Creek (105K/7 SW),...
Surficial geological map (1:25,000 scale) and till geochemistry (copper, lead and zinc) of Blind Creek area.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 -
Residual total magnetic field, McQuesten Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 115I/15, Yukon
A map of the residual total magnetic field derived from data acquired by Goldak Airborne Surveys during the period of November 19, 2008 to February 19, 2009. Data were recorded...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Debris flows along the Slims River valley, Kluane National Park, Yukon Territory
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Evidence for a late-McConnell readvance of the Cassiar Lobe in Seagull...
Drift prospecting in high relief areas of the Cordillera requires consideration of paleo-ice-flow reversals. This means rethinking the manner and degree to which glacial ice...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Williams Creek Project, Thermal Leach Project Test Heap Leach Project at...
An extensive heap leach field test was conducted during the 1993-1994 winter season at Carmacks, Yukon Territory. The test itself utilized an approximately 5-m-diameter crib...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML