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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 -
Magma genesis along an arc-transform transition zone
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Preliminary geology north of Mount Mye, Anvil District (105K/6, 105K/7),...
The northeast Anvil area, 15 km north of Mount Mye (NTS 105K/6, 105K/7), is underlain by a conformable Cambrian-Devonian volcanic and sedimentary package with an aggregate...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
So you want to go mining in the Yukon, eh?
Many people who want to get started placer mining in the Yukon have questions about many things including cost, types of equipment, government regulations, and of course,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Nature of the Robert Service Thrust on Fork Plateau and implications for...
Revision geological mapping has shown that the Robert Service Thrust is imbricated and isoclinally folded in Mayo map area. On Fork Plateau, highly deformed Keno Hill quartzite...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Tectonic analysis of the Nisling, northern Stikine and northern Cache Creek...
A copy of this thesis is available at the EMR library – QE187 J32. This thesis is available online at https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/185864.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of the Thirty-Seven Mile Creek map sheet (105 D/13)
Thirty-Seven Mile Creek map area, northwest of Whitehorse, straddles the contact between Coast Plutonic Complex and rocks attributed to northern Stikine Terrane. Late Triassic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Natural revegetation of placer mine tailings near Mayo, central Yukon
Placer mining occurs extensively in parts of the Yukon, denuding riparian zones and lining valley bottoms with mine tailings. Revegetation of tailings was examined at two...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Overview of Yukon placer geology, gold production and prospects
The physiography and glacial history of Yukon bear directly on the geological setting, grade and economic viability of Yukon placer deposits. The limits of several advances of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary Geology of the Northeast Third of Grass Lakes Map Area (105G/7),...
The northeast corner of Grass Lakes map area is underlain by polydeformed metasedimentary, metavolcanic and metaplutonic rocks of Yukon-Tanana Terrane, and ultramafic rocks of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleomagnetic Study of the mid-Cretaceous Mount McIntyre pluton, Whitehorse...
The paleomagnetic signature of the mid-Cretaceous Mount McIntyre Pluton, west of Whitehorse, was evaluated to develop a better understanding of the motion history of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Soil Geochemistry above Deeply Weathered Porphyry Deposits in Unglaciated...
Much of west-central Yukon escaped glaciation and is underlain by leached and oxidized, deeply weathered bedrock. Background and anomalous metal values in these soils are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sluicing in the Yukon Territory - 1984
In the Yukon, the relatively low initial cost, high concentrating ratio, durability, high throughput, ease of use and acceptable recovery rates are reasons the sluice, in its...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrology & geology of high level rhyolite intrusives of the Skukum area,...
The Skukum area is located 58 km south-southwest of Whitehorse. It is an elliptical area of volcanic rocks, Tertiary in age, and surrounded by hypabyssal rhyolite intrusives....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrographic and geochemical evidence for a hydrothermal origin of the Rusty...
The Rusty Springs prospect is a carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposit in the northern Ogilvie Mountains. It is hosted in medium to coarsely crystalline grey dolostone and dolostone...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary report on early Tertiary clastics, west-central Yukon
Examination of Early Tertiary clastic rocks in the Indian and Sixty Mile River areas has revealed that: 1) sediments are arranged in fining-upward sequences and are dominated...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Mineral Deposit Profiles
The deposit models project is an attempt to classify the many known metallic mineral deposits and occurrences in Yukon into specific mineral deposit models. This work began...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Wisconsinan McConnell ice-flow and sediment distribution patterns in...
Late Wisconsinan McConnell glaciation (ca. 24-11 ka) occurred in four phases in the Pelly Mountains of southern Yukon. Phase 1 marked the onset of ice accumulation in cirques...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Wisconsinan McConnell glaciation of the Whitehorse map area (105D), Yukon.
Ice accumulations in the Coast Mountains of southwestern Yukon and the Cassiar Mountains of south-central Yukon during the late Wisconsinan were responsible for glaciation of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML