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Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2024
Yukon Exploration and Geology (YEG) papers and the Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview are two of the main publications of the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS; Energy, Mines...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-17Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon placer mining 2024 development and exploration overview
The Yukon placer industry has continued to thrive amid strong and rising gold prices. There was a slight increase in activity this past season. A total of 156 operations were...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Geological Survey 2024 overview
The Yukon Geological Survey (YGS) has seen significant change over the last year, with eight new staff joining the team in 2024. This change has brought some new energy to the...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon hardrock mining, development and exploration overview 2024
The Yukon hardrock mineral exploration sector continued to thrive in 2024 with the release of exciting results and the announcement of seven new mineral resources. Although...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Geological Survey’s outreach program: 2024 highlights
The Yukon Geological Survey (YGS), a branch within the Government of Yukon, is dedicated to advancing our understanding of Yukon’s geology and disseminating this knowledge to...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Stratigraphic context for reef-building microbialites in the Tonian Reefal...
The Tonian Period (1000–720 Ma) likely represents a critical transition in microbial reef construction, given the emergence of reefs built by thrombolites and other...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Western Arctic Regional Network of Seismographs (WARNS): History, challenges...
The Western Arctic Regional Network of Seismographs (WARNS) is a collection of 20 seismic stations that addresses critical gaps in the seismic network coverage in northwestern...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Thermal imagery and lidar monitoring of ground instability on the Alaska...
Permafrost is integral to the landscape of the Yukon, and influences hydrology and ecology, and impacts infrastructure. Accelerated permafrost thaw due to climate change poses...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Valley deposit: A geological introduction and overview
The Valley deposit is located in east-central Yukon, 367 km northeast of Whitehorse. In 2012, Golden Predator Mining Corp. originally sampled gold-mineralized quartz veins in...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology 2024
The Yukon Exploration and Geology (YEG) volumes include two publications: Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview, and Yukon Exploration and Geology Technical Papers. These key...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and mineralization of the AurMac metasediment-hosted gold deposits,...
The AurMac property, located 35 km north of Mayo in central Yukon, includes two metasedimentary rock-hosted gold deposits: the 6158 koz Au Powerline deposit and the 845 koz Au...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geochemistry and geochronology of Cambrian and Upper Ordovician mafic...
Neoproterozoic to lower Paleozoic basin and platform strata that formed during and after rifting along the western Laurentian margin are preserved in the northern Cordillera....Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-01-28Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial Geology of the Central Kluane Ranges (parts of NTS 115B/15, 16 and...
Surficial geological mapping in the central Kluane Ranges was undertaken to better understand the distribution and character of surficial materials. Upland surficial materials...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-03-27Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Crustal stress near the Yakutat microplate collision from probabilistic...
Earthquake source characteristics provide a valuable constraint on crustal stress and regional plate tectonics. Earthquake source studies in Yukon and northern British Columbia...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-04-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology, Petrology and Geochronology of the Late Cretaceous Klaza Epithermal...
Geologic understanding of the richly mineralized Dawson Range gold belt (DRGB) in the central Yukon, Canada is hindered by: (1) limited outcrop exposure due to thick soil...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-04-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Cenozoic faulting in the Upper Hyland River Valley, Southeastern Yukon: A...
The Logan fault is one of many dextral faults that strike generally parallel to the northwest trend of the Northern Canadian Cordillera. Though widely documented, the timing...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-04-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary observations from four reduced intrusion-related gold deposits,...
Host rocks, veins and alteration in reduced intrusion-related gold (RIRG) deposits display similar features and distribution across the Tombstone gold belt (TGB). The primary...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-04-17Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Placer Mining Industry 2021 to 2023
The Yukon Placer Mining Industry report reflects the strong relationship between the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS) and the Yukon placer mining industry. Our annual tours into...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-05-09Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Cambrian and Ordovician Alkalic Magmatism Along the Dawson Fault,...
Lower Paleozoic continental margin rocks of the North American Cordillera, from Yukon to Nevada, include coeval platformal carbonate and basinal clastic strata that are offset...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-05-16Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New geochronological and geochemical data for Permian rocks of the western...
New U-Pb zircon dates from Permian rocks of the Yukon-Tanana terrane in the Klondike district of western Yukon provide new constraints on timing of intrusions and deposition....Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-06-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML