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Granite Pegmatites in the Canadian Cordillera, Yukon and Northwest Territories
In this report the authors describe the results of a research program on granitic pegamtites in Yukon and the western Northwest Territories. These unusual rocks are of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Granitic Pegmatites in Northwestern Canada
This report is one of a series on the results of research on granitic pegmatites in northwestern Canada. These unusual rocks are of scientific and economic interest for the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological map of the southern Campbell Range (NTS 105H/3 SW), southeastern Yukon
Schematic fold style, interpreted from fold geometry in outcrop and in thin section, rather than mapped structures. Jules Creek fault - possibly an Early Permian strikeslip...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Coal Inventory
Coal is found in Mississippian, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary non-marine sequences which underlie as much as 37,000 km² of the Yukon Territory (Long, 1985). However, very...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Geoscience - Looking to the Next Millennium
Four years after the first Yukon Geoscience Planning Workshop (the Marsh Lake Workshop, Yukon Geoscience - A Blueprint for the Future, Yukon Geology Program, March, 1995),...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mineralogical Analysis of Ore Specimens from the Rare Earth Deposits of...
A mineralogical study was conducted by the Applied Mineralogy Group on a niobium-bearing rare earth ore from the Lancer deposit in Yukon as a cost recovery project for Mr....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Exploration Criteria for Gemstone Deposits and their Application to Yukon Geology
This report focuses on a selection of some of the most valuable gemstones in the global gem trade; ruby, sapphire, emerald, chrysoberyl, tsavorite garnet, tanzanite, and the gem...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology 2006
The 2006 volume has four parts. The first - Mineral Industry - includes overviews of hardrock and placer mining, development and exploration in the Territory as well as a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A guide to soil sampling in Yukon
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Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106F (south...
This map of the magnetic total field was derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys during the period April 17, 2006 to...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Regional Stream Sediment and Water Geochemical Data, Southwestern Yukon...
GSC Open File 2859/EGSD Open File 2001-11(D) is a CD-ROM that presents analytical and statistical data for 36 elements (Ag, As, Au, Ba, Br, Cd, Ce, Co, Cr, Cs, Cu, Eu, Fe, Hf,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological setting of retrogressed eclogite and jade in the southern...
The southern Campbell Range is underlain by greenschist facies volcaniclastic, epiclastic and sedimentary units of the Tuchitua River and Money Creek formations. Stratigraphy is...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mineral Industry Report 1976
This report is a review of the Yukon mineral industry for 1976 by the Geology Section, Northern Natural Resources and Environment Branch, Department of Indian and Northern...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Investigating a Triassic overlap assemblage in Yukon: On-going field studies...
New field and detrital-zircon age data from the Selwyn basin indicate the Yukon-Tanana terrane (YTT) was a source region for Triassic sediments (Smithian Norian; conodont ages)...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Wernecke Mountain...
This map of the first vertical derivative of the magnetic field was derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys during the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Arsenic in Plants Important to Two Yukon First nations: Impacts of Gold...
This project examines arsenic in plants growing enar closed or reclaimed gold mines located in the traditional territories of two Yukon First Nations. A total of 238 soil and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Detoxifying Pit Lakes by Controlled Algal Blooms: Laboratory Study and Pilot...
When a mine closes, the open pit left behind often fills with water that washes metals from the pit walls. This water may be toxic and cannot be disharged without further...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bedrock Geology, Morris Lake (105B/5), southern Yukon (1:50,000 scale)
Between the Cretaceous granitic rocks (Hake Batholith on the west; Cassiar Batholith to the east) are three belts of metamorphic rocks, collectively part of Yukon-Tanana...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Active-layer detachments following the summer 2004 forest fires near Dawson...
Numerous active-layer detachments occurred in watersheds surrounding Dawson City following forest fires that burned the area during the summer of 2004. The distribution of these...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Aeromagnetic Total Field, Yukon Territory/Northwest Territories, 106K/NW-NE
This map was compiled from data obtained as a result of an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Goldak Airborne Surveys using two Piper Navajo aircraft.The survey operations were...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML