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Enhancing Natural Succession on Yukon Mine Tailings Sites: A low-input...
The revegetation of northern tailings sites presents many challenges. By using plants, which are naturally adapted to both the tailings environment and northern climatic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Report on the Detailed Mineral Assessment of the Proposed Pickhandle Lakes...
The proposed Pickhandle Lakes Special Management Area (SMA) consists of 50.2 square kilometers in southwestern Yukon on NTS map sheet 115F/16. The Yukon and Canadian...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Monitoring of Low Permeability Cover Performance, Arctic Gold and Silver...
The production of acid rock drainage (ARD) from mine tailings is a significant environmental concern at various abandoned mine sites in Yukon. Leachate with low pH and high...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Investigations of 2000 RGS survey Northern Yukon, Eagle Plains Ecoregion
Fieldwork was completed in July/August, 2001 in northern Yukon. Fieldwork included investigating results from the stream sediment geochemical survey commissioned to the GSC in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Report on the Detailed Mineral Assessment of the Proposed Lewes...
The Government of Yukon, Government of Canada, the Kwanlin Dun First Nation and the Carcross Tagish First Nation agreed to create a 20.02 square kilometres Special Management...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Reference Condition Approach Bioassessment of Yukon River Basin Placer...
An Integrated Regulatory Regime for Yukon Placer Mining was the final report of the Yukon Placer Implementation Steering Committee, submitted to the Minister of Fisheries in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Reconnaissance geological and geochemical studies of the Joe Mountain...
The Joe Mountain area of the Yukon contains Middle Triassic to Upper Triassic volcanic, sedimentary and intrusive rocks of the Stikine Terrane. The Ladinian (~237 to 228 Ma)...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mineral Assessment of the Eagle Plain Study Area, Yukon.
This report outlines the results and the conclusions of a study of the mineral potential of the Eagle Plains area. The accompanying mineral potential map ranks the different...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Report on the Detailed Mineral Assessment of the Proposed Kusawa Natural...
The proposed Kusawa Special Management Area (SMA) consists of 3118.6 km2 in southwestern Yukon. A map notation in 1972 denoting Kusawa Lake and the surrounding area as a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Heavy Metals and Acid Rock Drainage: A Select Literature Review of...
EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd. has prepared this report, based on literature review, to provide information to assist the Yukon mining industry in remediating environmental...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Airborne Electromagnetic and Magnetic Survey, Jakes Corner Project, Yukon
Digital data from airborne EM and MAG geophysical surveys of the Jakes Corner Project, southwestern Yukon (NTS 105D/8,9 and 105C/5,12). Files include GEOSOFT XYZ files (with...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Natural Vegetation Succession & Sustainable Reclamation at Yukon Mine and...
In the Yukon, the goal of most reclamation programs is to return disturbed lands as close to their original wildlands state as is feasible. The revegetation process, an...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Moss Mats as Medium for Stream Sediment Geochemistry
This project involved the collection of moss mat samples from sites throughout Yukon. Sites included: Laura Creek, which drains Brewery Creek gold deposit; Logjam Creek,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Utilizing Volcanic Ash as a Natural Flocculant in Placer Settling Ponds
Under existing regulations, the discharge or effluent from placer miners¿ settling ponds must meet certain standards for the amount of clay and silt in suspension (suspended...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Adit Ice Plug Prevention
Many adits in the Yukon have water flowing from them in winter, which freezes and builds up like a road glacier. Ice completely blocks the adit and dams water behind it,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Faro Tailings Area Downhole Geophysics Program to Study Contaminant Plumes, Yukon
A Geophysical Program was conducted at 5 groundwater monitoring wells on March 4, 2000 at the Faro Tailings Area, Rose Creek, Faro, Yukon under the auspices of the Yukon...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial Geological Map of Stewart River Valley (parts of 115O/2, 3, 6 and 7)
Surficial geological map (1:50,000 scale) of Stewart River Valley, central Yukon parts of NTS map sheets 115O/2,3,6,7 including marginal notes on surficial geology,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Faro Down Valley Tailings Research Program Report: Tailings Reprocessing...
The Faro Down Valley Tailing Ponds contain residual quantity of minerals that have a total value of more than a billion dollars, however, only a portion of these minerals may...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Experimental Reclamation Project, Shrub Trial Plots - Brewery Creek Mine
In September 2000, eleven shrub species were planted in experimental plots at three different areas of the Brewery Creek Gold Mine near the Klondike River. All of these shrub...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer Gold Dredging Using an Excavator and Floating Processing Plant
This report provides information on a method of placer gold dredging. This dredging method differs from conventional bucket line gold dredging in that it uses a combination of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML