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Keno Hill Mining Camp
This Miscellaneous Report includes the presentation that was prepared to accompany the release of YGS Open File 2020-42, Geology of the Keno Hill district by Peter Read, Al...Date updated: 2021-03-26Date created: 2021-03-26Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic basin evolution in the Coal Creek inlier...
for a copy of this paper please contact the Yukon Geological Survey; geology@gov.yk.ca.Date updated: 2021-03-10Date created: 2021-03-10Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Aggregate potential mapping centred on Yukon communities and highway corridors
Aggregate potential was analyzed and classified for a four-kilometre corridor centred on Yukon highways and in a 20 km radius around Yukon communities excluding Whitehorse to...Date updated: 2021-03-05Date created: 2021-03-05Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bedrock geology map of the Nadaleen-Anubis fault corridor, eastern Rackla...
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Yukon hard rock mining, development and exploration overview 2020
Yukon mineral exploration activity was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions early in the year. As the summer began, exploration and...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Geological Survey 2020 overview
Like everywhere else around the world, 2020 was underscored in Yukon by the sudden spread of the COVID-19 virus and the drastic social and economic changes it precipitated. For...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon placer mining 2020 development and exploration overview
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic recession has had a profound impact on Canada and the world. In Yukon, the tourism industry nearly vanished overnight as flights...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Mineral Exploration Program 2020 update
The Yukon Mineral Exploration Program (YMEP) is a funding program which provides financial support to proponents exploring for minerals in Yukon. Individual prospectors,...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geological mapping of the central Kluane Ranges (parts of NTS...
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: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New geochemistry from old drill holes at the Tom property, Macmillan Pass, Yukon
This paper presents new data from historical drill core and outcrop specimens from Macmillan Pass, Yukon. Whole rock lithogeochemical data are presented from analyses of core...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Potential heat production from the Seagull and Teslin plutonic suites,...
Cretaceous granitoid plutons of the Seagull and Teslin plutonic suites, east of Teslin, are evaluated for their potential radiogenic heat production. The Seagull suite comprises...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Update on the bedrock geology of the Rusty Mountain area, southern Wernecke...
The Rusty Mountain area is underlain by sedimentary strata of the Paleoproterozoic Wernecke Supergroup, Mesoproterozoic Pinguicula Group, Neoproterozoic Hematite Creek Group and...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Updated geology of the Clark Lakes area in central Yukon (parts of 106D/2,...
The Clark Lakes area is located along the northern boundary of the Selwyn fold belt, and is underlain by the Ediacaran to Cambrian Hyland Group. In the surrounding region, the...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The geometry and kinematic history of Cordilleran deformation at the...
The shale-hosted massive sulphide Zn-Pb deposits of Howard’s Pass were deposited during the Silurian and subsequently deformed during the Cretaceous Cordilleran orogeny. A...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Structural geology of the eastern Richardson Mountains, Yukon and Northwest...
The Richardson anticlinorium is a major tectonic feature marking the eastern limit of the Cordilleran orogen in northern Yukon and Northwest Territories. Limited structural...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary investigation of geological controls on radon concentration in...
Although the presence of radon has been reported in Yukon, the controls on radon soil gas fluxes in Yukon have not been studied. Here we report 328 radon concentration...Date updated: 2021-01-18Date created: 2021-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Macroscopic control on Carlin-type gold mineralization in north-central Yukon
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Yukon Exploration and Geology 2020
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Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2020
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Northern Cordillera: Canada and Alaska
for a copy of this paper please contact the Yukon Geological Survey; geology@gov.yk.ca.Date updated: 2020-12-17Date created: 2020-12-17Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML