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Summary of DGGS investigations at Livengood, Alaska: Geology, mineral...
The results of the DGGS investigation at Livengood, Alaska include bedrock geologic maps, a surficial geologic map, a detailed prospect examination and analyses of about 2000...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Scheelite Dome gold project, central Yukon
La Teko Resources Ltd. acquired the Scheelite Dome gold property from Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc. in 1998. Kennecott had explored the central Yukon property since 1994....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Stratigraphy and alteration of the White Channel gravel at Dago Hill, a...
The high level bench gravels of the Klondike region were first described by R.G. McConnell. He divided the gravels into two formations; the older and stratigraphically lower...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The setting of the volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits in the Finlayson...
The definition of regionally extensive stratigraphy in deformed and metamorphosed rocks of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane in the Finlayson Lake district allows the recognition of at...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Upper Triassic rocks at Hill 4308, Laberge map area, 105E, Yukon
Upper Triassic carbonate, volcanic and clastic rocks deposited in the Whitehorse Trough, a Mesozoic forearc basin, are well-exposed at Hill 4308. The deposition of these rocks...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The sedimentology of Pleistocene deposits associated with placer gold...
Due to the depletion of traditional economic gold placer deposits in unglaciated areas of the Yukon, the study of the relationship of placer gravels to overlying glacial...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon-Tanana Terrane in southwestern Frances Lake area (105H/3, 4 and 5),...
Yukon-Tanana Terrane (YTT) in Frances Lake area consists of three domains: the Money/Jules Creek thrust sheet, the foot wall of the Jules Creek thrust, and a northeastern...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Climatic conditions in the western and northern Cordillera during the last...
In the southern Cordillera, paleoecological evidence suggests that climate was variable, from cooler than present by up to 3°C, to possibly similar to modern during the Olympia...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Stewart River placer project, west-central Yukon
The Stewart River map area (115 O&N) is the most important historic and current placer gold producing region in the Yukon. Unfortunately, the historic placer-gold deposits are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Textural characteristics of the Venus vein and implications for ore shoot...
Underground observations indicate Venus formed from hydrothermal solutions by both open space filling and replacement processes. Quartz deposition was ubiquitous throughout the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Tectonic Setting of the Aishihik Batholith, SW Yukon
The Aishihik Batholith is comprised of foliated and lineated, equigranular hornblende granodiorite and crystallized at about 216 Ma. The batholith is in contact to the west...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ancient Pacific Margin - An update on stratigraphic comparison of potential...
Now in its second year, the Ancient Pacific Margin National Mapping (NATMAP) project continues to make progress in elucidating the stratigraphic framework of Yukon-Tanana...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Fer property: A plutonic-related gold property in southeastern Yukon
The Fer gold property lies only 5 kilometres southwest of the Nahanni Range Road (Highway 10) in southeastern Yukon. It is underlain by a broadly folded sequence of coarse...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Stratigraphy and regional implications of unstrained Devono-Mississippian...
Relatively unstrained Devonian-Mississippian volcanic and volcano-sedimentary rocks have been documented in the Money Creek thrust sheet in Finlayson Lake map area. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Origin and Setting of Anomalous Arc Magmatism in the Wrangell Volcanic...
In the Wrangell Volcanic Belt (WVB) a northwesterly increase in volume of calc-alkaline versus transitional (sodic alkaline/calc-alkaline) magmatism is accompanied by a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The geology of the Rapid Creek-Big Fish River phosphatic iron formation...
The phosphatic iron formation under investigation shows some interesting characteristics. Aspects that set it apart from other phosphatic iron formations are: 1) coexistence of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Summary Information on the Dublin Gulch Project, Yukon Territory
The Dublin Gulch project is an intrusive-hosted gold deposit near Mayo, Yukon. It resembles the Fort Knox gold deposit near Fairbanks, Alaska. Alteration and mineralization in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geology and till geochemistry of Weasel Lake map area (105G/13),...
Weasel Lake map area (105G/13) is located at the northwestern end of the Finlayson Lake belt (displaced Yukon-Tanana Terrane) and extends northward into ancient North American...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The McMillan Deposit - a stratabound lead-zinc-silver deposit in sedimentary...
The McMillan deposit is in the southern portion of the Logan Mountains, 65 km NE of Watson Lake. It is also referred to as the Quartz Lake deposit. Rocks hosting the deposit...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Clinton Creek asbestos deposit, Yukon Territory
Clinton Creek asbestos deposit is situated at 77 km northwest of Dawson City on Clinton Creek in Yukon. Yukon Metamorphic Complex of Ordovician to Devonian age covers most of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML