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Enhanced interpretation of stream sediment geochemical data for NTS 105B
New geochemical data from re-analysis of archived stream sediment samples have been assessed using weighted sums modeling and catchment basin analysis as described in the...Date updated: 2016-05-24Date created: 2016-05-24Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Mineral Property Update
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Sedimentology and regional significance of the ‘argillite unit’, a probable...
for a copy of this paper please contact the Yukon Geological Survey; geology@gov.yk.ca.Date updated: 2016-03-29Date created: 2016-03-29Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The unconventional gas resources of Mississippian-Devonian shales in the...
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An orogenic wedge model for diachronous deformation, metamorphism, and...
This paper is available via open access. You can also contact the Yukon Geological Survey (geology@gov.yk.ca) for a copy of this paper.Date updated: 2016-02-09Date created: 2016-02-09Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Copper-gold ± silver mineralization at the Stu occurrence, central Yukon...
The Stu copper-gold±silver occurrence (Yukon MINFILE 115I 011) is located midway between the Minto and Carmacks Copper deposits in the eastern, Minto suite portion of the...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Stratigraphy and structural geology of the upper Hyland River area (parts of...
The upper Hyland River area of southeast Yukon is mostly underlain by rocks of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Hyland Group. The Yusezyu Formation, which forms the lower part of the...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Holocene fluctuations of the north lobe of Llewellyn Glacier, Upper...
Llewellyn Glacier contributes glacial meltwater to runoff entering the Yukon River, which flows through the hydroelectric power dam in Whitehorse, Yukon. An examination of...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Digitizing and spatially analyzing historic YCGC drill data from Dominion...
Compilation of historic geologic data can help identify deposits of unmined gold-bearing gravel and promote further exploration on under-explored ground. Archival documents of...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Crustal depth of emplacement of the Early Jurassic Aishihik and Tatchun...
Early Jurassic plutons in west-central Yukon were emplaced during accretion of the Intermontane terranes onto the western North American margin, and their exhumation is recorded...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer-lode gold relationships in the Nansen placer district, Yukon
Compositional studies have been undertaken on gold particles recovered from hypogene ore, eluvial material and placer samples in and around the Klaza property. These data have...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Early Pleistocene glaciation and implications for placer gold deposits in...
Yukon has over a century of placer mining history, predominately in unglaciated regions. However, as these targets are exploited, focus turns to more complex landscapes where...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary observations on the geology of Tay Mountain Area (parts of NTS...
Regional mapping north and west of Faro is aimed at improving knowledge of the geologic history of the area and at elucidating the host stratigraphy and structures of both...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A-type granite plutons and tin skarns in southeast Yukon: Mindy prospect and...
In the southeast Yukon, immediately southwest of the mid-Cretaceous Cassiar suite plutons,is a northwest-trending suite of anorogenic one-mica granites called the Seagull suite....Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
U-Pb zircon age and Pb isotopic constraints on the age and origin of...
Six dikes that are closely associated with the Klaza epithermal vein system in the Mt. Nansen district yield early Late Cretaceous U-Pb zircon ages (78.2-76.3 Ma); this age is...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Protopiceoxylon yukonense sp. nov. – A remarkable extinct conifer from the...
A fossil wood remain of par-autochthonous origin was found in Paleocene sedimentary rocks of the Moose Channel Formation in the Big Fish River area in Yukon, close to the...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New U-Pb zircon dates from the Aishihik batholith, southern Yukon
New U-Pb zircon dates (SHRIMP and LA-ICPMS) from granitoid rocks of the Aishihik batholith indicate a range of ca. 190-180 Ma for the Long Lake plutonic suite, as previously...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary results on the Middle Triassic-Middle Jurassic stratigraphy and...
Stratigraphic and structural relationships within Stikinia, and overlap assemblages of the Whitehorse trough, are investigated in the Teslin Mountain area, southern Yukon. The...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Paradise gravel: Evidence for a pre-White Channel Gravel in the Klondike
New stratigraphic interpretations of exposures at Dago, Preido and Paradise hills on lower Hunker Creek suggest a more complex stratigraphic framework for the development of...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleozoic stratigraphy, tectonics and metallogeny of the Pelly Mountains,...
Paleozoic rocks of the Pelly Mountains, central Yukon, preserve greater than 150 m.y. of sedimentation, magmatism and base-metal mineralization. To identify secular trends in...Date updated: 2016-01-25Date created: 2016-01-25Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML