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Whitehorse Copper Mine Reclamation Review, Yukon Territory
Mining activity at the Whitehorse Copper Mine has resulted in a disturbed land area of approximately 800 acres. Within this area there are about 53 acres with active slope...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 -
An Evaluation of the Gold Recovery of Placer Drills Using Radio Tracers (Part II)
In the last five years, eroding gold prices, increasing production costs and the depletion of reserves have resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of drilling to evaluate...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
White Channel Gravel, Klondike Gold Fields, Yukon, Canada
A poster including a 1:100,000-scale map showing the distribution of White Channel gravel within the Klondike Gold Fields, Yukon, Canada, as well as marginal notes including...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Quaternary Geology and Till Geochemistry of the Anvil District (Parts of...
The integration of till geochemistry and glacial geology into Yukon mineral exploration has been largely underused. In the Anvil district, thick glacial deposits have...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
2006 Regional Water Quality, Sediment and Benthic Invertebrate Assessment...
The Macmillan Pass in east-central Yukon (Figure 1) near the border with the Northwest Territories, is a highly mineralized area. The significant presence of metallic minerals...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
An Evaluation of Ground Penetrating Radar as a Tool in Placer Exploration
A test of ground penetrating radar (GPR) was conducted on 10 placer deposits throughout the Yukon in March 1993. At each site, profile surveys were conducted near known depths...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A reconnaissance inventory of permafrost-related landslides in the Pelly...
A reconnaissance inventory of permafrost-related landslides in the Pelly River watershed was conducted in 2006, largely in response to local community concerns regarding the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Are mafic dykes in the Nor and Hart River areas of the Yukon correlative to...
Samples of mafic to intermediate dikes were collected from the Nor and Hart River areas of the Yukon in regions underlain by metasedimentary rocks and breccia that have been...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A field, petrographic and preliminary S isotopic study of the Walt and...
The MacMillan Pass district (map sheet 105O) located in east Yukon contains several sedimenthosted Ba ± Zn ± Pb deposits including the Tom and Jason deposits, as well as a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bedrock geology of Lansing Range map area (105N), east half, Hess Mountains, Yukon
Geological map (1:125,000 scale) of the Lansing Range map area (NTS 105N), east half, Hess Mountains, Yukon, including geological cross sections, mineral occurrences, fossil...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Debris flows along the Slims River valley, Kluane National Park, Yukon Territory
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Developing a new method to identify previously unrecognized geochemical and...
Placer gold is a notable resource in the western Yukon; however, identification of the lode sources feeding these placer deposits has been difficult. Previous studies have used...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, McQuesten Aeromagnetic...
Map of the first vertical derivative of the magnetic field derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Goldak Airborne Surveys from November 19,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, McQuesten Aeromagnetic...
Map of the first vertical derivative of the magnetic field derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Goldak Airborne Surveys from November 19,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Evidence for a late-McConnell readvance of the Cassiar Lobe in Seagull...
Drift prospecting in high relief areas of the Cordillera requires consideration of paleo-ice-flow reversals. This means rethinking the manner and degree to which glacial ice...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Field investigations of the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Tuttle...
The Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Tuttle Formation was an exploration target for oil and gas in the Peel Plateau and Eagle Plain in the 1960s and 1970s. To date, seven...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geophysical and borehole investigations of permafrost conditions associated...
The effects of permafrost degradation in Yukon have serious negative implications for the structural integrity of vertical infrastructure. This is especially pertinent for...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mass movement, seismicity and neotectonics in the northern St. Elias Mountains, Yukon
Canadian Theses Service/Service des thßeses canadiennes, BNC/National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0N4Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Map of Slats Creek Map Area (106D/16), Wernecke Mountains, Yukon
Geological map (1:50,000 scale) of Slats Creek area, Wernecke Mountains, central Yukon (NTS 106D/16) including geological cross sections and mineral occurrences.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML