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The Wolf Discovery: A Kuroko-style volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit...
The Wolf property is situated approximately 90 km south of Ross River, Yukon, within the St. Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains. The Pelly Mountains are bounded to the northeast...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ray Gulch tungsten skarn, Dublin Gulch, central Yukon: Gold-tungsten...
The Ray Gulch tungsten skarn and the Eagle Zone intrusion-related gold deposit are associated with the Dublin Gulch intrusion, which forms part of the mid-Cretaceous Tombstone...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Composition of placer and lode gold as an exploration tool in the Stewart...
A reconnaissance study of the composition of gold from several placer streams in the Stewart River map area was carried out to characterize the likely style(s) of lode...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Resedimentation of the late Holocene White River tephra, Yukon Territory and Alaska
The Wrangell region of eastern Alaska represents a zone of extensive volcanism marked by intermittent pyroclastic activity during the late Holocene. The most recent and widely...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary results of 1:50 000-scale geologic mapping in Wolverine Creek...
The oldest rocks in Wolverine Creek map area belong to a Devono-Mississippian metamorphic assemblage consisting of heterogeneous quartzite and orthogneiss. The quartzite unit...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Nature and origin of copper-gold mineralization at the Minto and Williams...
A new research project was begun in 2002, aimed at better understanding the nature and origin of copper-gold mineralization and its main host rocks at the Minto and Williams...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Plants, bugs, and a giant mammoth tusk: Paleoecology of Last Chance Creek,...
An exceptional, complete tusk of a mature male woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was recovered from a placer mining exposure on Last Chance Creek, Yukon Territory in July,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of the southern Semenof Hills, central Yukon (105E/1,7,8)
The volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Semenof block of central Yukon have not been closely studied in the past. Recent bedrock mapping in the southern Semenof Hills highlights...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Dezadeash Range and adjacent northern Coast Mountains (115A),...
Granodiorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex intruded metasedimentary rocks in the Dezadeash Range of the northern Coast Belt in the late Mesozoic. Graphitic staurolite-biotite...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology, mineralization and sampling results from the Kalzas tungsten...
Kalzas, in central Yukon, is a porphyry-style stockwork and sheeted-vein wolframite deposit. Alteration includes a potassic core, a quartz-tourmaline-sericite zone and an outer...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological map of Livingstone Creek area (NTS 105E/8), Yukon (1:50 000 scale)
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Paleomagnetism and geobarometry of the Granite Mountain batholith, Yukon:...
Paleomagnetic and geobarometric results are reported here for the Early Jurassic Granite Mountain batholith, an ~600 km² granodiorite intrusion in the Yukon-Tanana Terrane....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Stratigraphy of the Mackenzie Mountains supergroup in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon.
Mackenzie Mountains supergroup (MMSG) strata in the Wernecke Mountains are described in detail. Three new formations are assigned to the revised and formalized Hematite Creek...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Biophysical map of Watson Lake area (NTS 105A/2), Yukon (1:50 000 scale)
This map was produced as part of a biophysical mapping pilot study carried out in the Watson Lake (NTS 105A/2) area in 2004. Biophysical mapping (also known as ecological land...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Hydrothermal alteration, mineralization and exploration potential of the...
The Mars property occurs on the southwestern margin of the Teslin Crossing pluton, a composite intrusion of intermediate, alkalic composition that was emplaced into sedimentary...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Volcano-sedimentary megaclast in Wernecke breccia, Yukon, and its bearing on...
A group of hydrothermal breccias, collectively known as Wernecke breccia, formed at approximately 1.60 Ga in Yukon. The breccias consist of a hydrothermally precipitated matrix...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Targeted Geoscience Initiative, Part 2: Glacial history, till...
A regional till geochemistry project was completed in conjunction with bedrock mapping across rocks of Yukon-Tanana Terrane and North American affinity in central Yukon. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The co-variation of lithology and geometry in Triassic reefal limestones at...
Lime Peak is an Upper Triassic carbonate complex approximately 40 km northeast of Whitehorse. It is one of many carbonate buildups in the Whitehorse Trough which occur as...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
White Channel Gravel alteration revisited
The White Channel Gravel (Pliocene) is the most important gold-bearing unit in the world famous Klondike goldfields of west-central Yukon. It is up to 46 m thick and consists...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology at the contact between Yukon-Tanana and Cassiar terranes, southeast...
Paleozoic platformal and basinal strata of Cassiar Terrane are separated from rocks of Yukon-Tanana Terrane to the west by an unexposed fault in southeast Glenlyon map area....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML