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Mt. Hundere deposit, southeastern Yukon
In 1990, Curragh Resources announced its intention to spend $70 million to develop a high-grade zinc-lead-silver mine at Mt. Hundere, 54 km north of Watson Lake. The deposit...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Munson property, south Yukon
The Munson occurrence consists of massive black sphalerite, galena chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and magnetite exposed in bulldozer trenches on the floor of a cirque. The sulphides...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary report on early Tertiary clastics, west-central Yukon
Examination of Early Tertiary clastic rocks in the Indian and Sixty Mile River areas has revealed that: 1) sediments are arranged in fining-upward sequences and are dominated...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sluicing in the Yukon Territory - 1984
In the Yukon, the relatively low initial cost, high concentrating ratio, durability, high throughput, ease of use and acceptable recovery rates are reasons the sluice, in its...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer gold and associated heavy minerals of the Clear Creek drainage,...
Placer gold mining in Clear Creek extends back to 1900, when the discovery claim was staked. Approximately 129,000 crude ounces (4012 kg) of gold have been reported since 1941...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrology & geology of high level rhyolite intrusives of the Skukum area,...
The Skukum area is located 58 km south-southwest of Whitehorse. It is an elliptical area of volcanic rocks, Tertiary in age, and surrounded by hypabyssal rhyolite intrusives....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrographic and geochemical evidence for a hydrothermal origin of the Rusty...
The Rusty Springs prospect is a carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposit in the northern Ogilvie Mountains. It is hosted in medium to coarsely crystalline grey dolostone and dolostone...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Mineral Deposit Profiles
The deposit models project is an attempt to classify the many known metallic mineral deposits and occurrences in Yukon into specific mineral deposit models. This work began...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age of the gold-bearing White Channel Gravel, Klondike district, Yukon
Four new glass-fission-track age determinations on three distal tephra beds, together with published magnetostratigraphic and 40Ar/39Ar age data, securely place a Late Pliocene...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Character and metallogeny of Permian, Jurassic and Cretaceous plutons in the...
Between the Swift and Nisutlin rivers, unmetamorphosed granite to ultramafic intrusions of four ages (from Permian through Cretaceous) span the amalgamation of Cassiar Platform...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Glaciation, gravel and gold in the Fifty Mile Creek area, west-central Yukon
Previously unrecognized glacial erosional landforms (i.e. cirques, u-shaped troughs, truncated spurs and arêtes, in order of increasing doubt), and glacial depositional...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Glass-fission-track ages of Late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in the Klondike...
A distinctive and widespread tephra bed is a very useful stratigraphic tool, especially if its age is accurately and precisely known. However, distal tephra beds, like those in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Goddell property, south Yukon
Quartz-stibnite veins at Goddell Gully represent only a few of the several antimony occurrences on Carbon Hill. Strong east-trending structures contain the showings over at...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Gold and Silver, Lead Deposits of the Ketza River District, Yukon:...
The Ketza River gold deposits, in central Yukon, are gold-bearing, massive sulphide mantos and chimneys in Lower Cambrian limestone. Mining is presently confined to oxidized...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Gold and sulphide mineralization in the Hunker Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada
The Hunker Creek area is located 30 km southeast of Dawson City, Yukon. Gold and sulphide-bearing quartz veins (MINFILE 115O 067, 068) crosscut metamorphic rocks of the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Gold in skarns of the Whitehorse Copper Belt southern Yukon
Skarns in the Whitehorse Copper Belt occur in both dolomitic and calcareous carbonate rocks near contacts with the diorite contact phase of the Whitehorse Batholith. The skarns...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Gold-sulphide enrichment processes in mesothermal veins of the Sixtymile...
The upper Sixtymile River area is located approximately 128 km west of Dawson City, Yukon. Lithology in this area consists of Precambrian to Paleozoic metamorphic rocks,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Gold-sulphide quartz veins in metamorphic rocks as a possible source for...
The Livingstone Creek area is located 100 km northeast of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. Hydrothermal gold-sulphide mineralization (MINFILE 105E 001) occurs in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Grew Creek epithermal gold-silver deposit, Tintina Trench, Yukon, 105 K/2
The Grew Creek epithermal gold-silver deposit in southeast Yukon (MINFILE 105 K 009) is hosted by Eocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks deposited in a pull-apart basin within...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ground penetrating radar investigation of the upper Yukon River valley...
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiles were collected along mid-channel and side-channel bars from the confluence of the Yukon and White rivers in the Yukon, to Eagle, Alaska,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML