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The Dawson City landslide (Dawson map area, NTS 116B/3), central Yukon.
A pre-historic pseudo-circular rock-slope failure at the northern edge of Dawson City, Yukon occurs in altered ultramafic rocks. The middle section of the landslide debris...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 -
Placer Mining Materials Handling Field Trials
This is an interim report by Wright Engineers Ltd., concerning the 1987 operation of the Airgold and Beron Placer tailings pumping systems. The operating time achieved on both...Date 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 -
Placer Mining Settling Ponds (Volume 1) - Design Principles
This report reviews methods and criteria for placer mining settling pond design. The mining and processing of placer gold generates wastewaters containing high concentrations of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Map of Southern Mayo Map Area (105M/1,2,3,4 and parts of 105M/5...
Geological map (1:100,000 scale) of southern Mayo area, central Yukon (NTS 105M/1-4 and part of 5 and 6) including geological cross sections, mineral occurrences, fossil...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial Geology Map and Till Geochemistry of Blind Creek (105K/7 SE), Central Yukon
Surficial geological map (1:25,000 scale) and till geochemistry (copper, lead and zinc) of Blind Creek area, central Yukon (NTS 105K/7 southeast).Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geology map and till geochemistry of Blind Creek (105K/7 SW),...
Surficial geological map (1:25,000 scale) and till geochemistry (copper, lead and zinc) of Blind Creek area.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geology map and till geochemistry of Mount Mye (105K/6 E), central...
Surficial geological map and till geochemistry (copper, lead and zinc) of Mount Mye area.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geology map and till geochemistry of Mount Mye (105K/6 W), central...
Surficial geological map and till geochemistry (copper, lead and zinc) of Mount Mye area.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer Mining Settling Ponds (Volume 2) - Demonstration project methodology
This report is the second volume of a study on placer mining settling pond design. The first volume, 'Design Principles', reviewed methods and criteria for settling pond design...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer Mining and Exploration Compilations (115I and 115J/K)
A placer mining and exploration compilation of NTS map sheets 115I and 115J/K, southern Yukon Territory, Canada. This compilation includes the location, history and previous...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 age...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Platinum Occurrences & Potential
Geological map (1:1,000,000 scale) of the Yukon Territory, including platinum potential, platinum occurrences, a list of selected geological units with PGE potential, density of...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 -
Evaluation of the origins of gold hosted by the conglomerates of the Indian...
Conglomerates belonging to the Indian River formation (IRF), south of the Klondike goldfield, have recently become the focus of exploration activity owing to their potential as...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary observations on stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of middle...
The Eagle Plain basin, having proven hydrocarbon potential, is a relatively underexplored intermontane basin located in northern Yukon . Previous studies of the middle Albian-...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic correlations in the western Ogilvie...
Continued investigations of sedimentary units in the Tatonduk and Coal Creek inliers of the western Ogilvie Mountains have resulted in a refinement of the regional...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New data on the geology and mineralization of the Skukum Creek gold-silver...
Detailed exploration conducted during 2006 in the western part of the Skukum Creek deposit has revealed new structural, mineralogical and geochemical features. The deposit...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Morphological and compositional analysis of placer gold in the South Nahanni...
Placer gold has been reported in small amounts throughout the South Nahanni river drainage; however, the original source of the gold is uncertain. This study focuses on two...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML