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Structure and stratigraphy of the Marg volcanogenic massive sulphide...
The Marg (Cu-Zn-Pb-Au-Ag) volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit is hosted within metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Devonian-Mississippian Earn Group and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Summary Information on the Dublin Gulch Project, Yukon Territory
The Dublin Gulch project is an intrusive-hosted gold deposit near Mayo, Yukon. It resembles the Fort Knox gold deposit near Fairbanks, Alaska. Alteration and mineralization in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Tectonic significance of plutonism in the Thirtymile Range, southern Yukon
Two distinct but undeformed suites of granitic plutons intrude deformed siliciclastic rocks in western Dorsey Terrane. A calc-alkaline hornblende-bearing gabbro to granodiorite...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Textural characteristics of the Venus vein and implications for ore shoot...
Underground observations indicate Venus formed from hydrothermal solutions by both open space filling and replacement processes. Quartz deposition was ubiquitous throughout the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Stratigraphy and regional implications of unstrained Devono-Mississippian...
Relatively unstrained Devonian-Mississippian volcanic and volcano-sedimentary rocks have been documented in the Money Creek thrust sheet in Finlayson Lake map area. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Structural evolution of the Ketza River gold deposit
Two phases of ductile deformation, followed by thrusting and extension, affected the Ketza River Mine area. D1 produced large scale E-W trending folds (F1) with upright axial...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geology and till geochemistry of Weasel Lake map area (105G/13),...
Weasel Lake map area (105G/13) is located at the northwestern end of the Finlayson Lake belt (displaced Yukon-Tanana Terrane) and extends northward into ancient North American...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Taiga property: A stratiform Ni-Zn-PGE target in north-central Yukon
The Taiga property consists of 1043 claims located 95 km northeast of Dawson and 6 km east of the Dempster Highway. Ordovician to Silurian Road River Group dolomite and black...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The exotic nature of the Last Peak eclogite in the Teslin zone,...
The history of an eclogite sample and a mica schist sample from the western Teslin zone are discussed in view of garnet zoning profiles. The preliminary metamorphic results...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Fer property: A plutonic-related gold property in southeastern Yukon
The Fer gold property lies only 5 kilometres southwest of the Nahanni Range Road (Highway 10) in southeastern Yukon. It is underlain by a broadly folded sequence of coarse...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Fyre Lake project 1997: Geology and mineralization of the Kona massive...
Columbia Gold Mines Fyre Lake project is located immediately to the east of Fire Lake, approximately 160 km north of Watson Lake in the Yukon Territory. The 1997 program,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Reconnaissance geology of northern Toobally Lake (95D/8), southeast Yukon
The Toobally fault is a north-trending structure occurring along the west shore of northern Toobally Lake (95D/8) that juxtaposes Neoproterozoic-Cambrian sedimentary and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The magmatic and structural setting of the Brewery Creek gold mine, central Yukon
The Brewery Creek gold mine (13.3 Mt @ 1.44 g/t Au) is a bulk tonnage, heap leach operation located 57 km east of Dawson City, Yukon. The deposit lies on the northeastern side...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Pattison Creek pluton - a mineralized Casino Intrusion made bigger with...
Results from an airborne gamma ray and magnetics survey in the Dawson Range in west-central Yukon indicate that the Pattison Creek pluton may be larger than currently mapped....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Quaternary history and till geochemistry of the Anvil District,...
Till geochemistry and glacial geology have rarely been integrated into Yukon mineral exploration. In the Anvil District, thick glacial deposits have consistently hampered...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Thermal Maturation and Hydrocarbon Source Rock Potential of Tantalus...
Tantalus Formation strata at the Whitehorse coal deposit host eight coal zones of moderate to high ash, high rank coal, that range in thickenss from 0.15 to 12.8 m. Vitrinite...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The sedimentology of Pleistocene deposits associated with placer gold...
Due to the depletion of traditional economic gold placer deposits in unglaciated areas of the Yukon, the study of the relationship of placer gravels to overlying glacial...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Stewart River placer project, west-central Yukon
The Stewart River map area (115 O&N) is the most important historic and current placer gold producing region in the Yukon. Unfortunately, the historic placer-gold deposits...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Tectonic Setting of the Aishihik Batholith, SW Yukon
The Aishihik Batholith is comprised of foliated and lineated, equigranular hornblende granodiorite and crystallized at about 216 Ma. The batholith is in contact to the west with...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon-Tanana Terrane in southwestern Frances Lake area (105H/3, 4 and 5),...
Yukon-Tanana Terrane (YTT) in Frances Lake area consists of three domains: the Money/Jules Creek thrust sheet, the foot wall of the Jules Creek thrust, and a northeastern domain...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML