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On the geology of the Tertiary Wrangell lavas in the St. Clare province, St....
The Wrangell lavas in the St. Clare province of southwestern Yukon are part of the larger Wrangell volcanic belt that has been active throughout the Late Cenozoic. These lavas...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ore mineralogy and formation conditions of vein and replacement-type...
The Logan (MINFILE 105B 099) and YP (MINFILE 105B 001) zinc-lead-silver deposits are located in the Rancheria District, Yukon Territory. These deposits and numerous other...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Origin of the Clinton Creek Asbestos Deposit
Asbestos in most Cordilleran deposits has been considered a product of fracturing, metasomatism and thermal metamorphism of ultramafic rocks by mesozoic intrusions. Such a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleomagnetic study of the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, Yukon:...
Paleomagnetic results are presented for 154 specimens from 16 sites in the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, a small granodioritic intrusion emplaced into Paleozoic gneisses...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 -
Petrology and geochemistry of the Pattison Alaskite Pluton, Yukon
The Pattison Pluton is a high level Tertiary subaluminous alaskite that is part of a northwest trending chain of igneous intrusions in the Yukon Crystalline Terrane,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and U-Pb zircon geochronology of upper Dorsey assemblage near the...
Meta-sandstone, siltstone and phyllite, with marble and intermediate-to-felsic tuffaceous horizons, host the Munson (TBMB) and Mod zinc-lead occurrences, about 7 km southwest of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Phosphorites, ironstones, and secondary phosphates in Mid-Cretaceous flysch...
The Blow River Formation was deposited in the Blow Trough, a north-trending, middle Cretaceous downwarp near the junction of the Western Canada Seaway and the Brooks and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposit grain size and water quality sampling program
A program of placer deposit sediment and water sampling was initiated by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (DIAND) in the summer of 1998 to investigate possible relationships...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits of Clear Creek drainage basin 115 P, central Yukon
Placer gold in the Clear Creek drainage basin is found in a variety of gravel deposits, each of which is associated with a specific geological setting. The schematic profile of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits: Their formation, evaluation, and exploitation, Yukon
The formation of placer deposits has several prerequisites. They include a source for the gold, a mechanism to concentrate it, and time for the concentrating mechanism to work....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer geology of Black Hills Creek (Parts of 115 O/7 and 10)
Mapping in the Black Hills Creek drainage has identified auriferous gravel resources in valley bottom and terrace deposits of the main stream. Both low-level and high-level...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer gravels of Miller Creek, Sixtymile River area, 116 B,C
Within the Sixtymile River drainage basin, Quaternary placer deposits include tributary valley bottom gulch gravel, a broad main valley alluvial plain, and high level terrace...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology north of Mount Mye, Anvil District (105K/6, 105K/7),...
The northeast Anvil area, 15 km north of Mount Mye (NTS 105K/6, 105K/7), is underlain by a conformable Cambrian-Devonian volcanic and sedimentary package with an aggregate...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Silver-lead-zinc deposits of the Keno Hill-Galena Hill area, central Yukon
The Keno Hill-Galena Hill area is underlain by Yukon Group metasedimentary rocks which form the southern flank of the McQuesten anticline in the area. A series of faults,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of Rose Mountain, Anvil District, central Yukon (105 K/5)
A 2000 m thick succession of six metasedimentary and metavolcanic units ranging in age from Ordovician through Permian strikes northwest and dips moderately to the southwest in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geology of the Pool Creek map area (95C/5), southeastern Yukon
Fieldwork in the northwest corner of Pool Creek map area (NTS 95C/5) during the summer of 2000 distinguished North and South areas with distinct stratigraphies and deformation...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary observations on the geology and geochemistry of quartz veins in...
Four main styles of quartz veining are recognized in the Klondike District. These include foliaform and discordant mesothermal quartz veins in schistose metamorphic rocks,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary stratigraphy and distribution of Devono-Mississippian massive...
The Mount Vermilion area is located at the southeast end of the Pelly Mountains volcanic belt, about 90 km southeast of Ross River, and includes the Wolf volcanogenic massive...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Quaternary history of McQuesten map area, central Yukon
Preliminary results from the Stewart River stratigraphy and surficial mapping suggest a minimum of four glaciations and two interglacial periods. Methods of stratigraphy,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML