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Rare earth elements in the Guano-Guayes skarn property Pelly Mountains,...
The Guano-Guayes property, in the St Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains, covers a skarn about 300 m wide, 70 m thick and 1100 m long. Contact metasomatism of Silurian to Devonian...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Revised stratigraphy and new exploration targets in the Hart River region...
The Hart River area (maps 116 A/10 and 11) of the southeastern Ogilvie Mountains is underlain by two varied and widespread successions which offer the most potential for...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sedimentology of a high level terrace placer gold deposit, Klondike Valley, Yukon
Significant economic concentrations of placer gold were first recognized in an intermediate level terrace near Dawson City in the late 1980's Regional surficial mapping has...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Clastic sediment production and diagenesis in selected western North...
This dissertation presents investigations into the patterns of clastic sedimentation and diagenesis of coarse clastic sediments at ten caves and rock shelters at sites in the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Post-glacial vegetation history of the Aishihik Basin and its vicinity,...
Nine pollen profiles were obtained along a broad latitudinal transect extending from the Upper Nisling Valley to the Ittlemit Lake and Bear Lakes areas in the southwest Yukon...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Post-mining hydrogeochemical conditions, Brewery Creek gold deposit, central Yukon
A reconnaissance-level study of post-mining hydrogeochemical conditions was carried out at the Brewery Creek gold deposit within the Tintina Gold Province. The deposit is...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Selected excerpts from placer gold recovery research
The highest percentage gold recoveries occurred at mines which screened their feed to minus one inch, used both expanded metal and angle iron riffles on top of nomad matting for...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Silver-bearing veins and replacement deposits of the Rancheria District
Numerous silver-rich, galena- and sphalerite-bearing veins and stratabound lenses are located on both sides of the Yukon-British Columbia border in the Rancheria District. Some...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New paleontological investigations of upper Triassic shallow-water reef...
The thickest and best-developed Upper Triassic reef complex in the entire North American Cordillera is at Lime Peak in the southern Yukon. The Lime Peak reef complex is a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleomagnetic Study of the mid-Cretaceous Mount McIntyre pluton, Whitehorse...
The paleomagnetic signature of the mid-Cretaceous Mount McIntyre Pluton, west of Whitehorse, was evaluated to develop a better understanding of the motion history of Cordilleran...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits of the Yukon: overview and potential for new discoveries
Historic placer mining areas in Yukon can be grouped into ten areas: Klondike; Sixtymile; Fortymile; Clear Creek; Moosehorn Range; Stewart River; Clear Creek; Mayo; Dawson...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Wisconsinan McConnell ice-flow and sediment distribution patterns in...
Late Wisconsinan McConnell glaciation (ca. 24-11 ka) occurred in four phases in the Pelly Mountains of southern Yukon. Phase 1 marked the onset of ice accumulation in cirques...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
High Level Terraces Along Parts of Yukon River and Sixtymile River (115 N/9...
High level terraces representing former valley bottom deposits exist along Yukon River and several of its tributaries. The terraces contain fluvial gravel deposits wich are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Plata-Inca gold-silver veins, Yukon
Latest (?) Proterozoic to Earliest Cambrian and Devonian to (?) Mississippian strata, and a Cretaceous or Early Tertiary porphyry dyke underlie the Plata-Inca property. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of the Wolverine polymetallic volcanic-hosted massive sulphide...
The Wolverine polymetallic volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposit occurs in a highly deformed but coherent stratigraphic succession of early Mississippian to early Permian...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 -
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-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 quartz-...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Goulter Property, central Yukon
This property, which adjoins the Mt. Nansen property on the north side, is bisected by Discovery Creek, a significant placer gold producer. Two parallel zones of anastomosing...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
McMillan property, southeastern Yukon
The McMillan deposit contains 1.1 million tonnes grading 8.3% Zn, 4.1% Pb and 62 g/t Ag in a manto-like replacement deposit in the Proterozoic/Lower Cambrian Hyland Group at the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML