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Geology and Geochemistry of the Teslin Crossing Pluton: A gold-rich alkalic...
The Teslin Crossing Pluton is a small (~75 km2), elliptical body which intrudes Jurassic Whitehorse Trough strata of Stikine Terrane. The pluton consists of a border phase, a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Characterization of the basal hydraulic system of a surge-type glacier;...
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Preliminary investigations of emerald mineralization in the Regal Ridge...
Emerald has recently been discovered in two areas in the northern Cordillera, the Lened area immediately east of the Yukon/NWT border and the Regal Ridge property in the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological overview of Clear Creek map area (NTS 115P/14), western Selwyn Basin
Clear Creek map area of central Yukon is underlain by deformed and metamorphosed Proterozoic and Paleozoic rocks of western Selwyn Basin (Hyland Group, unnamed carbonate unit,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Drift prospecting for gold in the Tintina Trench
Two tills and related deposits are the products of at least two ice advances over the Tintina Trench near Ross River, Yukon Territory. These ice advances are termed the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology, geochemistry, and lead isotopic analysis of mineralization of the...
The Strike property is located in the Campbell Range belt in southeastern Yukon. The study area is underlain by a wide variety of mafic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, as...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The mineralogy and geochemistry of polymetallic mineral deposits at the...
The Ketza River polymetallic mineral deposits are situated in the Pelly Mountains, Central Yukon Territory. The deposits were mined for gold from 1988 to 1990, producing 400...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and metallogenic signature of gold occurrences at Scheelite Dome,...
The study area is centred on the 91.2 ± 0.9 Ma Scheelite Dome quartz-monzonite stock of the Tombstone Plutonic Suite (TPS). This stock and associated dykes and sills intrude...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ultramafic nickel-bearing magmas of the Nadaleen River map area (106C/3) and...
Pentlandite-bearing serpentinized ultramafic flows with a komatiitic composition have been identified within volcano-sedimentary stratigraphy in the Nadaleen Range. Associated...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Cyanide - The Facts
Cyanide is probably one of the most universally recognized poisons. Cyanide contains a carbon atom connected to a nitrogen atom, hence the chemical formula CN. However, the term...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Exploration geology of the Mt. Skukum epithermal gold deposit, southwestern Yukon
Veins in Main Cirque are hosted in major normal fault zones bounding down-dropped blocks to depletion of a magma chamber below the adjacent eruptive centre. Residual heat within...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Examination of Natural Attenuation of Metals in Aqueous Solution by Soils in...
In May 2003, the proposal for this project was submitted to the Mining Environment Research Group (MERG). At that time Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd. (NPG) was in charge of water...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology, alteration, and mineralization of the Sato porphyry copper...
The Sato prospect is located between Aishihik Lake and Long Lake in southwestern Yukon Territory. Low grade porphyry-style copper mineralization was discovered on the property...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological setting of gold-silver veins on Montana Mountain
The Montana Mountain area lies at the western edge of the Intermontane Belt, where the Whitehorse Trough overlies the Atlin Terrane. Paleozoic volcanic rocks of Atlin Terrane...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geologic setting and stratigraphic framework of placer deposits, Mayo area, Yukon
Placer deposits occur in unusual geological settings in the Mayo Mining District, where gold is mined from Reid-age glacial till and glaciofluvial gravel and from more recent...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology, mineralization, and K-Ar and Rb-Sr isotopic study of the RAM...
The RAM zinc-lead-silver property in southwest Yukon Territory (105 D/4) is on the contact between metamorphic rocks of the Yukon Crystalline Terrane and foliated granitic rocks...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and geochemistry of the Clear Creek gold occurrences, Tombstone gold...
Auriferous sheeted quartz veins and silicified shear zones occur along the margins and within adjacent hornfels zones of mid-Cretaceous Tombstone intrusions near the head of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Blende property, central Yukon
The Blende is a large epigenetic zinc-lead-silver deposit hosted by brecciated middle Proterozoic dolomite. Mineralization occurs intermittently along a zone about 6 km long and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
An alpine peridotite in the Dawson Range, Yukon-Tanana Terrane: Preliminary...
This report summarizes the results of geological mapping and preliminary petrological studies of an exposure of ultramafic rocks, the Buffalo Pitts Peridotite (BPP), in the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
An evaluation of coal-bearing strata at Division Mountain (115 H/8...
The Division Mountain area is underlain primarily by Jurassic to Cretaceous(?) sedimentary rocks of the Laberge Group and Tantalus Formation. The Laberge Group is divisible into...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML