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'Alpine-type' ultramafic rocks of the Kluane metamorphic assemblage,...
Mica-quartz schist and olivine serpentinites form the Kluane metamorphic assemblage, a 150-km-long belt that is wedged between the Yukon-Tanana Terrane and the Insular...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemical and metallogenic investigations of Cretaceous intrusions in...
The geochronology and geochemistry of Cretaceous intrusions and associated mineralization in southeastern Yukon and southwestern NWT is the focus of a new research project. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A note on preliminary bedrock mapping in the Fire Lake area
New geological mapping around the Fyre Lake Cu-Co-Au deposit in Yukon-Tanana Terrane, southeastern Yukon, has established the continuity of stratigraphic units from nearby Grass...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Application of Landsat TM thermal imagery to structural interpretations of...
The structure of the Tintina Fault Zone (TFZ) within the Tintina Trench in west-central Yukon is almost completely unknown, due largely to very poor exposure, and thick...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemistry, paleotectonic setting and metallogeny of Late...
Late Triassic to Early Jurassic age (~220-185 Ma) intrusions comprise one of the most widespread and volumetrically significant plutonic suites in central and western Yukon, and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A summary report on the geology of the Brown-McDade gold-silver deposit,...
The Brown-McDade deposit was the first vein system discovered in the Mount Nansen camp and has produced approximately 34,000 ounces (1058 kg) of gold and 131,000 ounces (4,075...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age and setting of dinosaur trackways, Ross River area, Yukon Territory (105F/15)
Chert-bearing clastic strata are a common component of Jurassic and younger terrestrial sequences in the Yukon. The discovery of dinosaur trackways in a small inlier of chert-...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Alteration and zonation in the Kalzas W-Sn-Mo Porphyry-vein deposit, 105 M/7, Yukon
The Kalzas W-Sn-Mo deposit is located in central Yukon, 282 km north of Whitehorse on the northern side of Big Kalzas Lake. Wolframite-molybdenite-cassiterite mineralization...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sedimentology of White Channel Placer Deposits, Klondike, West Central Yukon
The White Channel placer deposit in the Klondike area is a Pliocene to early Pleistocene braid plain sequence with tributary alluvial fan and gravity flow deposits. Lithofacies...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ag-Pb-Zn Mineralization in the MM Deposit and associated Mississippian...
A sequence of Mississippian felsic volcanic rocks up to 600 m thick occurs in the St. Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains. The volcanic rocks occur in a belt 80 km long and up to...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A Pliensbachian submarine slope and conglomeratic gully-fill succession:...
The diachronous Richthofen-Conglomerate Formation transition separates lithostratigraphic subunits of the Jurassic Laberge Group, Whitehorse Trough. The contact is superbly...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Assisted revegetation of fine-grained tailings at Whitehorse Copper Mine: A...
Whitehorse Copper Mine, within the city limits of Whitehorse, produced about 10 million tons of fine-grained calc-silicate tailings before its closure in 1982. The tailings, now...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Auriferous conglomerates at McKinnon Creek, west-central Yukon (115O/11):...
Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks at McKinnon Creek, Indian River area, consist of interbedded sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone and coal, in order of decreasing abundance. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary geological map of part of the 'Tuchitua River North' area...
Preliminary geological map includes mineral occurrences and isotopic age dates.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological map of Wolverine Lake area, Pelly Mountains (NTS 105G/8),...
Geological map including geological cross sections and mineral occurrences.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological map of Mount Mye (105K/6 E), central Yukon (1:25000 scale)
Includes geological cross sections, mineral occurrences, isotopic age dates, fossil samples and geochemical samples.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Map of Mount Mye (105K/6 NW), central Yukon (1:25000 scale)
Includes a geological cross section, mineral occurrences, isotopic age dates, fossil samples and geochemical samples.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Map of Mt. Haldane area, Yukon (105M/13)
Geological map (1:50,000 scale) of Mount Haldane area, central Yukon including geological cross sections, structural relationships and mineral occurrences.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Whitehorse Copper Belt: A Simplified Technical History
The Whitehorse Copper Belt is a northwest-trending chain of copper-bearing skarn deposits, located four kilometres west of the city of Whitehorse (NTS 105 D). The belt extends...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Digital Geology
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) spatial database of bedrock geology, surficial geology, mineral deposits, paleontology and geochronology for the Yukon Territory. It also...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML