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Improvements in the regional earthquake focal mechanism catalogue for...
Earthquake source characteristics provide a valuable constraint on fault behaviour, crustal stress, and regional plate tectonics. In southwestern Yukon, a region of complex...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geomorphic assessment of Tsälnjik Chú (Nordenskiold River) near Carmacks,...
River course migration is controlled by discharge, sediment supply, and bank vegetation, and its study informs watershed responses to environmental stressors like climate...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A preliminary geological interpretation of the Mount Grant–Evelyn Creek...
The Evelyn Creek–Mount Grant area includes a large region of igneous and meta-igneous rocks; here termed the Mount Grant batholith. The batholith comprises mostly deformed...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
The Sunnydale landslide, current understanding and research, Dawson (NTS 116B/3)
The Sunnydale landslide is a slow-moving rock-slope deformation on the western bank of the Yukon River directly across from Dawson, Yukon. While recent data suggest...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Fracture network analysis in the Duke River area, southwestern Yukon
Deep geothermal reservoir potential depends on the local temperature gradient and host rock permeability. In areas with low primary porosity, such as the Duke River area,...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary double-difference relocation earthquake catalogue for...
Southwestern Yukon is a seismically active zone of crustal deformation including multiple large, dextral strike-slip fault systems with overlapping activity. In this study, we...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Mapping the rate of change of select glaciers using satellite and...
Glacier mass loss is accelerating throughout Yukon. This mass loss is confirmed by multiple studies and methods. New remotely-sensed and field-measured terminus retreat rates...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-19Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology 2022
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Yukon placer mining 2022 development and exploration overview
Placer mining in the Yukon remains a strong and innovative industry, and has the potential for a modern record-high reporting this season. The number of active operations is...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-20Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2022
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Yukon Geological Survey 2022 overview
This overview provides a summary of research highlights for 2022. Many of the projects described here are presented in more detail in the Yukon Exploration and Geology...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-20Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Mineral Exploration Program 2022 update
The Yukon Mineral Exploration Program (YMEP) is a Government of Yukon funding program designed to support individual prospectors, partnerships and companies. The funding...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-20Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon hard rock mining, development and exploration overview 2022
Yukon mineral exploration activity in 2022 normalized, somewhat, as the restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic abated. However, headwinds remained for explorers in...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-20Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Magmatic-hydrothermal deposits in central Yukon: Variations on a theme
This field trip guidebook was prepared for the 100th Anniversary Meeting of the Society of Economic Geologists originally planned to be held in Whistler, British Columbia,...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-01-31Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial geology and geohazards of the greater Whitehorse area.
Remote predictive community-scale surficial geology mapping was completed for the greater Whitehorse area, through desktop interpretation of recent high-resolution imagery...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-03-21Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Liquor Corporation retail liquor price lists
These documents are retail liquor price lists for products that can be ordered from the Yukon Liquor Corporation. -
Surficial Geology of Granite Creek (part of NTS 105M/14 and 105M/15)
The Granite Creek map area includes the southwestern section of the Gustavus Range. This area hosts summits approximately 2000 m in elevation. Granite and Albert creeks drain...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-06-30Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Analysis of geoscience data for geothermal exploration along the Teslin...
In collaboration with the Yukon Geological Survey, Teslin Tlingit Council, and other project partners, Innovate Geothermal Ltd. performed an analysis of geoscience data in...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-09-07Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Early Ordovician seamounts preserved in the Canadian Cordillera:...
The breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia and development of the western Laurentian rifted margin are in part recorded by Neoproterozoic to mid-Paleozoic igneous and...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-11-14Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope signature of Carboniferous and older...
The Yukon-Tanana terrane in Yukon, Canada, records Late Devonian (ca. 366–360 Ma) rifting and the onset of latest Devonian–Carboniferous arc and back-arc magmatism (ca. 360–325...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2023-11-14Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML