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Geochronology
Geochronology is a discipline of geoscience which measures the age of earth materials and provides the temporal framework in which other geoscience data can be interpreted in...Date updated: 2025-07-11Date created: 2018-09-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Lithogeochemistry
This product contains whole rock chemical analyses from Yukon samples.Date updated: 2025-07-11Date created: 2020-08-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Triassic to Jurassic Magmatic and Tectonic Evolution of the...
End-on arc collision and onset of the northern Cordilleran orogen is recorded in Late Triassic to Jurassic plutons in the Intermontane terranes of Yukon, and in development of...Date updated: 2025-06-16Date created: 2022-02-23Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Revisiting the “Klondike Orogeny”: Permian to Jurassic development of the...
The Permian evolution of the Yukon‐Tanana terrane and closure of the Slide Mountain Ocean in the northern Cordillera have been inferred to culminate in the collisional “Klondike...Date updated: 2025-06-16Date created: 2025-06-16Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bedrock geology map of the Coffee Project, Dawson Range, Yukon (parts of NTS...
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Geology and bedrock mapping updates at the Coffee Project gold deposit:...
The Coffee Project comprises numerous gold occurrences, including the structurally-controlled gold-only Coffee deposit, which is hosted in poly-deformed Paleozoic basement rocks...Date updated: 2025-06-05Date created: 2025-06-05Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
New geochronological and geochemical data for Permian rocks of the western...
New U-Pb zircon dates from Permian rocks of the Yukon-Tanana terrane in the Klondike district of western Yukon provide new constraints on timing of intrusions and deposition....Date updated: 2025-06-03Date created: 2025-06-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Cambrian and Ordovician Alkalic Magmatism Along the Dawson Fault,...
Lower Paleozoic continental margin rocks of the North American Cordillera, from Yukon to Nevada, include coeval platformal carbonate and basinal clastic strata that are offset...Date updated: 2025-05-16Date created: 2025-05-16Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bedrock geology map of the McQuesten Lake area, central Yukon (parts of NTS...
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Yukon Placer Mining Industry 2021 to 2023
The Yukon Placer Mining Industry report reflects the strong relationship between the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS) and the Yukon placer mining industry. Our annual tours into...Date updated: 2025-05-09Date created: 2025-05-09Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary observations from four reduced intrusion-related gold deposits,...
Host rocks, veins and alteration in reduced intrusion-related gold (RIRG) deposits display similar features and distribution across the Tombstone gold belt (TGB). The primary...Date updated: 2025-04-22Date created: 2025-04-17Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geochemistry and geochronology of Cambrian and Upper Ordovician mafic...
Neoproterozoic to lower Paleozoic basin and platform strata that formed during and after rifting along the western Laurentian margin are preserved in the northern Cordillera....Date updated: 2025-04-17Date created: 2025-01-28Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Cenozoic faulting in the Upper Hyland River Valley, Southeastern Yukon: A...
The Logan fault is one of many dextral faults that strike generally parallel to the northwest trend of the Northern Canadian Cordillera. Though widely documented, the timing and...Date updated: 2025-04-03Date created: 2025-04-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology, Petrology and Geochronology of the Late Cretaceous Klaza Epithermal...
Geologic understanding of the richly mineralized Dawson Range gold belt (DRGB) in the central Yukon, Canada is hindered by: (1) limited outcrop exposure due to thick soil cover;...Date updated: 2025-04-03Date created: 2025-04-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Crustal stress near the Yakutat microplate collision from probabilistic...
Earthquake source characteristics provide a valuable constraint on crustal stress and regional plate tectonics. Earthquake source studies in Yukon and northern British Columbia...Date updated: 2025-04-03Date created: 2025-04-03Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Surficial Geology of the Central Kluane Ranges (parts of NTS 115B/15, 16 and...
Surficial geological mapping in the central Kluane Ranges was undertaken to better understand the distribution and character of surficial materials. Upland surficial materials...Date updated: 2025-04-01Date created: 2025-03-27Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology 2024
The Yukon Exploration and Geology (YEG) volumes include two publications: Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview, and Yukon Exploration and Geology Technical Papers. These key...Date updated: 2025-01-31Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Western Arctic Regional Network of Seismographs (WARNS): History, challenges...
The Western Arctic Regional Network of Seismographs (WARNS) is a collection of 20 seismic stations that addresses critical gaps in the seismic network coverage in northwestern...Date updated: 2025-01-23Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2024
Yukon Exploration and Geology (YEG) papers and the Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview are two of the main publications of the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS; Energy, Mines and...Date updated: 2025-01-23Date created: 2025-01-17Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Valley deposit: A geological introduction and overview
The Valley deposit is located in east-central Yukon, 367 km northeast of Whitehorse. In 2012, Golden Predator Mining Corp. originally sampled gold-mineralized quartz veins in...Date updated: 2025-01-23Date created: 2025-01-18Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML