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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: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-03-27Publisher: 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: 2026-05-14Date 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...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-04-03Publisher: 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...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-04-03Publisher: 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: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-04-17Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
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: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-05-09Publisher: 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: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-05-16Publisher: 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: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-06-03Publisher: 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...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-06-05Publisher: 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...Date updated: 2026-05-14Date created: 2025-06-16Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Upper Devonian stratiform barite-lead-zinc-silver mineralization at Tom...
The Macmillan Pass area is underlain by Hadrynian to Middle Devonian fine grained sedimentary strata and volcanic rocks of Selwyn Basin. Widespread occurrences of Upper...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Little Nahanni Aeromagnetic...
This map of the first vertical derivative of the magnetic field was derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by EON Geosciences Inc. during the...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Summary of Yukon Geological Survey’s 2008-2009 activities
YGS is delivering 16 field-based projects this fiscal year, including three regional mapping projects, two sedimentary basin studies, five geophysical surveys and five student...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Total magnetic field, Eagle Plains Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 116 J (north half), Yukon
This map of the total magnetic field was derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by EON Geosciences Inc. in the period between April 10, 2009 and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Eagle Plains Aeromagnetic...
This map of the first vertical derivative of the magnetic field was derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by EON Geosciences Inc. in the period...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
High-grade hydrothermal copper-gold mineralization in foliated granitoids at...
Speculation regarding the genetic history of the Minto copper-gold deposit in the Carmacks map area (NTS 115I) has existed since its discovery. Minto copper sulphides are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Eagle Plains Aeromagnetic...
This map of the first vertical derivative of the magnetic field was derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by EON Geosciences Inc. in the period...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Deconstructing complex Au-Ag-Cu mineralization, Sonora Gulch project, Dawson...
We present new field and U-Pb analytical data from the Sonora Gulch Project that demonstrate a protracted history of polymetallic mineralization (Au-Ag-Cu-Zn ± Mo) associated...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Yukon placer diamonds: Possible sources
Diamond placer occurrences are historically reported in Yukon and in the adjacent areas of British Columbia and Alaska (Casselman and Harris, 2002) and are generally recovered...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML