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Late Devonian conodont biostratigraphy of the earn group with age...
A copy of this thesis is available at the EMR library – QE195 I7 1990. This thesis is available online at https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0052650Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Wisconsinan McConnell glaciation of the Whitehorse map area (105D), Yukon.
Ice accumulations in the Coast Mountains of southwestern Yukon and the Cassiar Mountains of south-central Yukon during the late Wisconsinan were responsible for glaciation of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Late Wisconsinan McConnell ice-flow and sediment distribution patterns in...
Late Wisconsinan McConnell glaciation (ca. 24-11 ka) occurred in four phases in the Pelly Mountains of southern Yukon. Phase 1 marked the onset of ice accumulation in cirques...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrology and geochemistry of the Pattison Alaskite Pluton, Yukon
The Pattison Pluton is a high level Tertiary subaluminous alaskite that is part of a northwest trending chain of igneous intrusions in the Yukon Crystalline Terrane,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrology and geochemistry of tin and tungsten mineralized plutons,...
Mid-Cretaceous plutons in the McQuesten River region intrude Upper Proterozoic to Mississippian miogeoclinal metasedimentary rocks of Selwyn Basin. They form a belt trending...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrology & geology of high level rhyolite intrusives of the Skukum area,...
The Skukum area is located 58 km south-southwest of Whitehorse. It is an elliptical area of volcanic rocks, Tertiary in age, and surrounded by hypabyssal rhyolite intrusives....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrotectonic study of the Teslin suture zone, Yukon: A progress report
The Teslin suture zone (TSZ) forms the fundamental boundary between rocks deposited along the ancient margin of North America and allochthonous terranes to the west. Both North...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Phosphorites, ironstones, and secondary phosphates in Mid-Cretaceous flysch...
The Blow River Formation was deposited in the Blow Trough, a north-trending, middle Cretaceous downwarp near the junction of the Western Canada Seaway and the Brooks and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposit grain size and water quality sampling program
A program of placer deposit sediment and water sampling was initiated by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (DIAND) in the summer of 1998 to investigate possible relationships...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer depositional settings and their ages along Dominion Creek, Klondike...
Dominion Creek and its tributaries (Sulphur and Gold Run creeks) are one of the largest placer gold producing areas in North America. The placer gravel is divided into: (1)...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits of Clear Creek drainage basin 115 P, central Yukon
Placer gold in the Clear Creek drainage basin is found in a variety of gravel deposits, each of which is associated with a specific geological setting. The schematic profile of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits of the Yukon: overview and potential for new discoveries
Historic placer mining areas in Yukon can be grouped into ten areas: Klondike; Sixtymile; Fortymile; Clear Creek; Moosehorn Range; Stewart River; Clear Creek; Mayo; Dawson...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer deposits: Their formation, evaluation, and exploitation, Yukon
The formation of placer deposits has several prerequisites. They include a source for the gold, a mechanism to concentrate it, and time for the concentrating mechanism to work....Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer geology of Black Hills Creek (Parts of 115 O/7 and 10)
Mapping in the Black Hills Creek drainage has identified auriferous gravel resources in valley bottom and terrace deposits of the main stream. Both low-level and high-level...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer gold and associated heavy minerals of the Clear Creek drainage,...
Placer gold mining in Clear Creek extends back to 1900, when the discovery claim was staked. Approximately 129,000 crude ounces (4012 kg) of gold have been reported since 1941...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Placer gravels of Miller Creek, Sixtymile River area, 116 B,C
Within the Sixtymile River drainage basin, Quaternary placer deposits include tributary valley bottom gulch gravel, a broad main valley alluvial plain, and high level terrace...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
On the geology of the Tertiary Wrangell lavas in the St. Clare province, St....
The Wrangell lavas in the St. Clare province of southwestern Yukon are part of the larger Wrangell volcanic belt that has been active throughout the Late Cenozoic. These lavas...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ore mineralogy and formation conditions of vein and replacement-type...
The Logan (MINFILE 105B 099) and YP (MINFILE 105B 001) zinc-lead-silver deposits are located in the Rancheria District, Yukon Territory. These deposits and numerous other...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Origin of gold in the White Channel sediments of the Klondike region, Yukon Territory
Results of a study to determine the origin of alteration in the Plio-Pleistocene White Channel sediments and bedrock using field observations, mineralogical and geochemical...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Origin of the Clinton Creek Asbestos Deposit
Asbestos in most Cordilleran deposits has been considered a product of fracturing, metasomatism and thermal metamorphism of ultramafic rocks by mesozoic intrusions. Such a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML