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So you want to go mining in the Yukon, eh?
Many people who want to get started placer mining in the Yukon have questions about many things including cost, types of equipment, government regulations, and of course, "Where...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Munson property, south Yukon
The Munson occurrence consists of massive black sphalerite, galena chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and magnetite exposed in bulldozer trenches on the floor of a cirque. The sulphides...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary investigation of the bedrock geology of the Livingstone Creek...
The Livingstone Creek area is underlain by metasedimentary and metaigneous rocks of Yukon-Tanana Terrane. It is intruded by at least five distinct suites of intrusive rocks of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Petrographic and geochemical evidence for a hydrothermal origin of the Rusty...
The Rusty Springs prospect is a carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposit in the northern Ogilvie Mountains. It is hosted in medium to coarsely crystalline grey dolostone and dolostone...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 -
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 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 -
Preliminary geology of the southeastern part of Ddhaw Ghro Special Management Area
Ddhaw Ghro Special Management Area (SMA) is currently withdrawn from mineral claim disposition. A mineral resource assessment of Ddhaw Ghro SMA will be carried out during the...Date 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 -
Preliminary report on early Tertiary clastics, west-central Yukon
Examination of Early Tertiary clastic rocks in the Indian and Sixty Mile River areas has revealed that: 1) sediments are arranged in fining-upward sequences and are dominated by...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary results from water sampling in the Pelly-Cassiar Platform...
Water and sediment samples were collected from 13 creeks/springs which drain the Devono-Mississippian Pelly Mountains volcanic belt that hosts the Wolf and MM volcanogenic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary structural and kinematic analysis of mylonitic rocks of the...
The Teslin suture zone (TSZ) is a Late Triassic to mid-Jurassic subduction complex and forms the fundamental boundary between rocks deposited along the ancient western margin of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and structural setting of the Regal Ridge emerald property,...
Emerald at the Regal Ridge property in the Finlayson Lake district of southeastern Yukon is hosted within mid-Paleozoic mafic metavolcanic and metaplutonic rocks. These rocks...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Nature of the Robert Service Thrust on Fork Plateau and implications for...
Revision geological mapping has shown that the Robert Service Thrust is imbricated and isoclinally folded in Mayo map area. On Fork Plateau, highly deformed Keno Hill quartzite...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Norm Ross: A long way from the halfway
This article is an interview between the author and Norm Ross. Ross describes his involvement in Yukon's placer mining industry since 1980. He talks about the fluctuations in...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
NH4 geochemistry near sedimentary exhalative deposits in Selwyn Basin: A...
Studies conducted on two Alaskan shale-hosted stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag deposits showed that the NH4 content of illites increased toward the ore bodies and might be used as an...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Overview of Yukon placer geology, gold production and prospects
The physiography and glacial history of Yukon bear directly on the geological setting, grade and economic viability of Yukon placer deposits. The limits of several advances of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Permo-Triassic Isotopic Dates for Blueschist, Ross River Area, Yukon
Rb-Sr and K-Ar age determinations for muscovite-bearing blueschist in the Yukon Tanana terrane near Ross River indicate a minimum metamorphic age of approximately 250 Ma, and a...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 -
Quaternary, structural and engineering geology of the Aishihik River...
The Aishihik River landslide is a prehistoric slope failure located on a southwest-facing slope of the Ruby Range along the Alaska Highway. The failed mass consists of gneissic...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML