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A short history of the finding of gold in the Klondike
Gold was first reported in the Yukon region by fur traders and missionaries in the mid 1800s. Fur trader Robert Campbell noted the presence of gold near the site of Fort...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A brief glimpse into post-Soviet placer mining
The Ural mountain province of Russia is one of the richest and mineralogically diverse regions in the world, with world-class deposits of platinum and PGEs, gold, copper,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age and setting of dinosaur trackways, Ross River area, Yukon Territory (105F/15)
Chert-bearing clastic strata are a common component of Jurassic and younger terrestrial sequences in the Yukon. The discovery of dinosaur trackways in a small inlier of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemical and metallogenic investigations of Cretaceous intrusions in...
The geochronology and geochemistry of Cretaceous intrusions and associated mineralization in southeastern Yukon and southwestern NWT is the focus of a new research project. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemistry, paleotectonic setting and metallogeny of Late...
Late Triassic to Early Jurassic age (~220-185 Ma) intrusions comprise one of the most widespread and volumetrically significant plutonic suites in central and western Yukon,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ag-Pb-Zn Mineralization in the MM Deposit and associated Mississippian...
A sequence of Mississippian felsic volcanic rocks up to 600 m thick occurs in the St. Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains. The volcanic rocks occur in a belt 80 km long and up to...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Assisted revegetation of fine-grained tailings at Whitehorse Copper Mine: A...
Whitehorse Copper Mine, within the city limits of Whitehorse, produced about 10 million tons of fine-grained calc-silicate tailings before its closure in 1982. The tailings,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A structural analysis of the upper Swift River area (105 B/3), Yukon, Part...
Marble, calc-silicate rock and pelitic layers of the Ram Creek assemblage surrounding the Dan Zn (± Cu-Pb-Ag) occurrence display ample evidence of a monocyclic structural...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A summary report on the geology of the Brown-McDade gold-silver deposit,...
The Brown-McDade deposit was the first vein system discovered in the Mount Nansen camp and has produced approximately 34,000 ounces (1058 kg) of gold and 131,000 ounces (4,075...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Auriferous conglomerates at McKinnon Creek, west-central Yukon (115O/11):...
Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks at McKinnon Creek, Indian River area, consist of interbedded sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone and coal, in order of decreasing abundance. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bedrock Geology and Mineralization of the Klondike Area (West), 115O/14, 15...
Geological map (1:50,000 scale) of the West Klondike area, central Yukon (NTS 115O/14,15 and 116B/2,3) including marginal notes on mineral occurrences.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bedrock Geology, Yukon Territory
Geological map (1:1,000,000 scale) of the Yukon Territory, including the following inset maps: terrane map; physiographic regions map; glacial limits map; aeromagnetic image...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bimodal Paleogene volcanics near Tintina fault, east-central Yukon, and...
A bimodal volcanic suite of rhyolite intrusions and flows and columnar olivine basalt, basaltic tuff and tuff breccia occurs along and immediately north of the Tintina Fault...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Bimodal Volcanism Along the Tintina Trench, Near Faro and Ross River
Bimodal Tertiary volcanic rocks are exposed along the Tintina Trench in central Yukon in the Glenlyon, Grew Creek, and Ketza areas. Basalt and rhyolite are interbedded with...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Biogeochemical prospecting in the Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Yukon Territory
Restoration of the 450 km of right lateral movement on the Tintina Fault brings the massive sulphide-rich Finlayson area of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane to a location southeast of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Biostratigraphy of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Laberge Group, Whitehorse...
New ammonite collections from fine-grained rocks of the Laberge Group in the Whitehorse area are assigned nine ammonite zones or assemblages using the recently established...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Biotite chemistry of the Casino porphyry Cu-Mo-Au occurrence, Dawson Range, Yukon
Biotites from hydrothermal alteration zones of the Casino porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit have a chemical composition that is distinct from biotites of the unaltered Dawson Range...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Blende property, central Yukon
The Blende is a large epigenetic zinc-lead-silver deposit hosted by brecciated middle Proterozoic dolomite. Mineralization occurs intermittently along a zone about 6 km long...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Brewery Creek Gold Deposit
Brewery Creek is a bulk tonnage gold deposit 76 km east of Dawson. The economically important intrusive bodies are the semi-conformable sills of quartz monzonite which intrude...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Brewery Creek gold deposit, central Yukon
The Brewery Creek mine is a bulk tonnage gold deposit located 57 km east of Dawson City, in central Yukon, within the foothills of the Ogilvie Mountains along the northeastern...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML