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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 -
Paleomagnetic study of the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, Yukon:...
Paleomagnetic results are presented for 154 specimens from 16 sites in the Late Cretaceous Seymour Creek stock, a small granodioritic intrusion emplaced into Paleozoic gneisses...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Paleomagnetic Study of the mid-Cretaceous Mount McIntyre pluton, Whitehorse...
The paleomagnetic signature of the mid-Cretaceous Mount McIntyre Pluton, west of Whitehorse, was evaluated to develop a better understanding of the motion history 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 -
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 -
Post-glacial vegetation history of the Aishihik Basin and its vicinity,...
Nine pollen profiles were obtained along a broad latitudinal transect extending from the Upper Nisling Valley to the Ittlemit Lake and Bear Lakes areas in the southwest Yukon...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Post-mining hydrogeochemical conditions, Brewery Creek gold deposit, central Yukon
A reconnaissance-level study of post-mining hydrogeochemical conditions was carried out at the Brewery Creek gold deposit within the Tintina Gold Province. The deposit is...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 -
New paleontological investigations of upper Triassic shallow-water reef...
The thickest and best-developed Upper Triassic reef complex in the entire North American Cordillera is at Lime Peak in the southern Yukon. The Lime Peak reef complex is a...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Rock River Basin (NTS 95D/11 and 14)
Coal was discovered in the Rock River Basin by Sulpetro Minerals Ltd. In July 1980, and five holes sunk to delimit coal occurrences in September 1981. Samples were collected...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sedimentology and stratigraphy of Duncan Creek placer deposits, Mayo, central Yukon
Placer deposits in the Mayo area occur in a wide variety of geomorphic settings, including alluvial fans, gulch gravels, valley-bottoms (alluvial plains), and bedrock terrace...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sedimentology of a high level terrace placer gold deposit, Klondike Valley, Yukon
Significant economic concentrations of placer gold were first recognized in an intermediate level terrace near Dawson City in the late 1980's Regional surficial mapping has...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Selected excerpts from placer gold recovery research
The highest percentage gold recoveries occurred at mines which screened their feed to minus one inch, used both expanded metal and angle iron riffles on top of nomad matting...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Silver-bearing veins and replacement deposits of the Rancheria District
Numerous silver-rich, galena- and sphalerite-bearing veins and stratabound lenses are located on both sides of the Yukon-British Columbia border in the Rancheria District. Some...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Silver-lead-zinc deposits of the Keno Hill-Galena Hill area, central Yukon
The Keno Hill-Galena Hill area is underlain by Yukon Group metasedimentary rocks which form the southern flank of the McQuesten anticline in the area. A series of faults,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sluicing in the Yukon Territory - 1984
In the Yukon, the relatively low initial cost, high concentrating ratio, durability, high throughput, ease of use and acceptable recovery rates are reasons the sluice, in its...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Soil Geochemistry above Deeply Weathered Porphyry Deposits in Unglaciated...
Much of west-central Yukon escaped glaciation and is underlain by leached and oxidized, deeply weathered bedrock. Background and anomalous metal values in these soils are...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
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,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Reed Creek property, southwestern Yukon
Placer mining on the Reed Creek property in the 1980's produced coarse, angular nuggets with adhering gangue material which resembles quartz-carbonate alteration outcropping on...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Regional mineral resource assessment of Cassiar Terrane and eastern...
In February 2000, Yukon Government Mineral Resources Branch convened a panel of industry geologists to estimate the likelihood of new discoveries in Cassiar Terrane and eastern...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML