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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: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Canyon property, southeastern Yukon
Galena and pyrrhotite occur in manganese-stained quartz-carbonate breccia beneath rusty limestone. Surface geology of the area suggests that the mineralization is a replacement...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology and Gold Deposits at Ketza River, Yukon Territory
Gold mineralization at the Ketza River Mine occurs in massive manto replacement deposits along preferred horizons within Lower Cambrian limestone. Primary economic deposits...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date 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: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Clastic sediment production and diagenesis in selected western North...
This dissertation presents investigations into the patterns of clastic sedimentation and diagenesis of coarse clastic sediments at ten caves and rock shelters at sites in the...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date 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: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Report of 1982 field work on Early Tertiary clastics, west-central Yukon
Eight lithofacies types have been identified. These include: 1) Gms - massive, matrix support conglomerate; 2) Gm - massive or crudely bedded, clast supported conglomerate; 3)...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
An Evaluation of Ground Penetrating Radar as a Tool in Placer Exploration
A test of ground penetrating radar (GPR) was conducted on 10 placer deposits throughout the Yukon in March 1993. At each site, profile surveys were conducted near known depths...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Experimental Reclamation Project, Shrub Trial Plots - Brewery Creek Mine
In September 2000, eleven shrub species were planted in experimental plots at three different areas of the Brewery Creek Gold Mine near the Klondike River. All of these shrub...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Airborne EM and Mag Survey, Jakes Corner Project (105C/5, 12 & 105D/8, 9)
Airborne EM and MAG Survey, Jakes Corner Project, including seven 1:50 000-scale geophysical maps with marginal notes. The surveyed area covers NTS maps sheets 105 C/5, 12 and...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Structural settings and geochemistry of the Cynthia gold prospect, Tintina...
The Cynthia property overlies a large (greater than 2x2 km) area of gold mineralization related to a Cretaceous Tombstone Suite quartz monzonite intrusive body. The...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106D (north...
This map of the magnetic total field was derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys during the period April 17, 2006 to...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106C (north...
This map of the magnetic total field was derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys during the period April 17, 2006 to...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106B (NW...
This map of the magnetic total field was derived from data acquired during an aeromagnetic survey carried out by Fugro Airborne Surveys during the period April 17, 2006 to...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Preliminary bedrock geology of part of Stevenson Ridge area (NTS 115J/3, 4,...
Stevenson Ridge map area is generally poorly exposed due to heavy vegetative cover and an extensive veneer of Quaternary sediment. The nature of bedrock and contact...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
U-Pb isotopic age dating by LAM ICP-MS, INCO Innovation Centre, Memorial...
This contribution reports on sample preparation methods and Laser Ablation Microprobe Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LAM ICP-MS) analytical techniques routinely...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Natural Sources of Contaminants in the Yukon
This study investigated background levels and uptake rates of organophilic metals, particularly selenium, in ten streams draining portions of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane and...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
What’s the Yukon Territory made of? Earth materials portrayed on a...
The Yukon Geological Survey (YGS), in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), is preparing a geological highway map (1:2 000 000 scale) of the territory with...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date 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: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Initial results from the first year of the Permafrost Outreach Program, Yukon, Canada
In 2007, a permafrost outreach program was initiated in Yukon, Canada by installing long-term permafrost monitoring stations near public schools in Whitehorse, Faro, Ross...Date updated: 2026-05-15Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML