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Recent Publications


Yukon Exploration and Geology 2007
edited by D.S. Emond, L.R. Blackburn, R.P. Hill, and L.H. Weston
Our flagship publication. Free pdf downloads! 

 

 


Ecoregions of the Yukon Territory - Biophysical Properties of a Yukon Landscape 

Ecoregions of the Yukon Territory - Biophysical Properties of a Yukon Landscape
edited by C.A.S. Smith, J.C Meikle and C.F. Roots, includes map of ecoregions at 1:2 500 000 scale. This volume has just undergone a second printing and is now available in full-colour hard-cover book format ($45.00) and on CD-ROM ($30.00


Yukon Placer Mining Industry 2003 to 2006

Yukon Placer Mining Industry 2003 to 2006
New
compiled by W.P. LeBarge and C.S. Welsh.
This is a four-year summary of placer mining activity in the Yukon [23 MB ]


Yukon Mineral Deposits 2007

Yukon Mineral Deposits 2007
compiled by S. Traynor
Table summary of Yukon Mineral Deposits.
Download Yukon Mineral Deposits [1.7 MB ]


Yukon Mineral Property Update 2007

Yukon Mineral Property Update 2007
compiled by K. Galambos, L. Lewis and S. Traynor
Download Yukon Mineral Property Update [2 MB ]


Brochures

Joint Economic Development and Yukon Geological Survey Brochures:

Yukon Geological Survey Brochures:


Databases

Yukon Placer Database 2007 - Geology and mining activity of placer occurrences
compiled by W.P. LeBarge
Download maps and database free (Access2000 - 488 MB version or run-time version - 397 MB)
CD-ROM $30.00

Yukon Igneous Database Online - Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks, 2007
compiled by J. Mair, C. Hart and L. Lewis

Yukon MINFILE Online - A database of mineral occurrences
compiled by R. Deklerk

Yukon Geoscience Publications Database Online, 2007
compiled by D.S. Emond, L.H. Weston and L.L. Lewis


Mining and Petroleum Environment Research Group (MPERG) Reports

MPERG Report 2007-1: Regeneration on Linear Developments Subject to Wildfires in a Zone of Continuous Permafrost [3.5 MB
Non-Technical Summary [.01 MB
by C. Jacobsen

MPERG Report 2007-2: Reference Condition Approach Bioassessment of Yukon River Basin Placer Mining Streams Sampled in 2006 [2 MB
Non-Technical Summary [.01MB ]
by J.L. Bailey, T.B. Reynoldson and R.C. Bailey

MPERG Report 2007-3: Gold Run Creek Erosion Control Project: 2006 Follow-up Monitoring [2 MB
Non-Technical Summary [.01 MB ]
by Laberge Environmental Services

MPERG Report 2007-4: Shrub Trial Plots – Brewery Creek Mine: 2006 Follow-up Monitoring [3 MB
Non-Technical Summary [.01 MB ]
by Laberge Environmental Services 

MPERG Report 2007-5: 2006 Regional Water Quality, Sediment and Benthic Invertebrate Assessment for the South MacMillan River Watershed, MacMillan Pass, Yukon [3.6 MB
Non-Technical Summary [.09 MB ]
by Gartner Lee Ltd.


Open Files

2008 Open Files

Table Listing of Published maps for Wernecke Mountains, Yukon aeromagnetic survey:

 NTS Sheet No.

 Total Magnetic Field

 First Vertical Derivative

 GSC Open File/YGS Open File

 GSC Open File/YGS Open File

 106 B/NW (part)

 5411/2008-05

5418/2008-12

 106 B/S (part)

 5412/2008-06

5419/2008-13

 106 C/N (part)

 5413/2008-07

5420/2008-14

 106 C/S

 5414/2008-08

5421/2008-15

 106 D/N

 5415/2008-09

5422/2008-16

 106 E/S (part)

 5416/2008-10

5423/2008-17

 106 F/S (part)

 5417/2008-11

5424/2008-18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All Yukon geophysical surveys can be downloaded free of charge from the Geoscience Data Repository from Natural Resources Canada.

 

 

Open File 2008-1: Allen, T.L., Fraser, T.A. and Osadetz, K.G., 2008. Rock-Eval/TOC data for 18 wells, Peel Plateau and Plain, Yukon Territory (65o 50’ to 67 o 00’ N; 133 o 45’ to 135 o 15’ W). Yukon Geological Survey, 14 p. plus spreadsheet(s). [0.8 MB ] or Spreadsheet [0.2 MB ]

 

 

 

 

Open File 2008-5: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106B (NW quadrant), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5411, scale 1:100 000. [6.9 MB

Open File 2008-6: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106B (south half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5412, scale 1:100 000. [13.2 MB

Open File 2008-7: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106C (north half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5413, scale 1:100 000.

Open File 2008-8: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106C (south half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5414, scale 1:100 000. [17.5 MB

Open File 2008-9: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106D (north half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5415, scale 1:100 000. [23.9 MB

Open File 2008-10: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106E (south half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5416, scale 1:100 000. [19.0 MB

Open File 2008-11: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. Total field magnetic, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106F (south half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5417, scale 1:100 000. [17.2 MB

Open File 2008-12: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106B (NW quadrant), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5417, scale 1:100 000. [7.0 MB

Open File 2008-13: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106B (south half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5418, scale 1:100 000. [12.3 MB

Open File 2008-14: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106C (north half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5419, scale 1:100 000. [12.4 MB

Open File 2008-15: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106C (south half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5420, scale 1:100 000. [12.5 MB

Open File 2008-16: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106D (north half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5421, scale 1:100 000. [12.3 MB

Open File 2008-17: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106E (south half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5421, scale 1:100 000. [10.8 MB

Open File 2008-18: Kiss, F. and Coyle, M., 2008. First vertical derivative of the magnetic field, Wernecke Mountain Aeromagnetic Survey, NTS 106F (south half), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5423, scale 1:100 000. [11.9 MB


 

2007 Open Files

YGS Open File 2007-1/NWT Open File 2007-002: Rock-Eval 6/TOC analyses from outcrop samples in northern Mackenzie Mountains, eastern Richardson Mountains, and southern Peel Plateau and Plain, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Canada [1 MB ]
by L.P. Gal, T.L. Allen, T.A. Fraser, T. Hadlari, Y. Lemieux, L.J. Pyle and W.G. Zantvoort
Report, readme, spreadsheet; all files free on-line

YGS Open File 2007-2: Yukon Stratigraphic Correlation Chart [20 MB ]
by L. Pigage
$5.00

YGS Open File 2007-3: A transect through the accreted terranes of the northern Canadian Cordillera: from Cassiar, British Columbia to Kluane Lake, Yukon [18 MB ]
by M. Colpron, J. Nelson, and S. Israel
Guide Book No. 15 for Arizona Geological Society Ores & Orogenesis Symposium, September 24-30, 2007: Tucson, Arizona Geological Society; Yukon Geological Survey, 84 p. plus 1:1 000 000-scale map
$20.00

YGS Open File 2007-4: Preliminary Geology Map of NTS 95D/6 (1:50 000 scale) [8 MB ]
by L. Pigage
$5.00

YGS Open File 2007-5: List of Wells and Formation Tops, Yukon Territory, version 1.0 [0.2 MB ]
by T. Fraser and B. Hogue
1 p. plus spreadsheet [ 0.2 MB]

YGS Open File 2007-6: Geology of the northern Whitehorse trough, Yukon (NTS 105 E/12, 13, and parts of 11 and 14; 105L/4 and parts of 3 and 5; parts of 115H/9 and 16; 115I/1 and part of 8)(1:150 000-scale) [25 MB ]
by M. Colpron, S. Gordey, G. Lowey, D. White and S. Piercey
$5.00

YGS Open File 2007-7: Bedrock Geology, Miles Ridge area, Yukon (parts of NTS 115F/15, 16 and 115K/1, 2)(1:50 000 scale) [3 MB ]
by S. Israel
$5.00

YGS Open File 2007-8: Bedrock Geology, Koidern River area, Yukon (parts of NTS 115F/9, 15, 16 and 115G/12)(1: 50 000 scale) [3 MB ]
by S. Israel
$5.00

YGS Open File 2007-9: Bedrock geology of part of Stevenson Ridge area, Yukon (NTS 115J/3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, part of 11 and 12; 115K/1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, part of 15 and 16)(1:125 000 scale) [10 MB ]
by D. Murphy, C. van Staal and J.K. Mortensen
$5.00

 

 

Roadside Geology of the Dempster Highway, Northwest Territories and Yukon - A traveler’s guide to the Geology of Canada’s most northwestern road. Yukon Geological Survey and Northwest Territories Geoscience Office; YGS Open File 2007-10 / NWT Open Report 2007-05, 92 p., $20.00 by Pyle, L., Roots, C., Allen, T., Fraser, T., Bond, J., Jones, A. and Gal, L., 2007.[3 MB

 


 

Roadside Geology of the Dempster Highway, Northwest Territories & Yukon - A geological roadmap for Canada’s most northwestern road. Yukon Geological Survey and Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, YGS Open File 2007-11 / NWT Open Report 2007-009, 1 folded map with notes, ???$ by Jones, A.L. & Pyle, L.J. (compilers), 2007.[3 MB


Posters

2008 Mineral Exploration Roundup:

 

2007 Geoscience Forum: