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Summer student field positions

Learn about our summer field positions! Send your resume to tyler.ambrose@yukon.ca by March 10, 2023.

Visiting the core library

The core library facilities are open again for use by clients. Access is controlled. Contact the core library to book the facilities.

• Email: ygs-mineral@yukon.ca
• Phone: 867-393-6492

We ask that visitors wear a mask in the core library.

Visiting Yukon Geological Survey at the Elijah Smith Building

The Yukon Geological Survey office in downtown Whitehorse is open to the public.

Make an appointment before your visit.

• Email: geology@yukon.ca
• Phone: 867-667-8508

We ask that visitors wear a mask in the building.

Yukon Placer Mining Industry 2018 to 2020. S. van Loon and J.D. Bond

Yukon Exploration and Geology

Overview 2022 

Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2022. K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), 2023. Yukon Geological Survey, 70 p. 

Yukon Exploration and Geology papers 2022

• Biegel, K., Gosselin, J. and Dettmer, J., 2023. Preliminary double-difference relocation earthquake catalogue for southwestern Yukon centred along the Denali fault zone.
• Bodtker, J., Cronmiller, D.C, Bond, J.D. and Shugar, D., 2023. The Sunnydale landslide, current understanding and research, Dawson (NTS 116B/3).
• Chapman, F.M., Miranda, M., Soucy La Roche, R. and Raymond, J., 2023. Fracture network analysis in the Duke River area, southwestern Yukon.
• Gosselin, J.M, Biegel, K, Hamidbeygi, M. and Dettmer, J., 2023. Improvements in the regional earthquake focal mechanism catalogue for southwestern Yukon.
• Hatton, C., Ielpi, A., Cronmiller, D.C. and Painter, M., 2023. Geomorphic assessment of Tsǟlnjik Chú (Nordenskiold River) near Carmacks, Klondike region, Yukon.
• Moynihan, D., 2023. A preliminary geological interpretation of the Mount Grant–Evelyn Creek area, southern Yukon (parts of 105C/11, 12, 13, 14).
• Painter, M., Cronmiller, D.C. and Bond, J.D., 2023. Mapping the rate of change of select glaciers using satellite and ground-based observations, Yukon and northwestern British Columbia.

You can also download a volume containing all of the papers for 2022.

Open files

• Colpron, M. (compiler), 2022. Yukon Bedrock Geology Map. Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2022-1, 1:1 000 000 scale map and legend.
• Sack, P.J., Colpron, M. and Crowley, J.L., 2022. U-Pb zircon geochronology from a Late Triassic pluton in the Mount Nansen area. Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2022-2.
• Moynihan, D., 2022. Preliminary geological map of the Boswell River area (parts of NTS 105C/13,14, 105F/4 and 105E/1). Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2022-3, scale 1:50000.
• Sack, P., Eriks, N. and van Loon, S., 2022. Revised geological map of Mount Nansen area (NTS 115/I3 and part of 115I/2). Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2022-4, 2 sheets: sheet 1 scale 1:50 000 and sheet 2 scale 1:20 000.
• Ambrose, T., 2022. Preliminary bedrock geology map of the Rusty Mountain and Bonnet Plume Pass areas, southern Wernecke Mountains, Yukon (NTS 106C/3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 106D/1, 8). Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2022-5, scale 1:50 000.
• Skipton, D.R., 2022. Preliminary geological map of the southern Nash Creek area, central Yukon (parts of NTS 106D/2, 3, 6, 7). Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2022-6, scale 1:50000.
• Tschirhart, V., Craven, J., Colpron, M. and Quantec Geoscience Ltd., 2022. Audiomagnetotelluric and broadband magnetotelluric data for geothermal exploration in the Burwash Landing area. Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2022-7.
• Witter, J.B, 2022. Analysis of geoscience data for geothermal exploration along the Tintina fault near Watson Lake, Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2022-8, 50 p. plus digital appendices.
• Cobbett, R., 2022. Preliminary geological map of the Castle Mountain area, central Yukon (parts of NTS 106D/5, 6, 11, 12). Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2022-9, scale 1:50 000.

Bulletins

• Lipovsky, P.S. and Bond, J.D., 2022. Surficial geology and Quaternary history of Stevenson Ridge and northern parts of Kluane Lake map areas, Yukon (115K and 115F). Yukon Geological Survey, Bulletin 18, 84 p. plus appendices.

Miscellaneous reports

• Lewis, L.L. and Relf, C., 2021. Yukon critical minerals inventory 2021. Yukon Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Report 23, 84 p.
• Bullen, W., 2021. Data-driven, early-exploration predictive indicators for porphyry-style mineralization in Yukon using deconstructed *weights of evidence modelling. Yukon Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Report 24.
• Bullen, W., 2021. Mineral potential/*confidence in geological mapping for the Dawson Region Land Use Planning area. Yukon Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Report 25.

Data sets

• Lithogeochemistry data set: the lithogeochemical data provide the chemical composition of rock samples. Released August 2020.
• Yukon Permafrost Database: a database of geotechnical boreholes, ground temperature, and reports relating to permafrost in the Yukon.