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Employment opportunities

We're now accepting applications for summer student field positions.

We're looking for current undergraduate students (or equivalent) who:

• are studying geology; or
• have work experience in a geology field camp.

Apply for a summer job

Submit your résumé and cover letter outlining your experience. You can address your submission to Tiffani Fraser.
Email: tiffani.fraser@gov.yk.ca

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. on March 1, 2020.

Yukon Exploration and Geology (YEG) 2019

Overview 2019

• Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2019. K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), 2020. Yukon Geological Survey, 78 p.

Technical papers

• Ambrose, T. and Bowie, S., 2020. Preliminary report on the bedrock geology of the Rackla River area, southern Wernecke Mountains, Yukon (parts of NTS 106C/4, 5 and 106D/1, 8). In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2019, K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 1–21.
• Bullen, W., 2020. New mineral potential mapping methodology for Yukon: Case studies from the Beaver River and Dawson regional land use planning areas. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2019, K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 23–42.
• Cobbett, R., 2020. Preliminary report on the bedrock geology of Castle Mountain area, Yukon (parts of NTS 105D/6). In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2019, K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 43–55.
• Langevin, H., Fraser, T. and Raymond J., 2020. Assessment of thermo-hydraulic properties of rock samples near Takhini Hot Springs, Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2019, K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 57–73.
• Lee, W.-S., Kontak, D.J. Richards, J.P. and Sack, P. 2020. Updated geology and porphyry copper potential of the Klaza deposit, Mount Nansen district (Yukon MINFILE 115I 067). In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2019, K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 75–97.
• Sack, P., Gabites, J., Crowley, J., Benowitz, J., McFarlane, C., Gobadi, M. and Ferraro, D., 2020. Geochronologic and Pb-isotopic constraints on gold mineralization at the Plateau South property (Yukon MINFILE 105N 034, 035, 036), central Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2019, K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 99-119.
• Wiest, A.C., Beranek, L.P. and Manor, M.J., 2020. Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic stratigraphy of the Faro Peak formation, southern Tay River map area, central Yukon (NTS 105K). In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2019, K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 121-139.

Open files

Colpron, M., 2019. Potential radiogenic heat production from granitoid plutons in Yukon; YGS Open File 2019–16.

Geoscience maps

Bordet, E., 2019. Bedrock geology map of the eastern Lake Laberge area (parts of NTS 105E/2,3,6,7 and 105D/15,16).Yukon Geological Survey, Geoscience Map GM2019–1, scale 1:50000, 2 sheets.