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Visiting the core library

• You must make an appointment at least 3 days in advance. Drops-ins are not allowed. Phone 867-667-8508 or email geology@yukon.ca.
• Only 1 party of up to 2 people can use the facilities at a time.
• Access to the core library is through the rear of the building. We will open the gate for you.
• You must sanitize equipment and surfaces before and after working in the area. We will provide disinfectant.
• You must wear a mask at all times when visiting the core library.
• You must bring your own personal protective equipment. To use the saw room, this includes:
  • hearing protection;
  • eye protection; and
  • a NIOSH-certified respirator.

Visiting Yukon Geological Survey at the Elijah Smith Building

Due to health advisories about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Yukon Geological Survey’s offices in downtown Whitehorse have restricted access. Contact our staff by email or phone to make an appointment prior to visiting.

YGS activity sheets

We have created activity sheets for a wide range of ages and will continue to update them as we make them: 

• The Rock Cycle: handout and interactive quiz!
  • Make sure you read The Rock Cycle handout first – all the answers are in there!
  • The Kahoot quiz can only be played with the Kahoot App on your iOS or Android device. You can download the Kahoot App for free.
  • Go to “Enter PIN” and enter 02602640.
  • If you are unable to download the app, the quiz is available here as well.
• help our geologist avoid a bear encounter with this maze.
• find these Rock Cycle-related words in this word search.
• help our geologist traverse back to camp with this maze.
• find these geology-related words in this word search.
• read the descriptions of these geology-related words and fill in the blank.

​Download the answer key.

Yukon Exploration and Geology (YEG) 2020

Overview 2020

• Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2020. K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), 2021. Yukon Geological Survey, 65 p.

Technical papers

• Pinet, N., 2021. Structural geology of the eastern Richardson Mountains, Yukon and Northwest Territories: Some field observations and a note of caution for palinspastic reconstructions.

• Fraser, T.A., Milton, J. and Gouwy, S.A, 2021. New geochemistry from old drill holes at the Tom property, Macmillan Pass, Yukon.

• Colpron, M., Hayward, N. and Crowley, J.L., 2021. Potential heat production from the Seagull and Teslin plutonic suites, southern Yukon: Geochemistry, geochronology, rock physical properties, and 3D geophysical inversion of Bouguer gravity data.

• Skipton, D. and Maw, L., 2021. Updated geology of the Clark Lakes area in central Yukon (parts of 106D/2, 3, 6 and 7).

• Ambrose, T., 2021. Update on the bedrock geology of the Rusty Mountain area, southern Wernecke Mountains, Yukon (parts of NTS 106C/4, 5, 12 and 106D/1, 8). 

• Kishchuk, M.J., Lipovsky, P.S., Bond, J.D. and Gosse, J.C., 2021. Preliminary investigation of geological controls on radon concentration in surficial sediment in Whitehorse, Yukon (NTS 105D/11, 14).

• Kamal, D. and Hickey, K.A., 2021. The geometry and kinematic history of Cordilleran deformation at the Howard’s Pass shale-hosted massive sulphide deposit, Yukon: 1st year progress report. 

• Ackerson, C.M, Ward, B. and Kennedy, K., 2021. Surficial geological mapping of the central Kluane Ranges (parts of NTS 115G/1, 2, 3, 7 and 115B/15, 16), southwestern Yukon.

Open files

Steiner, A.P. and Hickey, K.A., 2021. Bedrock geology map of the Nadaleen-Anubis fault corridor, eastern Rackla belt (parts of 106C/1,2). Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2021-1.

Miscellaneous reports

• Langevin, H., Fraser, T.A. and Raymond, J., 2020. Assessment of the thermo-hydraulic properties of rock samples near Takhini Hot Springs and in the Tintina fault zone, Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Report 19, 30 p.
• Cronmiller, D.C, McParland, D.J., Goguen, K.M. and McKillop, R.J., 2020. Carmacks surficial geology and community hazard susceptibility mapping. Yukon Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Report 20, 16 p. plus appendices.

Data sets

Lithogeochemistry data set: the lithogeochemical data provide the chemical composition of rock samples. Released August, 2020.