Placer gold microchemical characterization and shape analysis applied as an exploration tool in western Yukon

• Main Author: Wrighton, Timothy Michael
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2013
• Subjects: Crawford; Dawson Range; Eureka; Gulch; Seymour; Sixtymile; Sonora Gulch; Thistle Creek; Yukon; Dawson
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44513

Western Yukon is underlain by metamorphic, extrusive and intrusive rocks that are associated with a variety of orogenic, epithermal and porphyry-style mineral occurrences. This region is unglaciated, exhibits poor bedrock exposure and contains abundant and, in some cases, unusually rich residual pla...