Yukon gold project

目前，育空地区和阿拉斯加东部邻近地区的黄金勘探活动非常频繁，育空地区的黄金勘探申请和花费的美元比领土历史上任何时候都多。 在过去的十年中，通过加拿大地质调查局、育空地区地质调查局和矿产勘探行业的投资，我们对该地区金矿化的区域地质背景和控制的了解有所改善;然而，该行业现在用来执行勘探决策和支出的知识基础仍然相对较差。 需要新一代改进的地质工具和对金矿形成控制的了解，以促进育空地区改进勘探和发现的新时代。 我们将开展一项为期两年的、由工业界和NSERC联合支持的研究项目，旨在为育空地区西部和阿拉斯加东部的金矿区开发地质环境综合模型。 这一新知识的主要目标是提高黄金勘探的有效性，以协助发现新的黄金资源，为北方加拿大的利益。 该项目将重点关注育空地区西部新兴的道森山脉和白色金矿区，这些地区最近宣布至少有两个新的百万（+）盎司黄金资源和大量其他令人兴奋的新黄金发现。 我们将进行区域、地区和财产规模的研究，以确定整个道森山脉/白色金矿区的金矿和矿点的形成的性质、起源和控制。 我们还将改进现有的勘探技术（土壤地球化学），并开发新的方法（从砂金的特性中寻找矿脉金），这将特别适用于加拿大北方的非冰川地区。共有12名研究人员将参与该项目，包括申请人和一名合作科学家，以及其他9名HQP（一名研究助理，一名博士后研究员，五名研究生和两名本科生），他们都将获得地质学，地球化学和矿产勘探领域的宝贵培训和经验。

The Yukon and adjacent parts of eastern Alaska are currently experiencing a remarkably high level of gold exploration activity, with more claims staked and more dollars being spent on gold exploration in the Yukon than at any other time in the Territory's history. Our understanding of the regional geological setting and controls on gold mineralization in this region has improved somewhat over the last decade through investments by the Geological Survey of Canada, the Yukon Geological Survey, and the mineral exploration industry; however, the knowledge-base that industry now utilize to execute exploration decisions and expenditures in the region is still relatively poor. A new generation of improved geological tools and an understanding of the controls of gold deposits formation is required to facilitate a new era of improved exploration and discovery for Yukon. We will undertake a two-year, joint industry-NSERC supported research project aimed at developing integrated models of geological settings for gold districts in western Yukon Territory and eastern Alaska. The key objective of this new knowledge is to increase gold exploration effectiveness to assist in discovery of new gold resources for the benefit of northern Canada. The project will focus on the emerging Dawson Range and White Gold districts of western Yukon, which have recent announcements of at least two new million(+) ounce gold resources and a substantial number of other exciting new gold discoveries. We will carry out regional, district, and property scale studies to determine the nature, origin and controls of formation of gold deposits and occurrences throughout the Dawson Range/White Gold region. We will also refine existing exploration technologies (soil geochemistry) and develop new methods (targeting lode gold from characterization of placer gold) that will be particularly applicable to the unglaciated parts of northern Canada. A total of 12 researchers will be involved in the project, including the applicants and one collaborating scientist, as well as 9 other HQP (a Research Associate, a post-doctoral fellow, five graduate and two undergraduate students), all of whom will gain valuable training and experience in the fields of geology, geochemistry, and mineral exploration.