Yukon gold project

育空地区和阿拉斯加东部邻近地区目前正经历着非常高水平的黄金勘探活动，与领土历史上任何时候相比，育空地区在黄金勘探上的权益和花费的美元都要多。在过去十年中，通过加拿大地质调查局、育空地质调查局和矿产勘探行业的投资，我们对该地区的区域地质环境和金矿化控制因素的了解有所改善；然而，目前该地区油气行业用于执行勘探决策和支出的知识库仍然相对较差。新一代改进的地质工具和对金矿形成控制的理解是促进育空地区勘探和发现的新时代的必要条件。我们将承担一项为期两年的联合研究项目，由nserc支持，旨在开发育空地区西部和阿拉斯加东部黄金地区地质环境的综合模型。这项新知识的关键目标是提高黄金勘探的有效性，以帮助发现新的黄金资源，造福加拿大北部。该项目将重点关注育空西部新兴的Dawson Range和White Gold地区，该地区最近宣布至少有200万盎司以上的黄金资源和大量其他令人兴奋的新金矿发现。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/白金地区的金矿床和矿点的性质、来源和形成的控制。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（通过砂矿金的表征来寻找矿脉金），这些方法将特别适用于加拿大北部未冰川覆盖的地区。该项目将有12名研究人员参与，其中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，五名研究生和两名本科生），他们都将在地质，地球化学和矿产勘探领域获得宝贵的培训和经验。

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.