Yukon-Alaska Metallogeny Project

育空-阿拉斯加成矿项目

• 批准号: 488645-2015
• 负责人: Hart, Craig
• 金额: $ 8.61万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=600750
• 关键词: Yukon; Alaska; Metallogeny; Project

The Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s drew thousands of fortune-seekers to the Yukon Territory to mine gold-bearing gravels. Exploration for the bedrock source of gold and other commodities continues to the present day in the Yukon, with $1.8B spent on mineral exploration and development since 2007. Such activity has led to some important advanced-stage mineral exploration projects that have discovered over 8 million ounces of gold, including the Coffee gold deposit, the Klaza gold-silver deposit, the White Gold deposit, and the Nucleus gold-silver deposit. However, much of the mineral exploration that was done was unable to benefit from an understanding of metallogeny - the geological controls on where ore forms - because it hadn't yet been established.

19世纪90年代的克朗代克淘金热吸引了成千上万的淘金者来到育空地区开采含金砾石。在育空地区，对黄金和其他商品的基岩来源的勘探一直持续到今天，自2007年以来，在矿产勘探和开发方面花费了18亿美元。这种活动导致了一些重要的高级矿产勘探项目，发现了800多万盎司的黄金，包括咖啡金存款、克拉扎金-银存款、白色存款和核金-银存款。然而，所做的大部分矿物勘探都无法从对成矿作用的理解中获益--成矿作用是对矿石形成的地质控制--因为它还没有建立起来。