Yukon-Alaska Metallogeny Project

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到育空地区开采含金的砾石。育空地区对黄金和其他大宗商品基岩资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的投资已达18亿美元。这些活动导致了一些重要的高级矿产勘探项目，已发现了800多万盎司的黄金，包括咖啡金矿、克拉扎金银矿床、怀特金矿和纽核金银矿床。然而，许多已经完成的矿产勘探都无法从对成矿作用的理解中获益——对矿石形成的地质控制——因为它还没有建立起来。

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.