A copy of this thesis is available at the EMR library – QE187 J32. This thesis is available online at https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/185864.

A copy of this thesis is available at the EMR library – QE195.K57 1982.

A copy of this thesis is available at the EMR library – QE195 C56, This thesis is available online at https://archive.org/details/Cholach1969/mode/2up.

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Grew Creek epithermal gold prospect, in south-central Yukon Territory, is adjacent to and southwest of the Robert Campbell Highway, halfway between the communities of Ross River and Faro. The prospect is within the Tintina Trench, which from Late Cretaceous to Tertiary time was a zone of major right lateral movement that juxtaposed the Cambrian and Ordovician slate and phyllites of the Pelly-Cassiar Platform (to the southwest) against rocks of the Anvil Allochthon (to the northeast). Grew Creek rocks are mid-Eocene based on K-Ar dates of basalt of 51.4 ±1.8 Ma and 50.7 ±1.8 Ma and pollen spores in volcaniclastic rock dated at 56 to 46 Ma. Felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks were overlain by a sequence of interbedded coarse clastic sediments, basaltic flows, and basaltic volcaniclastic rock. Late Tertiary uplift and faulting resulted in graben formation and consequent preservation of Eocene rocks in a structurally complex graben bounded to the south by the Grew Creek fault and to the north by the Danger Creek fault. Mineralization at Grew Creek occurs at the tip of a westwardly pointing wedge of dominantly felsic, crystal lithic lapilli tuff. The zone of precious metal deposition is truncated to the northeast by steeply dipping clastic sediments and to the southwest by the Grew Creek Fault. Gold, electrum, pyrite, and silver selenide were identified in a high grade sample from the discovery outcrop. Alteration at Grew Creek is both surficial and hydrothermal. Surficial alteration is ubiquitous, pervasive, and characterized by mixed-layer clays and carbonates. Hydrothermal alteration, responsible for the gold-silver mineralization is closely associated with rhyolitic dykes and is of three types:: silicic, acid sulphate, and argillic acid sulphate. K-Ar dating of sericite indicates hydrothermal alteration is mid-Eocene (51.5 ±1.8 Ma and 47.0 ±1.7 Ma) and synchronous with deposition of the volcanics. Quartz associated with mineralization at Grew Creek is enriched in heavy oxygen isotopes. A deep magmatic source for the mineralized fluids is one explanation for this enrichment.

A copy of this thesis is available at the EMR library – QE195.M368 2011. This thesis is available online at https://emrlibrary.gov.yk.ca/theses/mcquilkin_m_2011.pdf.

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Geology including geological cross sections and mineral occurrences.

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A copy of this thesis is available at the EMR library – QE195 M321. This thesis is available online at https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0302650.