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The discovery of a Tertiary epithermal gold-silver prospect in the Tintina Trench, Yukon Territory, indicates potential for similar mineralization elsewhere along this structurally controlled depression.  A drift prospecting study was initiated in the summer of 1987 to help determine if a relationship between placer gold, ice-flow direction and Tertiary volcanic rocks existed.  The project consisted of a Quaternary geology study including stratigraphy, identification of ice flow and the glacial dispersal of rock fragments as well as till geochemistry.  Samples weighed from 3 to 5 kg each.  The data are found in Carleton University M.Sc. thesis (Plouffe, 1989).

Funding was provided by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Noranda Exploration Company and the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre.