GSC Open File Release Notices

OPEN FILE 388

Uranium Reconnaissance Program: orientation studies in uranium exploration in the Yukon, by I.R. Jonasson and W.D. Goodfellow

This item will be released on November 29, 1976 at 1:00 p.m. E.S.T. (and equivalent local times).

This file consists of two parts:

          1.  A description of geochemical pilot studies carried out in July 1975 over selected areas of the southern Yukon. Analytical are presented on stream sediment and water, rocks and heavy mineral separates. Areas covered include parts of the Pelly Mountains, Selwyn Mountains, Ogilvie Mountains, Big Salmon Ranges, Dawson Ranges and Kluane Ranges.

          2.  A discussion of stream water data acquired through the summer of 1976 from ten detailed areas within 106E, 116A, 116B and 116G covering parts of the Wernecke and Ogilvie mountains of the central Yukon. The following information is recorded: Uranium, fluorine and pH in stream waters. A short report discussing the interpretation of preliminary data is included.

Copies will be available for viewing at the offices of the Geological Survey of Canada, and at the offices of the Resident Geologists, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs at Whitehorse, Yukon and Yellowknife, N.W.T. Copies will be available from K.G. Campbell Quickprint, 880 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 6K7 and Riley's Data Share International Limited, 631-8th Avenue S.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2P 0W9. Copies of this report, which was announced in the November 1976 circular, can also be putchased from Superior Reproductions and Printing, 1130 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6E 3J1.