Yukon Tombstone Mineral Assessment for Park Boundary Planning, 1998-2000

A 1998 mineral assessment of the Tombstone study area in Yukon was conducted by the Department of Economic Development. The program documented known occurrences, discovered new ones, and integrated data into thirteen geological tracts. A panel of five experts ranked these tracts by mineral potential in June 1999 to assist finalizing Tombstone Territorial Park boundaries.

Use Cases

• Generate mineral potential maps based on geological tract rankings.
• Identify favorable environments for intrusion-hosted mineralization based on tract descriptions.
• Analyze spatial relationships between Cretaceous intrusions and high-potential tracts.
• Support land-use planning decisions by integrating geological assessment with wildlife survey data.

Strengths

• Assessment conducted by a panel of five industry and government experts.
• Field program discovered several new mineral occurrences and unmapped geological formations.
• Final boundary adopted in December 2000, providing a concrete planning outcome.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The final park boundary includes areas not assessed in this study.

Provenance

Source

Government of Yukon

Collection Method

Field program followed by expert panel compilation.

Time Range

1998-2000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:57:13.178637; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tombstone study area, Yukon, Canada