The Yukon mineral industry report for 1971 and 1972 was compiled by the Northern Economic Development Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Information was gathered from property visits, communication with company personnel, technical reports, trade journals, and reports from Mining Recorders in Dawson, Mayo, Watson Lake, and Whitehorse districts. The report is available in HTML and PDF formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyze historical mineral industry trends based on aggregated company and government reports
- Study regional economic development patterns based on data from four mining districts
- Research government oversight and reporting of natural resource extraction based on the compilation methodology
Strengths
- Report covers a specific two-year period (1971-1972)
- Data sourced from multiple channels including property visits and company reports
- Geographic scope includes four distinct mining districts in Yukon
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a historical report
Provenance
- Source
- Northern Economic Development Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
- Collection Method
- Information obtained from property visits, communication with company personnel, technical reports, trade journals, and Mining Recorder reports
- Time Range
- 1971-1972
- Geography
- Yukon, specifically Dawson, Mayo, Watson Lake, and Whitehorse Mining Districts