Yukon's mineral industry activities for 1978 are reviewed by the Geology Section of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. The report includes descriptions of work on mineral claims by individuals and companies and summaries of operating mines. Information was largely sourced from geological, geochemical, and geophysical assessment reports accepted for credit.
Use Cases
- Analyze lode mining and exploration activities based on descriptions of work on mineral claims.
- Review coal mining and exploration operations based on operating summaries.
- Study geological assessment reports accepted for credit by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.
- Identify mineral exploration companies and individual claim holders active in Yukon in 1978.
Strengths
- Report is structured into distinct sections for lode mining and coal mining activities.
- Includes a list of technical reports, both confidential and available for inspection.
- Information is sourced from official assessment reports accepted by a government department.
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 single-year report from 1978.
Provenance
- Source
- Geology Section, Yukon, Northern Affairs Program, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.
- Collection Method
- Information obtained largely from geological, geochemical and geophysical assessment reports accepted for credit.
- Time Range
- 1978
- Geography
- Yukon