The Brewery Creek gold mine is a bulk tonnage, heap leach operation located 57 km east of Dawson City, Yukon. Gold mineralization is hosted by intrusions of the mid-Cretaceous Tombstone Plutonic Suite and Silurian to Carboniferous clastic metasedimentary rocks. The dataset describes the deposit's structural setting, including faulting, intrusion phases, and the Reserve trend mineralization zone.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between gold mineralization and specific intrusion phases (e.g., raft monzonite, feldspar porphyry) based on the described rock types.
- Study structural controls on mineralization based on the described faulting and folding within the Steel Formation and Earn Group.
- Model the geometry of the Reserve trend mineralization zone based on its described west-northwest trend and moderate south dip.
- Investigate post-emplacement vertical movement along the Reserve trend based on lithological relationships described.
Strengths
- Provides specific resource figures: 13.3 Mt @ 1.44 g/t Au.
- Includes precise geographic location: 57 km east of Dawson City, Yukon.
- Describes detailed geological context: five intrusion phases and specific sedimentary rock formations.
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 geographic bias inherent to open_canada.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Yukon | Gouvernement du Yukon
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 16:04:20.678511; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Brewery Creek gold mine, central Yukon, Canada