Government of Yukon data details Yukon's 2019 mineral exploration, development, and production activity. Exploration expenditures were approximately $105 million, development expenditures were estimated at $240 million, and total drilling was 221,596 meters. The dataset tracks project counts, commodity targets, and claim staking trends for the territory.
Use Cases
- Analyze regional mining investment trends based on reported exploration and development expenditures
- Model commodity demand shifts based on the percentage of projects targeting specific minerals like gold
- Assess the impact of grant funding programs based on the mention of Yukon Mineral Exploration Program (YMEP) support for smaller projects
- Track industry consolidation or contraction based on the reported drop in active exploration projects from 155 to 80
Strengths
- Provides specific expenditure figures for exploration ($105M) and development ($240M)
- Includes detailed counts for active projects (80), high-spend projects (36), and total claims in good standing (173,161)
- Reports commodity focus with a concrete percentage: 68% of projects targeted gold
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/temporal bias inherent to open_canada
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Yukon | Gouvernement du Yukon
- Time Range
- 2019
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:48:57.098342; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Yukon, Canada