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MDRU Yukon gold project (details)
- Establishing the mechanisms responsible for gold mineralization
- Distribution and significance of gold types
- Defining geographically coherent signatures of gold origin
- Implications for future exploration
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| Contact: Rob Lowther
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White Channel Gravels (WCG), Dawson District, Yukon
- Increasing knowledge of large scale placer formation and evolution
- Improved modelling of auriferous gravel deposition
- Implications on exploration criteria for locating new resources
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| Contact: Rob Lowther
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Flume tank modelling of heavy mineral transport
- Investigating heavy mineral transport within braided river systems
- Distribution of heavy mineral deposition
- Implications on the future exploration of sedimentary depositional environments
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| Contact: Dr. Rob Chapman |
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Investigating the origin of gold in the Klondike placers
- Characterisation of both lode and placer gold samples from across the Klondike district
- Systematic survey of mineral inclusions to establish specific microchemical signatures for different gold types
- Spatial and temporal evolution to reveal distinct mineralization systems responsible for the Klondike placer gold
- Indentifying potential exploration targets
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