Government of Yukon

In and around the early 1900s, the Government of Canada used Crown grants to issue interests in land. If a Crown grant includes rights to mines and minerals, including quartz, in the location of the grant, quartz claims cannot be staked over the location of that Crown grant. If the Crown grant...

Yukon Geological Survey's current field project application

The field plots were used to help during the photo interpretation process. The temporary plots provided essential information to interpreters to relate photo observed attributes with field measurements. The field work for the inventory was carried out during the winter of 2004/2005 with the...

This dataset divides Yukon into 9 tourism regions which are used to track wilderness tourism statistics. Note that the Yukon Vacation Planner divides Yukon into 8 similar tourism regions with somewhat different boundaries. Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon . Discover more...

The field work for the inventory was carried out during the winter of 2004/2005 with the project delivered by the contractor in October 2005. Delineation was based on 1:10,000 black and white photography acquired by the City of Whitehorse in 2001. Mapping and DTM were available for this project...

Historic placer data that has been converted to digital format from maps in the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation (YCGC) and other archives

This application was created to assist Selkirk First Nation in identifying land use within their traditional territory as well as on their settlement lands. It provides a general overview of current land interests within agriculture, forestry, lands and mining.

Interactive application overview of the Gunnar Nilsson and Mickey Lammers Research Forest, located just north of Whitehorse, Yukon.

This data set was created to give a general representation of Yukon's water features at 1:2,000,000 scale. The original source of this data is unknown. Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon . Discover more digital map data and interactive maps from Yukon's digital map data...

Fire regions are the largest management unit where wildland fire resources are allocated and deployed. They can be further subdivided into fire districts. Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon . Discover more digital map data and interactive maps from Yukon's digital map data...

Permafrost probability mapping for southern Yukon and northern British Columbia

View renewable energy information on the GeoYukon interactive map viewer

Grouping can include up to a maximum of 750 quartz claims. All quartz claims must be contiguous, i.e. they must be adjoining. Any solitary quartz claims that do not share at least one boundary with the quartz claims to be grouped cannot be included in the grouping. Distributed from GeoYukon by...

Under the Yukon Waters Act, the Yukon Water Board issues water use licences for the use of water and/or the deposit of waste to water. To see the applications, and their reports, please visit Waterline, our online registry at https://www.yukonwaterboard.ca/ . Distributed from GeoYukon by the...

Major hard rock mining project in Yukon requires a detailed environmental and socio-economic assessment and various regulatory approvals. These approvals include, but are not limited to a Water Licence and a Quartz Mining Licence. A project must go through two distinct stages before mining...

This application outlines suitable areas for finding and harvesting Christmas trees in and around the City of Whitehorse.

Beaufort Sea area as per Accord on Oil and Gas Revenue Sharing and Resource Management signed in 1993 between the Government of Canada and the Government of Yukon.

The Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR) Library owns over 100,000 aerial photographs of the Yukon. You can photocopy or scan (600x600 dpi) aerial photographs in the library. If you wish to scan aerial photos, please bring a new, unformatted USB flash drive. Photocopies are limited to 25 per client,...

Forest resource roads (FRR) are actively used for accessing forest resources. FRRs are tracked and managed in a road management database. These roads do not represent a complete road network, they should be viewed in conjunction with the Roads -50k - Canvec dataset. Many FRRs are gated with...

The Yukon government amended the Quartz Mining Act and the Placer Mining Actin December 2013, to establish the authority to designate areas where government notification of Class 1 exploration activities is required. Before these amendments to the mining acts and regulation came into effect,...