The Wolf property - 1998 update: Volcanogenic massive sulphides hosted by rift-related, alkaline, felsic volcanic rocks, Pelly Mountains, Yukon

The Wolf property is situated within the Pelly Mountains, 90 km south of Ross River, Yukon. The Mississippian felsic volcanic and sedimentary rocks which underlie the Wolf property are part of a belt that occurs within the Pelly-Cassiar platform, a miogeoclinal sequence thought to be part of ancestral North America. Much of the bedrock exposure in the region is along the northeastern edges of southwesterly dipping, imbricate thrust sheets. The felsic volcano-sedimentary sequence on the Wolf property is approximately 900 m thick and bounded by two thrust panels of lower Paleozoic platformal carbonate sequences. Volcanic stratigraphy is characterized by high potassium geochemistry, a variety of pyroclastic grain sizes, and high-energy fragmental and low-viscosity flow textures. The chemistry of the volcanic rocks and their tectono-stratigraphic setting indicates deposition within an intra-continental rift. Volcanogenic sulphide mineralization and exhalative barite occur at four stratigraphic levels within the Wolf property. The Wolf deposit is hosted within a laterally extensive sheet of massive sulphide mineralization at the upper stratigraphic level and has been defined by 30…

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Government of Yukon

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2026-08-26