Industrial Minerals, Gems and Minor Metals in the Yukon

Group 1: Consists of Yukon industrial mineral and minor metals with proven resource which could be developed, given a change in favourble market conditions: Industrial: barite, Minor: antimony, platinum group elements. Group 2: Consists of industrial minerals and minor metals known to occur in the Yukon for which there is a reasonalbe chance of discovering economic deposits: Industrial:asbestos, barite, cassiterite, chromite, clay minerals, feldspathic minerals, fluorspar, garnet, gemstones, graphite, gypsom, limestone, magnesitemanganese oxides, magnetite, mica, nepheline syenite, olivine, peat, phosphate minerals, rare earth elements, silica and quartz, strontium, sulphur, talc, titanium dioxides, zircon. Minor: bismuth, cadmium, chromite, cobalt, niobium, germanium, mercury, molvbdenum, rhenium, selenium, tellurium, tungsten, thorium, vanadium. Group 3: Based on favourable geology, includes industrial minerals and minor metals which, though presently not documented in the Yukon, could be expected to occur in economic deposits: Industrial: abrasives, bentonite, clay minerals, diatomite, gemstone, sillimanite, andalusite, perlite, pumice, tephra, Minor: beryllium, gallium,…

Publisher

Government of Yukon

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3

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-08-26