Grew Creek epithermal gold-silver deposit, Tintina Trench, Yukon, 105 K/2

The Grew Creek epithermal gold-silver deposit in southeast Yukon (MINFILE 105 K 009) is hosted by Eocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks deposited in a pull-apart basin within the Tintina Fault Zone. Flow rhyolites forming a dome in the Tarn Zone area, 1.5 km east of Grew Creek, pass westward into a succession of rhyolitic ignimbrites and air fall tuffs, exposed along Grew Creek and in the Main Zone, 500 m west of Grew Creek. These rhyolitic rocks are faulted against fluvial sediments to the north, along the W-E Fault, and basaltic rocks to the west. In the Main Zone, the volcanics, sediments, and the W-E Fault all dip steeply to the north. The gold-silver mineralization forms an elongate tabular zone within the rhyolitic tuffs. The zone strikes parallel to the W-E Fault and dips vertically or steeply to the north. The eastern end of the mineralized zone is defined by a decrease in grade, whereas the western end is faulted off against the basaltic rocks. Within the zone, stockwork veins and hydrothermal breccias contain assemblages which include quartz, adularia, carbonates, quartz peudomorphous after calcite, pyrite, marcasite, and traces of arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, acanthite,…

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Government of Yukon

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2026-08-26