Assessment of Yukon regional stream sediment catchment basin and geochemical data quality

Stream catchment areas digitized from existing regional stream sediment sample locations are assessed for quality and confidence of sample site location, catchment surface area (used as a proxy for downstream dilution), surface material type, slope angle and slope aspect. Rankings for each of these attributes are combined into quality indices to give an overall impression of reliability for each catchment that can be incorporated into mineral exploration targeting criteria and design of further sampling programs. Data from quality control samples included with each sample batch during a recent re-analysis program are also assessed for some key elements. Standard reference materials included in two separate re-analysis campaigns show slight shifts in bias even though the same analytical method was used in both instances. Some elements, particularly Au, show an unacceptable amount of scatter in repeat analyses of the standard reference materials indicative of a non-homogenous distribution of Au in the materials for the small sample mass (0.5 g) used for analysis. Data precision is assessed using field and blind duplicate analyses for selected elements. The Au analyses show the poorest precisions, with data from Cu giving the best precision and data for As yielding intermediate precisions.

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• Science and Technology
• basin-modeling
• regional-geochemical-survey
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• ygs-import
• ygs-import-20250711
• ygs-publications
• yukon-geological-survey

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Last Updated	October 20, 2025, 02:22 (UTC)
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Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Assessment of Yukon regional stream sediment catchment basin and geochemical data quality
Description A description of the dataset.	Stream catchment areas digitized from existing regional stream sediment sample locations are assessed for quality and confidence of sample site location, catchment surface area (used as a proxy for downstream dilution), surface material type, slope angle and slope aspect. Rankings for each of these attributes are combined into quality indices to give an overall impression of reliability for each catchment that can be incorporated into mineral exploration targeting criteria and design of further sampling programs. Data from quality control samples included with each sample batch during a recent re-analysis program are also assessed for some key elements. Standard reference materials included in two separate re-analysis campaigns show slight shifts in bias even though the same analytical method was used in both instances. Some elements, particularly Au, show an unacceptable amount of scatter in repeat analyses of the standard reference materials indicative of a non-homogenous distribution of Au in the materials for the small sample mass (0.5 g) used for analysis. Data precision is assessed using field and blind duplicate analyses for selected elements. The Au analyses show the poorest precisions, with data from Cu giving the best precision and data for As yielding intermediate precisions.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Science and Technology basin-modeling regional-geochemical-survey rgs stream-sediment-geo... ygs-import ygs-import-20250711 ygs-publications yukon-geological-survey
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2017-06-14
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

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Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	Open Government Licence - Yukon
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/6d000cce-3858-436c-81bc-3f3745b68d79
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Government of Yukon | Gouvernement du Yukon
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	Yukon Geological Survey
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	[email protected]
Author Author of the dataset.
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

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Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	None
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Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

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Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

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Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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