Geoscience BC project puts more of BC’s public minerals geoscience data on the map January 19, 2021
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Geoscience BC project has extracted public geoscience and mineral deposit data from technical reports and made it more readily accessible, searchable, and locatable.
Although freely available to the public, the geoscience information recorded by mineral exploration and mining companies in National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) technical reports submitted to the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) are not easily connected to a point on a map.
Previously, it was time-consuming and difficult to locate and integrate this valuable data with other geoscience data.
Results of a new Geoscience BC project extracted and updated 2,763 MINFILE occurrences from data contained within 996 NI 43-101 reports, and added coordinates for each report. Reports’ locations and their relation to geology and mineral exploration projects can now be easily s