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Events
Keep an eye on this page for information on future events hosted or attended by the BC Geological Survey.
New annual publications
New releases
Open File 2022-02: Turtle Lake area geology (NTS 104M/16)
GeoFile 2022-08: LA-ICP-MS U-Pb data files, detrital zircon geochronology, and geochemistry of the Stuhini and Hazelton groups, Scottie gold mine area, northwestern British Columbia
GeoFile 2020-11: British Columbia Geological Survey mineral deposit profiles, 1995 to 2012; updated with new profiles for VMS, porphyry, and mafic-ultramafic deposits
Open File 2022-03: Bedrock Geology, Stump Lake - Salmon River (parts of NTS 82L/05 and 92I/08)
GeoFile 2022-09: In situ zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf, δ18O, and trace elements from intrusive units in northern Hogem batholith, Quesnel terrane, north-central British Columbia
GeoFile 2022-10: Heavy mineral and geochemical data from detailed stream-sediment, stream-water, and moss-mat sampling in northwestern British Columbia
Information Circular 2022-05: The Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia.
GeoFile 2022-11: Volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits in British Columbia: A review
GeoFile 2022-12: Igneous lithogeochemistry data for the Dease Lake, Kitsault River, Galore Creek, Telegraph Creek, Foremore, and other areas in northwestern British Columbia
Geoscience Map 2022-01: Bedrock geology of the Dease Lake area
GeoFile 2022-13: Geochronologic data from the Kitsault River area, northwest British Columbia
Database updates
Digital Geoscience Data
The Digital Geoscience Data page is available for current versions of our regularly updated datasets.
Assessment report-sourced surface sediment geochemical database
Development and initial data release from the Interior Plateau. British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, British Columbia Geological Survey GeoFile 2019-04, 9p., version 2020-05-15. Also available on MapPlace in the Assessment Report (ARIS) layer.
Property File
Property File has grown to more than 82,800 items, with recent additions from private collections and public release of the George Cross Newsletter. The MINFILE bibliography now links more than 9500 MINFILE records directly to Property File (EMPR PFD entries in Bibliography).
MapPlace
A Bedrock Map Index layer is available on MapPlace in the Geology folder. The layer displays footprints for most BCGS and GBC bedrock maps; the maptip provides a link to publication details and downloads. MapPlace now also has 1:50,000-scale NTS and 1:20,000-scale TRIM hydrographic features, road networks, and contours in the Base Maps folder.
Assessment report-sourced surface sediment geochemical (ARSSG) data are available on MapPlace as two layers. One layer shows all samples, the other shows the reports that have been digitized. Both have maptips that link to the ARSSG website where all result details can be viewed and report-specific kml downloads are available. The layers are in the ARIS – Digitized Data group under the Mineral Inventory Folder.
A new layer on MapPlace presents data from a Geoscience BC Project: Georeferencing and Data Capture of National Instrument 43-101 Reports in British Columbia: The project examined publicly available information about British Columbian minerals projects submitted to the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) between August 2004 and October 2019 in National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) technical reports to identify and provide spatial information. Information contained in the 43-101 reports was used to update MINFILE occurrences. The spatial layer on MapPlace provides the location of the reports.
Project information and publication release: http://www.geosciencebc.com/projects/2018-029
Assessment Report digital data submission
Please submit any digital data files (spreadsheets, databases, maps, grids, etc.) used or created in relation to the work described in the technical assessment report. Data can be uploaded through the ARIS Data Submission page, submitted by CD/DVD/USB when a report is filed, or e-mailed to ARIS.digital@gov.bc.ca. Reports themselves must be submitted to Mineral.Titles@gov.bc.ca. Archives of previous assessment report data are accepted and encouraged for submission. Types of data to be submitted include:
- Geochemical data: sample location information, sample descriptions/notes, analytical certificates (e.g. .csv, .xlsx, .accdb)
- Geological data: station location information, station descriptions/notes, structural measurements, mapping polygons and features (e.g. .csv, .xlsx, .shp)
- Drilling data: collar location information, azimuth/dip, depth, downhole orientation surveys, core logs, sample intervals, geotechnical measurements, analytical certificates (e.g. .csv, .xlsx, .accdb)
- Geophysical data (ground and airborne): raw data, processed data (e.g. .gdb, .xyz, .csv, .grd)
- Imagery data: LiDAR, orthophotos, DEMs, ASTER (e.g. .tif, .dem, other raw data files)
- GIS Products
- Any other raw or processed digital files used in the creation of the report
The British Columbia Geological Survey (BCGS) makes these data available for download alongside PDF files through ARIS once the confidentiality period ends. Availability of digital data enables future users to more efficiently build upon work completed in previous exploration and development programs.
Peer-reviewed journals, volume publications and contributions to partner publications, 2021
Alberts, D., Gehrels, G., and Nelson, J.L., 2021. U-Pb and Hf analyses of detrital zircons from Paleozoic and Cretaceous strata on Vancouver Island, British Columbia: Constraints on the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of southern Wrangellia. Lithosphere, <https://doi.org/10.2113/2021/7866944>
Colpron, M., and Nelson, J.L., 2021. Northern Cordillera: Canada and Alaska. In: Elias, S., and Alderton, D., (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology, Second Edition. Academic Press, pp. 93-106.
George, S.W.M., Nelson, J.L., Alberts, D., Greig, C.J., and Gehrels, G.E., 2021. Triassic-Jurassic accretionary history and tectonic origin of Stikinia from U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope analysis, British Columbia. Tectonics, 40. <https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006505>
Haugaard, R., Waterton, P., Ootes, L., Pearson, D.G., Yan Luo, Y., and Konhauser, K., 2021. Detrital chromites reveal Slave craton’s missing komatiite. Geology, 49, <https://doi.org/10.1130/G48840.1>
H ickin, A.S., Lian, O.B., Telka, A., Levson, V.M., and Geertsema, M., 2021. Geomorphic and ecological age constraints for paraglacial to non-glacial transition in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 268, 107002. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107002>
Hunter, R.C., Lafrance, B., Heaman, L.M., and Thomas, D., 2021. Long-lived deformation history recorded along the Precambrian Thelon and Judge Sissons faults, northeastern Thelon Basin, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 58, 433-457. <https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2020-0108>
Lee, R.G., Plouffe, A., Ferbey, T., Hart, C.J.R., Hollings, P., and Gleeson, S.A., 2021. Recognizing porphyry copper potential from till zircon composition: A case study from the Highland Valley porphyry district, south-central British Columbia. Economic Geology, 116, 1035-1045. <https://doi:10.5382/econgeo.4808>
Milidragovic, D., Nixon, G.T., Scoates, J.S., Nott, J.A., and Spence, D.W., 2021. Redox-controlled chalcophile element geochemistry of the Polaris Alaskan-type ultramafi c complex, British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian Mineralogist, 59, 1627-1660. <https://doi.org/10.3749/canmin.2100006>
Mohammadzaheri, A., Sigloch, K., Hosseini, K., and Mihalynuk, M.G., 2021. Subducted lithosphere under South America from multifrequency P wave tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, American Geophysical Union, 126. <https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10503967.2>
Poblete, F., Dupont-Nivet, G., Licht, A., Van Hinsbergen, D.J., Roperch, P., Mihalynuk, M.G., Johnston, S.T., Guillocheau, F., Baby, G., Fluteau, F., and Robin, C., 2021. Towards interactive global paleogeographic maps, new reconstructions at 60, 40 and 20 Ma. Earth-Science Reviews, 214, p.103508. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103508>
Simandl, G.J., Paradis, S., Savard, J., Miller, D., D’Souza, R., Araoka, D., Carlee Akam, C., Hoshino, M., and Kon, Y., 2021. Mineral control on the geochemistry of the Rock Canyon Creek REE-F-Ba deposit, British Columbia, Canada. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis. <https://doi.org/10.1144/geochem2020-010>
Simandl, L., Simandl, G.J., and Paradis, S., 2021. Specialty, critical, battery, magnet and photovoltaic materials: Market facts, projections and implications for exploration and development. Geoscience Canada, 48, 73-91. <https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2021.48.174>
Bouzari, F., Lee, R.G., Hart, C.J.R., and van Straaten, B.I., 2021. Mineralogical and geochemical vectors within advanced argillic-altered rocks of north-central British Columbia (NTS 094E/02, 15, 104I/05). In: Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals, Geoscience BC, Report 2021-01, pp. 91-104.
Jones, G.O., Pearson, D.G., Vezinet, A., Luo, Y., Stern, R.A., Milidragovic, D., and Ootes, L., 2021. Preliminary zircon geochemistry of northern Hogem batholith, Quesnel terrane, north-central British Columbia (parts of NTS 093M/16, 093N/13, 14, 094C/03-06, 094D/01, 08). In: Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals and Mining, Geoscience BC, Report 2021-01, pp. 105-120.
Zagorevski, A., van Staal, C.R., Bédard, J.H., Bogatu, A., Canil, D., Coleman, M., Golding, M., Joyce, N.L., Lawley, C., McGoldrick, S., Mihalynuk, M.G., Milidragovic, D., Parsons, A., and Schiarizza, P., 2021. Overview of Cordilleran oceanic terranes and their signifi cance for the tectonic evolution of the northern Cordillera. In: Ryan, J.J., and Zagorevski, A., (Eds.), Northern Cordillera geology: a synthesis of research from the Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals program, British Columbia and Yukon; Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 610, 2021 pp. 21-65. <https://doi.org/10.4095/326053>
