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Events
British Columbia Geological Survey geoscientists will be presenting talks and posters at the annual Mineral Exploration Roundup Conference, January 18-22. Please visit our virtual booth to download recent publications and chat with Survey staff.
In addition, BCGS geoscientists will be presenting nine posters, all day from Monday January 18 to Friday January 22. Authors will be available to discuss their posters on Wednesday January 20, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. Posters are available to view and download from our website.
Regional Overviews Session, Monday January 18
10:15
Gordon Clarke
Mineral exploration and mining in British Columbia, 2020
New Geoscience Session, Monday January 18
1:50 pm
Bram van Straaten
Why is The Golden Triangle so metal rich? A new model
2:20 pm
Luke Ootes
Northern Hogem batholith deconstructed
Commodities and Financial Markets Session, Tuesday January 19
2:24 pm
George Simandl
Battery, magnet, and photovoltaic materials: Mineral resources, and markets: Implications for current and future opportunities for exploration and development
Additions to the Geoscience Toolbox Session, Friday January 22
1:50 pm
Alexei Rukhlov
Atmospheric mercury vapour haloes uncover ore deposits and fault structures
2:35 pm
Ray Lett
Using soil gas to identify bedrock mineralization and geological faults beneath glacial deposits
New annual publications
New releases
GeoFile 2021-01: Exploration and mining in British Columbia, 2020
GeoFile 2021-02: Exploration and mining highlights, Northwest Region, 2020
GeoFile 2021-03: Exploration and mining highlights, North Central and Northeast regions, 2020
GeoFile 2021-04: Exploration and mining highlights, Southwest and South Central Regions, 2020
GeoFile 2021-05: Exploration and mining highlights, Southeast Region, 2020
GeoFile 2021-06: Assessment report summary: Expenditures and activities 2019
GeoFile 2021-07: Cu-PGE vs Cr-PGE mineralization in Alaskan-type mafic-ultramafic intrusions
GeoFile 2021-08: Yttrium-rich garnet: a source of HREE?
GeoFile 2021-09: Digital transformation of geoscience to enable analytics in mineral exploration
GeoFile 2020-01: Geochronologic and geochemical data from northern Hogem batholith and its surroundings, north-central British Columbia
GeoFile 2020-13: Supplementary data for near-surface mercury vapour haloes in air above ore deposits and faults on Vancouver Island: Insights into buried materials in real-time?
Geoscience Map 2020-01: Southern Nicola Arc Geology
NTS 92H/7NE, 8NW, 9W, 10E, 15E, 16W, 92I/1SW, 2SE
GeoFile 2020-12: Geochronologic data from samples collected near Pothole Lake and Pennask Mountain (NTS 92H/15, 16) as part of the Southern Nicola Arc Project
GeoFile 2020-11: British Columbia Geological Survey mineral deposit profiles, 1995 to 2012
GeoFile 2020-10: The British Columbia Geological Survey geochronologic database: Preliminary release of ages
Database updates
Digital Geoscience Data
The Digital Geoscience Data page is available for current versions of our regularly updated datasets.
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-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).
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, 2020
Clennett, E. J., Sigloch, K., Mihalynuk,M. G., Seton, M., Henderson, M. A., Hosseini, K., et al. (2020). Aquantitative tomotectonic plate reconstruction of western North America and the eastern Pacific basin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,20, e2020GC009117. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009117
Nixon, G.T., Scheel, J.E., Scoates, J.S., Friedman, R.M., Wall, C.J., Gabites, J., and Jackson-Brown, S., 2020. Syn-accretionary multistage assembly of an Early Jurassic Alaskan-type intrusion in the Canadian Cordillera: U–Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Turnagain ultramafic–mafic intrusive complex, Yukon–Tanana terrane. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2020, Vol. 57, No. 5: pp. 575-600. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2019-0121
Ootes, L., Sandeman, H., Cousens, B.L., Lou, Y., Pearson, D.G., and Jackson, V.A., 2020. Pyroxenitic magma conduits (ca. 1.86 Ga) in Wopmay orogen and slave craton: Petrogenetic constraints from whole rock and mineral chemistry. Lithos, v. 354-355, 105220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105220
Paradis, S., Hnatyshin, D., Simandl, G.J., and Creaser, R.A., 2020. Re-Os pyrite geochronology of the Yellowhead-type mineralization, Pend Oreille mine, Kootenay arc, Metaline district, Washington. Economic Geology, https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4720
Bouzari, F., Lee, R.G., Hart, C.J.R., and van Straaten, B.I., 2020. Porphyry vectoring within advanced argillic-altered rocks of British Columbia. In: Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2019: Minerals, Geoscience BC Report 2020–01, pp. 115–130.
Castonguay, S., Ootes, L., Devine, F., and Friedman, R., 2020. Superimposed Late Cretaceous and earliest Eocene gold mineralization and deformation events along the Llewellyn-Tally Ho deformation corridor in northwest British Columbia and southern Yukon. In: Mercier-Langevin, P., Lawley, C.J.M., and Castonguay, S., (Eds.), Targeted Geoscience Initiative 5: Contributions to the Understanding of Canadian Gold Systems. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 8712, pp. 223–236. https://doi.org/10.4095/326039
Cutts, J.A., Dipple, G.M., Hart, C., and Milidragovic, D., 2020. Assessment of carbon mineralization potential of British Columbia by quantifying the response of physical properties to the alteration of ultramafic rocks. Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2019: Minerals, Geoscience BC, Report 2020-01, p. 137-144.
Zagorevski, A., van Staal, C. R., Bédard, J. H., Bogatu, A., Canil, D., Coleman, M., Golding, M., Joyce, N., Lawley, C., McGoldrick, S., Mihalynuk, M., Milidragovic, D., Parsons, A., and Schiarizza, P., 2020. Paper 1: Overview of Cordilleran oceanic terranes and their significance for the tectonic evolution of the northern Cordillera. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 610, in press.
