Digging Deep – QUEST: 15 years of Attracting Investment and Advancing Mineral Exploration | July 2022

By: Christa Pellett, Vice President, Minerals 2022 marks the 15-year anniversary of the QUEST Project, Geoscience BC’s first major regional, multidisciplinary, multi-partner minerals research program. QUEST introduced a new model for Geoscience BC-supported public geoscience and has had broad and long-reaching effects on geoscience data in the Province of British Columbia. Fifteen years after the […]

Energy Research Improves Sour Gas and Natural Gas Liquids Understanding in BC’s Northeast

Vancouver, BC – July 20, 2022 – Research results published by Geoscience BC provide a new understanding of the distribution and nature of hydrogen sulphide ‘sour gas’ and location of natural gas liquids in British Columbia’s Northeast Region. The multi-year, multi-partner study sought to understand why sour gas only affects some wells in the region’s […]

2022 Geoscience BC Scholarship Program Recipients Awarded

Vancouver, BC – July 19, 2022 – Geoscience BC announces the 2022 recipients of the scholarship program that provides a financial boost to ten post-graduate geoscience students working on projects to advance earth science research in British Columbia. Each student receives a $5,000 scholarship to support them as they conduct their applied geoscience research. The […]

Report Highlights Critical Minerals and Metals Potential in British Columbia’s Northwest

Vancouver, BC – July 12, 2022 – A newly published report sheds light on the potential for undiscovered minerals deposits in the Skeena Arch in British Columbia’s Northwest Region. Although the Skeena Arch – an area roughly between Terrace and Houston – is home to several past and current mines, the geological processes that caused […]

Geoscience BC Quarterly Newsletter | Updates on Geoscience BC membership, research updates and more.

Vancouver – July, 11, 2022 – This quarterly update from Geoscience BC covers the April to June quarter and provides updates on Geoscience BC membership, research updates, the 2022 Geoscience BC Scholarship Program and more. View Quarterly Newsletter About Geoscience BC Geoscience BC generates independent, relevant, public earth science research and data about British Columbia’s […]

Agenda: Geoscience BC Lunchtime Webinar | July 14, 2022

  If you have an interest in critical minerals and metals, carbon capture and storage or cleaner energy (including geothermal, hydrogen and low carbon intensity natural gas) – and the public geoscience required to inform their development in BC – this webinar is for you. Geoscience BC is evolving fast to meet the changing and […]

Volunteering Opportunity: Geoscience BC Minerals Technical Advisory Committee

Vancouver, BC – July 5, 2022 – Geoscience BC is seeking up to four volunteers to join our Minerals Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), a group of experts that advises on our independent, relevant and public minerals related earth science research in British Columbia. Geoscience BC’s TACs are an essential part of our collaborative and innovative […]

Save the date: Geoscience BC Lunchtime Webinar | July 14, 2022

  If you have an interest in critical minerals and metals, carbon capture and storage or cleaner energy (including geothermal, hydrogen and low carbon intensity natural gas) – and the public geoscience required to inform their development in BC – this webinar is for you. Geoscience BC is evolving fast to meet the changing and […]

Mining Geoscience Data to Put It on the Map

Vancouver, BC – June 28, 2022 – Data for hundreds more mineral exploration and development reports in British Columbia can now be searched by location for the first time, thanks to a new Geoscience BC minerals project. National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) technical reports contain comprehensive geoscience information on prospective mineral properties and are available […]

Digging Deep: Adaptation, Net-Zero and Partner Alignment | June 2022

By: Stephanie Killam, Chair of the Board and Gavin C. Dirom, President and CEO   This Digging Deep blog is an adaptation of the Chair and CEO Message in Geoscience BC’s Annual Report 2021-2022, which was published in May 2022. The Annual Report 2021-22 is available online or in limited print quantities upon request. View […]

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