In this project, geoscientific documents from the BC Geological Survey’s Property File were scanned and used to make available additional geological information pertaining to Geoscience BC’s QUEST areas. Property File is now an online database accessible at http://propertyfile.gov.bc.ca/; the original hard-copy archive contains an estimated 100 000 geoscientific documents from the last 150 years of BC’s […]
The QUEST geophysical survey region contains about 650 MINFILE occurrences and 2,484 ARIS Assessment Reports. MINFILE occurrence descriptions in the QUEST area are several years out of date – last updates range from 1989 to 1996. Staking activity resulted in increased Assessment Reports that will enhance or add new mineral occurrences. The QUEST geophysical survey […]
The Mira Geoscience Advanced Geophysical Interpretation Centre has completed 3D inversion modelling, integration, and visualization of airborne gravity, magnetic, and electromagnetic data for the QUEST project area, BC, Canada. This was undertaken for Geoscience BC as follow-up analysis of QUEST project geoscience data. The objective of this work is to provide useful 3D physical property […]
The QUEST-West Project and Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation areas in central British Columbia have high potential for discovery of additional mineral resources. Previously, drift exploration studies have been conducted in region to assist the mineral industry in locating new prospects where traditional exploration techniques have been hindered by the thick cover of glacial sediment that […]
Significant resources of unconventional gas exist in British Columbia, particularly in rocks generally referred to as gas shales. Rapid growth of the unconventional gas industry in general, and in BC in particular, has not been paralleled with increased understanding of the geological processes that determine gas in place capacity, methods for quantifying gas in place […]
The Triassic Nicola Group and its northern continuation the Takla Group compose most of the Quesnel oceanic island arc terrane, and host the majority of the known alkalic porphyry Cu-Au deposits in British Columbia. Despite their importance as metallotect, the Triassic arc sequences had not extensively been studied in the context of regional metallogeny. This […]
The Late Triassic Red Chris porphyry Cu-Au prospect in northern British Columbia hosted in supracrustal rocks of the Mesozoic Stikine Terrane represents an important emerging mineral exploration property in northern British Columbia. We are undertaking a collaborative MDRU-Imperial Metals-Geoscience BC project to examine what we consider to be the preserved upper parts of an alkalic […]
This project focused on geological mapping and compilation of the 1:50,000 Deer Park map sheet 082E/08, located within the Christina Range of southern British Columbia, mainly as a base for evaluating the potential for Tertiary-age precious metal mineralization as well as base metal mineralization. The project included approximately 40 days of field mapping, concentrated in […]
The British Columbia portion of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) is far less developed than the Alberta portion. In the past this area has experienced tremendous growth, particularly in natural-gas exploration. Despite this fact many parts of northeastern British Columbia remain significantly under explored due to difficulties in accessibility and a lack of available […]
The compositions and shapes of placer gold grains, and the nature of microscopic mineral inclusions contained within them, can provide insights into the styles, and in some cases the precise locations, of lode sources from which the gold was derived. Such information therefore represents a valuable and relatively low-cost tool for guiding lode gold exploration […]