This project generates new geoscience information for mineral exploration in the highly prospective Toodoggone mineral district in British Columbia’s North Central Region.

Since inception Geoscience BC has worked with the federal and provincial geoscience agencies to add new value to provincial regional geochemical data. In 2016, this included reanalyzing over 5,500 stream sediment samples originally taken between 1977 and 1991 to show how they could indicate undiscovered minerals across British Columbia.

This project compiled a single database containing the results of quality control samples analyzed as part of various Geoscience BC regional geochemical survey (RGS) projects. Easy access to this important information improves the reliability of future analysis of this data.

This project combines till and lake sediment geochemical data collected from across Geoscience BC’s TREK project area and applies statistical analysis techniques and sediment transport modelling methods to identify areas of increased mineral potential in central British Columbia.

This project demonstrated that it is feasible to use microbiome DNA fingerprinting with high-throughput sequencing technologies to identify buried porphyry mineralization, and that this method has the potential to provide more potential indicators than traditional geochemistry.

Machine learning and more traditional techniques were applied to geochemical data for almost 15,000 stream sediment samples from across a large portion of British Columbia were analysed to more-accurately locate mineral deposits.

This project found that the chemical and textural characteristics of zircon minerals in granite rocks that typically host porphyry copper deposits can help identify rocks that formed under ‘copper-friendly’ (fertile) conditions.

This project analyzed the geochemistry of the clay-size fraction (particle less than 0.002 millimeters in size) of archived till samples from the highly prospective TREK area in central BC, generating a valuable new layer of earth science information and demonstrating the benefits of analyzing the clay-size fraction. The work relates to the area of Geoscience […]

Geochemical data from almost 3,000 till samples collected over the TREK area were re-interpreted using advanced data analysis techniques to identify areas likely to host hidden mineral deposits. The work relates to the area of Geoscience BC’s Targeting Resources for Exploration and Knowledge (TREK) series of projects. View TREK project page.

  This project helps to understand how and why known mineral deposits in BC’s Northwest Region are where they are and to assess whether similar deposits might be found in parts of the region’s Skeena Arch, which has more than 220 known mineral occurrences. Part of the study area incorporates data from Geoscience BC’s Search Phase […]