British Columbia Geological Survey
geologists examining rocks at the Lake zone
(Nee property, Kaizen Discovery Inc.).
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the Survey over the last 150 years and hitherto available only
in hardcopy, now contains over 54,000 items. The Survey
updated the Regional Geochemical Survey database and is cur-
rently modernizing the provincial lithogeochemical database.
The BC Digital Geology compilation map received several
updates, including five maps from northern Vancouver Island.
Development continues on the next generation of MapPlace.
GEOSCIENCE BC
Geoscience BC is a not-for-profit, non-governmental, geo-
science organization established in 2005 with grants from the
provincial government. Geoscience BC is industry-focused,
with a board of directors and technical advisors largely drawn
from industry. It is mandated to promote mineral, oil and gas,
and geothermal exploration in British Columbia by generating
and distributing geoscience data. Open and targeted requests
for proposals generate many of the large geoscience projects,
and work is done by contractors, consultants and other provid-
ers of public geoscience.
Reports released in 2014 that supported mineral explora-
tion included aeromagnetic, surficial geology, and geochemical
data from the
TREK project, which targeted an area of more
than 20,000 square kilometres in the northern Interior Plateau.
Another major release included combined regional geophysical
and geochemical survey data from the Northern Vancouver
Island Project. All reports from Geoscience BC are available to
the public at no charge.
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