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BC mineral projects NI 43-101 reports searchable by location North of 60 Mining News – July 1, 2022
Click on the map to see Geoscience BC Earth Science Viewer with BC NI 43-101 reports searchable by location.
Geoscience BC June 28 announced that data for hundreds more mineral exploration and development reports in British Columbia can now be searched by location for the first time.
National Instrument 43-101 technical reports contain comprehensive geoscience data on prospective mineral properties and are available from the Canadian Securities Administrators' SEDAR website. The inability to search these technical reports by location, however, makes it challenging to find data related to a specific project or area.
Early last year, Geoscience BC published a report and data from a Purple Rock Inc. project that made it possible to search NI 43-101 reports for BC projects from 2004 to 2019 by location. Now a new project has added reports from 2019 to 2021, including some previously missing data and merged data from both projects into one dataset.
In total, 1,262 NI 43-101 reports relating to mineral exploration and development in BC can now be searched by location. In addition, the two projects have now added or updated 4,376 mineral occurrences to the BC Geological Survey's MINFILE database.
"These projects make it easy to access data that would otherwise be extremely difficult and time consuming to access," said Christa Pellett, vice president, minerals at Geoscience BC. "It's a great way for the mineral exploration and development sector, governments, Indigenous groups and communities to access key geoscience information from throughout British Columbia"
The geolocated NI 43-101 reports can be accessed via Geoscience BC's Earth Science Viewer, the Geoscience BC website and on the BC Geological Survey's MapPlace2.
Over his more than 16 years of covering mining and mineral exploration, Shane has become renowned for his ability to report on the sector in a way that is technically sound enough to inform industry insiders while being easy to understand by a wider audience.
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