British Columbia Geological Survey
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<strong>British</strong> <strong>Columbia</strong><br />
<strong>Geological</strong> <strong>Survey</strong><br />
Overview & Highlights 2011-2012<br />
Stephen M. Rowins<br />
Chief Geologist<br />
KEG, April 3 rd , 2012
<strong>British</strong> <strong>Columbia</strong><br />
<strong>Geological</strong> <strong>Survey</strong><br />
Who are we<br />
Oldest scientific agency in BC (est. in 1885) responsible<br />
for the systematic inventory, assessment, and archiving<br />
of the complex geology of BC. We produce and house<br />
geoscience information about BC mineral resources and<br />
mineral potential.<br />
Geoscience Partnerships are important<br />
to our success
Ministry of Energy & Mines<br />
Minister<br />
Rich Coleman<br />
Deputy Minister<br />
Steve Carr<br />
Mining and Mineral Resources Division<br />
David Morel, Assistant Deputy Minister<br />
<strong>Geological</strong> <strong>Survey</strong><br />
Steve Rowins<br />
Chief Geologist<br />
Health and Safety<br />
Al Hoffman<br />
Chief inspector of Mines<br />
Mineral Titles &<br />
Policy and Sustainability<br />
A/Director Nathaniel Amann-Blake<br />
A/Chief Gold Commissioner<br />
Ed Colazzi
Cordilleran Geoscience Section (Director pending)<br />
‣ bedrock and surficial mapping<br />
‣ geochemical surveys<br />
‣ targeted mineral deposit studies<br />
‣ partners with other geological surveys/orgs, universities & industry<br />
11 STAFF (new Coal Geologist, new Geochemist, new Sr. Digital Info.)<br />
Resource Information Section (Larry Jones)<br />
‣ public geoscience information on MapPlace<br />
‣ other databases MINFILE, ARIS, digital BCGeologyMap<br />
‣ client training and support<br />
7.5 STAFF (no geophysicist)<br />
Mineral Development Office (Bruce Madu)<br />
‣ Promotes BC’s mineral exploration and mining industries<br />
‣ Vancouver location helps industry liaison<br />
1.5 STAFF<br />
Chief Geologist (Steve Rowins)<br />
2 STAFF (one administrative assistant)
8 New Staff …<br />
TIAN HAN<br />
Snr. Digital Information<br />
Geoscientist, Oct, 2011<br />
STEVE ROWINS<br />
Chief Geologist &<br />
Executive Director,<br />
Dec, 2011<br />
BRUCE MADU<br />
Director MDO,<br />
Sept, 2011<br />
Other New Staff in 2012:<br />
Janet Riddell, Coal Geologist<br />
Fiona Katay, GIS Geologist<br />
Lawrence Aspler, Publication<br />
& Marketing Geologist<br />
Vancouver Admin Assistant<br />
Minimum 12-month terms<br />
ALEXEI RUKHLOV,<br />
Provincial Geochemist,<br />
Jan, 2012<br />
MELANIE MITCHELL,<br />
Admin Assistant,<br />
Feb, 2011
Mineral Development<br />
Office Update (B. Madu)<br />
China Mining 2011<br />
‣ Asia Investment Mission<br />
to China & India in 2011<br />
‣ Presented at NWMA & Roundup<br />
‣ Newly redesigned office this spring<br />
will facilitate client interaction<br />
‣ Busy re-educating other parts of<br />
government on the MDO’s role in<br />
2011-2012
Cordilleran Tectonics Workshop<br />
(Victoria, Feb 25-26, 2012)<br />
Co-sponsored by the<br />
BCGS & the GAC’s Pacific<br />
Section<br />
‣ Organized by BCGS’s JoAnne<br />
Nelson<br />
‣ 100 participants<br />
‣ 28 talks, 24 posters over 2 days<br />
‣ Field trip to South Vancouver<br />
Island (30 participants)
Main printed publications in 2011<br />
(with FLNRO)<br />
(with FLNRO)<br />
Available online, as flash drives & paper<br />
(copies at the BCGS booth)
2-Year Kutcho project funded by:<br />
GSC EDGES program, BCGS, Kutcho Copper<br />
‣ Fieldwork in 2010 & 2011 conducted by 2-<br />
person crew (Paul Schiarizza), based out of<br />
Kutcho Copper Corp’s exploration camp<br />
‣ Detailed maps of the Kutcho Assemblage,<br />
host to the Kutcho Creek Cu-Zn<br />
volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit<br />
See Paul’s talk tomorrow at 1:30PM<br />
“Write-up” Year in 2012
Regional geological setting<br />
‣ 400 sq. kms mapped<br />
‣ Kutcho is eastern part of<br />
King Salmon Allochthon<br />
‣ Bounded to the north by<br />
the oceanic Cache Creek<br />
terrane and to the south<br />
by the Permo-Triassic<br />
Stikine terrane<br />
‣ Allochthon mainly<br />
Jurassic Inklin Fm.
Central map area<br />
Potential for additional VMS discoveries<br />
Only a few minor occurrences of<br />
chalcopyrite-sphalerite currently known.<br />
Significant zones of pyritic quartz-sericite<br />
schist indicate that parts of the area, mainly<br />
in the central and northern divisions, have<br />
potential for future discoveries<br />
Cherty exhalite, west of Kutcho Creek<br />
Pyritic sericite-quartz schist, Josh Creek
3-Year North Coast Mapping<br />
and Mineral Deposits<br />
(J. Nelson & L. Diakow)<br />
Edges Multiple Metals – NW<br />
Canadian Cordillera (<strong>British</strong><br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> and Yukon) Project.<br />
Funding: GSC &<br />
BCGS
Gossan - rusty quartzsericite<br />
schist along Pitt<br />
VMS trend on Pitt Island<br />
“Write-up”<br />
year in 2012<br />
Hard Case showing - a new<br />
volcanogenic massive sulphide<br />
showing found by Cees van Staal,<br />
GSC, & Joel Angen, U of Waterloo
3-year Iskut River EDGES project<br />
Funding: GSC, BCGS, Pacific<br />
Northwest Capital Corp.<br />
‣ Mitch Mihalynuk, Alex Zagorevski<br />
mapped in the Hoodoo Mtn area<br />
in 2011 (Galore Cr. & RR VMS)<br />
‣Many new structural and<br />
geochronological observations<br />
‣ New maps of the Iskut from<br />
north of the Iskut River to south<br />
of the Galore Creek deposit in<br />
the Hoodoo Mountain area.<br />
‣Granduc, Rock & Roll,<br />
Tulsequah all part of the same<br />
VMS event<br />
Mitch’s talk<br />
tomorrow<br />
at 9:30AM<br />
“Write-up Year”
NEW! Geoscience BC QUEST-Northwest<br />
Project in 2011<br />
‣ Airborne magnetics<br />
‣ BCGS Dease Lake<br />
bedrock geological<br />
mapping<br />
Open File 2012-04<br />
released today!<br />
‣ Geochemical survey<br />
new sampling and reanalyses
BCGS Dease Lake<br />
Mapping Project<br />
(J. Logan, L. Diakow, &<br />
D. Moynihan)<br />
‣ Bedrock mapping and mineral<br />
evaluation: 104J/08, /07E<br />
‣ Hotailuh batholith study: intrusive<br />
phases, ages and related<br />
mineralization<br />
‣ Snow Peak pluton: age,<br />
emplacement and molybdenum<br />
mineralization<br />
‣ Triassic Arc: geochemical study
Huey<br />
Part I: Bedrock<br />
mapping 104J/08,<br />
07E<br />
Geoscience BC QUEST-NW<br />
Total Field Airborne<br />
Magnetic data<br />
Tan<br />
Mafic/ultramafic intrusions<br />
Huey Au, Ag, Cu prospect
Hotailuh batholith<br />
(B. van Straaten)<br />
SPS<br />
TSPS<br />
SPS<br />
TCPS<br />
Three Sisters<br />
Plutonic Suite<br />
Texas Creek<br />
Plutonic Suite<br />
Stikine<br />
Plutonic Suite<br />
Geoscience BC QUEST-NW<br />
Total Field Airborne<br />
Magnetic data
Northern Vancouver Island Regional Mapping Project<br />
(G. Nixon)<br />
5 new 1:50 000 scale BCGS Geoscience Maps released in 2011!<br />
Holberg - Winter<br />
Harbour<br />
GM2011-1<br />
Winter<br />
Harbour<br />
Quatsino<br />
Sound<br />
Holberg<br />
Mahatta Creek<br />
GM2011-3<br />
Port<br />
Hardy<br />
Quatsino – Port<br />
McNeill GM2011-2 Port<br />
Quatsino<br />
McNeill<br />
Island Copper<br />
Port Alice<br />
Alice Lake<br />
GM2011-4<br />
Robson<br />
Bight<br />
Nimpkish Lake -<br />
Telegraph Cove<br />
GM2011-5<br />
‣ Geology<br />
‣ Geochronology<br />
‣ Geochemistry<br />
‣ Metamorphism<br />
0 10<br />
20<br />
kilometres<br />
Brooks<br />
Peninsula<br />
Regional mapping (1:50 000)<br />
by the BC <strong>Geological</strong> <strong>Survey</strong><br />
Maps provide a new stratigraphic and intrusive<br />
framework for the early Mesozoic rocks
NEW! TGI-4: Ni-Cu-PGE Sub-project<br />
J. Scoates (UBC), G. Nixon (BCGS) & Doreen Ames (GSC)<br />
BC Component: “Orogenic” Ni-Cu-PGE systems<br />
1. Mafic-ultramafic intrusions in orogenic belts<br />
2. Excludes ophiolites & accreted LIP’s (Wrangellia)<br />
Develop mineral deposit/exploration models for:<br />
I. Giant Mascot (1958-74) – BC’s only Ni mine<br />
II. Turnagain Alaskan-type intrusion – developed<br />
prospect with ~ 750 Mt @ 0.215% Ni & 0.135% Co<br />
(measured + indicated)<br />
Just released: Open File 2012-05: Geology of the Turnagain<br />
ultramafic intrusion, northern BC (G. Nixon et al.)
TGI-4: Specialty (Rare) Metals in <strong>British</strong> <strong>Columbia</strong>, Canada<br />
Geofile 2011-10 (George Simandl)
See Yao<br />
Cui’s talk at<br />
11:30AM<br />
Reports and<br />
Downloads<br />
Resource Information Section<br />
ARIS<br />
MapPlace<br />
Property<br />
File<br />
Metadata<br />
URL<br />
Links<br />
MTO<br />
MINFILE
BCGS Digital Geology Challenge<br />
Tian Han<br />
The BCGeologyMap<br />
initiative<br />
The team: Tian, Yao, JoAnne,<br />
Pat, Paul, Mitch
MINFILE Summary Report<br />
Hot Link to<br />
MapPlace.ca<br />
Reports<br />
available<br />
Hot Links to<br />
ARIS Reports<br />
Hot Links to<br />
Property File
Property File Project<br />
63K Documents<br />
27,760 online<br />
$400K to<br />
index & scan<br />
Donations:<br />
Chevron, Cyprus-Anvil,<br />
Placer Dome, Rimfire...<br />
Tom Schroeter<br />
Mine Plans
Investigate Mineral Tenures with the<br />
Exploration Assistant
Your Provincial <strong>Geological</strong> <strong>Survey</strong><br />
in 2011-2012<br />
Thank you!
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