The Mineral Potential Project is an initiative that provides predictions of resource abundance in the province and has been described by Kilby (1995). Ian this project, resource assessment is carried out on specified tracts of land, referred to as mineral assessment tracts. These tracts are generalizations of contiguous geological tracts that share a common tectonic history and metallogeny and ...

Abstract Greenland has a long mining and mineral exploration history offers interesting possibilities for investors. There is still optimism in the business, but successful examples are surprisingly few new millennium. Based on numerous tables compiling information companies, periods, targets, licenses, costs, this paper gives description of past present activities, companies involved, their ma...

Renewable energy exploration and development is currently enjoying new interest as the nation seeks to lessen its dependence on foreign oil sources. Geothermal energy is competitive in areas where high heat flow and crustal water circulation combine to provide a readily accessible resource. Nevada in particular has abundant potential for geothermal energy development. The effort at present with...

Drift compositional studies were initiated at the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in the mid-1960's in projects that drew heavily on the technology and approaches developed in Fennoscandia over the previous century. As this research progressed and expanded in the 1970's, its Fennoscandian character diminished and, like the geochemical exploration research program that it closely paralleled, d...

The goal of exploration geophysics is to infer the nature of buried structure and, in particular, generate drill targets that lead to a mineral deposit discovery or reserve delineation. As a profession, we aim to turn geophysical data into geological information. Most geophysical techniques enable inferences to be made from airborne, ground-based or bore-hole data through a deterministic proces...

In the last ten years, the use of gamma-ray spectrometry for geological mapping and mineral exploration has shown considerable growth. With this growth, standardized procedures have been developed for the calibration and processing of the airborne measurements so that they will be independent of survey parameters. This paper describes some of the new developments to convert airborne data to gro...

The Bonaparte project is a multi-year bedrock mapping program initiated by the British Columbia Geological Survey during the 2000 field season. The project is focused on Mesozoic arc volcanic and plutonic rocks of the Quesnel Terrane in the northeastern part of the Bonaparte Lake (92P) map sheet (Figure 1). This area encompasses a northwest-trending belt of high mineral potential that includes ...

Introduction: Determination of mineral composition of the lunar surface is fundamental for understanding the origin and geologic evolution of the Moon. Such compositional information can be used to examine the magma ocean model of lunar crust formation and to investigate lunar crustal structure, basaltic volcanism, crater/basin structure and ejecta emplacement, as well as lunar soil mixing mech...