GEM: Logic Model

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Geo-Mapping for Energy & Minerals (GEM)

Geo-Mapping for Energy & Minerals (GEM)

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Improving Geological Mapping for Informed Resource Exploration and Development

Long Term Outcomes

Risk Assessment

Strategic risk: Inability to obtain leveraged resources through essential partnerships Mitigation: Co-planning and staged delivery with partners and funding agencies

Environmental Risk: Global downturn in exploration; Change in government priorities; Lack of expertise Mitigation: Balance of immediate and long-term impacts; Fully utilize National Innovation System and provincial/territorial expertise

Increased economic prosperity of northern Canada through long term private sector investment in resource development.

Intermediate Outcomes

New resource discoveries are determined to be of economic interest and environmentally viable for development.

Immediate Outcomes

  • Increased private sector exploration effectiveness and success rates in northern Canada lead to discovery of new significant mineral and energy plays
  • Exploration sector has access to enlarged pool of geoscience HQP
  • Community decisions for resource development are informed by new GEM data and knowledge

Advisory Group of Northerners advise on how Northerners can benefit from GEM and subsequent private sector activity.



Performance Indicators

Immediate outcomes:

  • GEM activities and outputs contribute to sustained and/or increased exploration expenditures
  • industry modifies exploration strategies based on GEM activities and outputs
  • community decisions regarding resource development are informed by GEM activities and outputs

Intermediate Outcomes:

  • GEM activities and outputs contribute to new resource discoveries
  • GEM contributes to the local creation and retention of socio-economic benefits in northern Canada
  • community engagement regarding resource development is informed by GEM activities and outputs



 

Outputs

  • Geoscience training and mentoring opportunities for students, professionals, northerners

Geoscience

  • Atlases derived from digital geoscience databases of the North
  • Improved data coordination methods, protocols and access
  • Improved resource potential evaluation methodologies
  • New framework geoscience maps, databases, and publications to stimulate exploration
  • New syntheses and concepts to identify new exploration opportunities.
  • New methods to improve exploration effectiveness
  • Holistic basin assessments for Energy Resources in Northern Canada

Community Engagement

  • Community-level information sessions and engagement

Activities

  • Mentor the next generation of geoscientists

Geoscience

  • Geophysical surveys and geological mapping targeted by RPM*
  • Specialised geoscience that augments territorial and provincial geoscience to facilitate energy and mineral exploration
  • Studies that help elucidate energy and mineral resource potential, in partnership with Territories and stakeholders
  • Data integration, database construction and access
  • RPM = remote predictive mapping

Community Engagement

  • Engage communities in understanding GEM activities and land-use issues related to a resource-based economy