Geo-mapping for Minerals
The minerals component of the Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) program will be delivered via eleven projects.
Chesterfield Gold
Multiple Metals – Cumberland Peninsula
Diamonds – Slave/Churchill Provinces
Multiple Metals – NW Canadian Cordillera
Multiple Metals – Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Multiple Metals – NE Manitoba
Multiple Metals – Melville Peninsula
Multiple Metals – Schefferville and Ungava Bay
Base and Precious Metals – Victoria Island
Multiple Metals – SE Yukon
Geo-mapping Frontiers
These projects are improving our knowledge of Canada’s North through the acquisition and rapid release of new geoscience information for targeted areas with high potential for base metals (copper, nickel, iron, zinc and lead), precious metals (gold, silver, platinum), diamonds, and multiple commodities including rare metals.
In addition, the assembly and dissemination in digital form of existing field and remotely-sensed data, and accompanying analysis of mineral potential will provide an accurate portrayal of the land.
Multidisciplinary teams assembled from across Canada and supported by geophysical and geochemical information from cutting-edge national laboratories, will provide an accurate portrayal of the land that will be disseminated in a form accessible by explorationists and land-use planners at community, territorial/provincial, and federal levels.
Data will be compiled into publicly available databases that will be available in a timely fashion.
Territorial geoscience agencies have been extensively consulted in defining the activities within each project and will be partners in carrying them out.
GEM Program Manager responsible for mineral projects – John Percival