Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4: Increasing Deep Exploration Effectiveness

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The Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4 (TGI-4) is a collaborative federal geoscience program that provides industry with the next generation of geoscience knowledge and innovative techniques, which will result in more effective targeting of buried mineral deposits.

Current situation

  • Canada’s reserves of metals have been declining for more than 28 years.
  • Deeper exploration for new resources is required because of the increasing rarity of surface discoveries.

Focus of the TGI-4 program

  • developing a more robust means of measuring whether a geological system may contain deeply buried ore (system fertility) and providing a direction to that ore (exploration vectors), thereby reducing the investment risk and cost
  • developing new and improved geoscience knowledge and techniques to better understand, model and detect Canada’s major mineral systems
  • training and mentoring students to increase the number of highly qualified personnel available to the mineral industry