Analysis of improved government geological map information for mineral exploration: incorporating efficiency, productivity, effectiveness, and risk considerations

Bernknopf, R L; Wein, A M; St-Onge, M R; Lucas, S B

doi:10.4095/223861

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“…A more recent study by Bernknopf et al (2007) incorporated efficiency, productivity, effectiveness and risk considerations of the exploration industry users to analyse the value of government geological map information for mineral exploration. Their analysis was founded on exploration in the Flin Flon Belt of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the South Baffin Island area of Nunavut, a mature mining district and a frontier region, respectively, and both mapped by the GSC.…”

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NATMAP - Canada's National Geoscience Mapping Program: 1991-2002

Robertson

2017

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The National Geoscience Mapping Program (NATMAP) was launched by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1991 in response to a concern of the country's mineral exploration community that the level of geological mapping by Canada's federal and provincial/territorial surveys was no longer adequate to assist companies in new exploration ventures into more remote or poorly understood regions. The principles and practices of the NATMAP Program were developed in GSC-led deliberations with its counterpart surveys and industry representatives. For the first time, major geological mapping projects would be formally coordinated and collaborated studies by the public geosciences agencies, utilizing their resident and relevant expertise and funds to produce a new era of geological maps incorporating data from several geosciences disciplines and in digital formats. The thirteen NATMAP projects undertaken over the Program's thirteen-year span were proposed, reviewed, funded and renewed by management and advisory panels according to a series of criteria for project suitability and operations - a process that has since become the standard for GSC project management. The success of NATMAP undoubtedly lies in the important advances in Canada's geosciences database and integrated knowledge. The scientific results of the individual NATMAP projects, covering one million km2 across nine provinces and three territories, have been published and communicated elsewhere in well over 500 maps and 1500 reports. This compilation provides information for each project's rationale, component studies and methodologies, some high-level findings and their implications, plus impacts attributable to acceptance of the results by the resource exploration and public policy sectors, perhaps a decade or more later. In general terms, NATMAP accomplished its original goal of providing the new geoscience required by the private sector to refine its exploration strategies in areas of previous interest and to advance with some confidence into regions that were formerly considered too uncertain because of the poor quality of the extant geological knowledge. Virtually all of the projects targeted at this industry have seen new claims, staking and detailed surveys and exploration over the newly mapped terranes. In some instances, follow up of geophysical or geochemical anomalies identified during the NATMAP investigations have led to the discovery of potential economic deposits. NATMAP projects over portions of sedimentary basins in western and eastern Canada helped define the 3-dimensional extent of suitable lithologies and structures for oil and gas deposits have seen the immediate drilling of significant numbers of exploratory wells. This latter activity, plus the mineral exploration ventures, have already contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to the Canadian economy. Important results were also achieved in the NATMAP projects that addressed issues of groundwater source recognition and protection, terrain stability and aggregate resource potential, contributing to new, related public policy debates and regulations. It is unlikely that the total contribution of the NATMAP geosciences, in terms of providing the knowledge upon which future resource discoveries will be made, will be compiled or calculated. Nonetheless, the role played by Canada's geological surveys in NATMAP and its successor projects and programs, will continue to support a broad spectrum of issues for which geoscience knowledge is fundamental.

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Section: T the Value Of Geological Mapsmentioning

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NATMAP - Canada's National Geoscience Mapping Program: 1991-2002

Robertson

2017

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“…Geospatial and spatiotemporal public data are integrated into current economic activities that have considerable economic benefits such as transportation route and communication facility planning. Economic models have been developed to estimate the benefits of geospatial data for a wide range of topics in industrial sectors such as agriculture [2][3][4][5], resource extraction [6], environmental hazards [7], wildfire management [8] and maritime shipping [9].…”

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Economic Assessment of the Use Value of Geospatial Information

Bernknopf

Shapiro

2015

IJGI

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Geospatial data inform decision makers. An economic model that involves application of spatial and temporal scientific, technical, and economic data in decision making is described. The value of information (VOI) contained in geospatial data is the difference between the net benefits (in present value terms) of a decision with and without the information. A range of technologies is used to collect and distribute geospatial data. These technical activities are linked to examples that show how the data can be applied in decision making, which is a cultural activity. The economic model for assessing the VOI in geospatial data for decision making is applied to three examples: (1) a retrospective model about environmental regulation of agrochemicals; (2) a prospective model about the impact and mitigation of earthquakes in urban areas; and (3) a prospective model about developing private-public geospatial information for an ecosystem services market. Each example demonstrates the potential value of geospatial information in a decision with uncertain information.

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Correlation, Method of Least Squares, Linear Regression and the General Linear Model

Agterberg

2014

Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics

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Analysis of improved government geological map information for mineral exploration: incorporating efficiency, productivity, effectiveness, and risk considerations

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

NATMAP - Canada's National Geoscience Mapping Program: 1991-2002

NATMAP - Canada's National Geoscience Mapping Program: 1991-2002

Economic Assessment of the Use Value of Geospatial Information

Correlation, Method of Least Squares, Linear Regression and the General Linear Model

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