Nfld/Lab Geological Survey makes historic data available

The Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador is pleased to provide its mineral exploration clients with an update on a recently completed technical review of its collection of historic exploration files. This collection includes non-confidential technical material (informally known to current users as ‘p-files’) donated to the Department of Natural Resources. These reports are currently housed at the Geological Survey, in hard copy format only.

Following the review, a selection of these archived files has been scanned, and is now available as online Geofiles. For user convenience, a linked list of these new geofiles is available in the  http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/investments/investments.html. Explore Newfoundland and Labrador area of the website under Search our Industry Geodata Collection.

These new Geofiles include information from regional, grass-roots surveys, most of which were completed in the period 1980-1990, and not previously reported upon in submitted assessment reports. The information is pertinent to exploration for a variety of commodities, most notably gold.

 For further information on the Geofiles collections, please contact: cindysaunders@gov.nl.ca