| In compliance with the Mineral Tenure Act
Regulations, results of mineral exploration programs conducted on mineral claims in
British Columbia are submitted to the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. These
reports, known as Assessment Reports, contain information on geology, geophysics,
geochemistry, drilling, prospecting and physical work. The information is valuable for
mineral exploration, research studies, land use planning and resource management. The
British Columbia Geological Survey manages and maintains a library of over 26,000
mineral Assessment Reports dating from 1947. Reports
can be viewed at provincial government offices or purchased (on
paper; and microfilm for reports approved to March 1999) after the expiration of the
confidential period (at least one year). The
Assessment Report Indexing System (ARIS) was designed to assist the BC Geological Survey in the administration of Assessment Reports and also provides Assessment Report
Index data for clients. Assessment reports are sorted by National
Topographic System (NTS) mapsheet. For each approved, non-confidential assessment
report, the Index includes latitude, longitude, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)
coordinates, claim names, operator, author, type of work report and report year. In
digital format the Index also includes the following information: commodities searched
for, detailed work data, and keywords.
The Assessment Report Index is no longer available in hardcopy format. The digital ARIS
data is organized as a series of flat ASCII files downloadable
from our website. The ARIS data files are free and include a program, called ARISTRAN
(updated in 1999), that converts the data to .dBF format and adds QuikMap
parameters for plotting. The digital files can also be used with a variety of commercial
software programs.
Up until August 1998 all assessment reports were microfilmed and available for viewing at
Ministry and Gold Commissioner offices throughout the province. Since January 1989 all reports have been scanned and
posted as Adobe PDF files. Scanning of the reports received prior to 1989 is ongoing. All reports prior to
1969 have also been scanned.
For further information on ARIS, please refer to one of the
following:
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