Ministry of Energy and Mines
Digital Geology Data
Digital Geology and Mineral Resource Assessment
Projection note: Most of the information presented here has been made available in two projections. The BC Albers Standard Projection has been shown to be the best for displaying all of BC. This projection reduces errors associated with GIS calculations of errors and lengths over other standard projections. Some files are available in geographic projection (decimal degrees) which is a very generic projection used in most systems.
All files listed here are also integrated into the Map Place

Link to BC Digital Geology Map downloads 2005

General Province Wide Data ( .E00 format, zipped) 1995:

bulletBC Basemap (620KB)
bulletBCFULL Basemap (2MB)

Mineral Resource Assessment Level 2 (MRA2) June 2003:

bullet MRA2 Data Read Me
bulletGeoFile 2004-8:  Level 2 Mineral Resource Assessment Coastal British Columbia   View GeoFile 2004-8 (PDF, 800KB)
bulletGeoFile 2004-2: The British Columbia Mineral Potential Project 1992-1997  View GeoFile 2004-2 (PDF, 21.8MB)
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Geospatial Downloads (only MRA Level 1 is available for download)

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Mineral Resource Assessment data on MapPlace

Mineral Resource Assessment Level 1 (MRA1) July 1999:

bulletProvincial Mineral Potential:
BC Albers Projection (3MB) Geographic Projection (2.5MB)
bulletMetadata for Mineral Potential:
BC Albers Metadata Geographic Metadata

Mineral Potential Geology Compilation July 1999 (.E00 format, zipped):

bulletMetadata; covers all regions; Readme file
bulletVancouver Island
bulletCariboo
bulletKootenay
bulletNWBC (Open File 1996-11 east part) plus western portion
bulletSkeena
bulletMidcoast
bulletThompson - Okanagan
bulletNEBC southern part
bulletNEBC northern part
bulletQCI

For more information contact the BC Geological Survey
Mineral Potential Program page.

Last updated April 02, 2007