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MINES AND MINERALS DIVISION
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The
2005 Ontario Budget announced $15M over three years
for geological mapping in the Far North as part of the Ministry
of Northern Development
and Mines' Northern Prosperity Plan.
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OGS talk presented at the Boreal Prospectors’ Symposium,
February 27-28, 2007. Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada
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The 2005 Ontario Budget announced $15M over
three years for geological mapping in the Far North as part of
the Northern Prosperity Plan entitled the Far North Geological
Mapping Initiative.
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The Far North Geological Mapping Initiative needs to address
several Government expectations:
- the Government will invest primarily in Far North geoscience
mapping activities and related technical support activities
required to deliver the geoscience activities;
- aboriginal communication, consultation, and
relationship-building with those communities in, and in
proximity to, the anticipated geoscience activities;
- OGS will publish and be the steward of the geoscience
results to ensure the results are available for all to access
and use to make investment, planning, or policy decisions.
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- Airborne geophysical surveys/remote sensed imagery
- Create new compilation maps based on analysis of existing and
new geoscience data.
- New “feet-on-the-ground” geological bedrock and Quaternary
mapping.
- Geochemical surveys and surficial mapping.
- Purchase proprietary geoscience data from the private sector.
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- Publications and Product Production.
- Marketing of Products.
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- Aboriginal community engagement will include: consulting and
building relationships with those aboriginal people of the Far
North whose communities and traditional areas may lie within the
geoscience study areas.
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If you have additional technical comments,
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Cam Baker,
Senior Manager,
Sedimentary Geoscience Section, OGS
tel: 705-670-5902 |
Jack Parker,
Senior Manager,
Precambrian
Geoscience Section,
OGS
tel: 705-670-5976 |
Hial Newsome,
Senior Manager,
Resident Geologist Program,
OGS
tel: 705-670-5955 |
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For information about the aboriginal engagement
approach, please contact:
Lori
Churchill,
Projects and Results Management Coordinator,
OGS
tel: 705-670-5920 |
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