Quest, Quest-West, Now Quest-South Announced

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 03:57 AM

Prince George, B.C. – Geoscience B.C. has completed the Quest, and Quest- west projects, now it is launching the first phase of Quest-South.

Like the previous projects, the object is to find evidence of minerals that could lead to new mining exploration and mine development.

The project will reanalyze more than 9,000 archived stream sediment samples from Williams Lake , south to the B.C.- US border, and from Revelstoke west to Pemberton.

The archived samples had been previously collected by the Geological Survey of Canada and BC Geologicial Survey. More than 1,000 new stream and soil samples will be taken in the areas of Princeton, Merritt and Ashcroft.

Geoscience BC will pay for the full study which is expected to cost about $450,000.

Details on Phase 2 of the QUEST-South Project are expected to be released later this year.

"New geoscience data in the south central region will further stimulate exploration activity and investment in the area," said Minister of State for Mining, Gordon Hogg. "Geoscience BC's QUEST, QUEST-West and now QUEST-South will unlock the province's mineral potential, stimulating local economies and providing direct and indirect employment opportunities in communities across the province."

Following the release of data from the Quest and Quest West projects, thousands of mining claims were filed with the Province.

The QUEST-South area has a long history of mineral exploration and mining, including the Highland Valley Copper mine, the Gold Bridge gold-quartz vein camp, Taseko Mines Ltd's Prosperity deposit and Copper Mountain (Copper Mountain Mining Corp).

Geoscience BC will also continue to add value to the information already gathered as part of the previous projects which focused on prospective rocks between Williams Lake and Prince George, and Vanderhoof and Terrace respectively.

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Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on April 8 2009 7:42 AM

I expect some posts from the same people that protest the airport expansion to complain that this project too is a waste of money. After all if there was any minerals out there, there would all ready be a mine there, right?

What a waste of taxpayers dollars! Right?

And if there was any potential out there then private industry dollars would be spent on it so corporate greed could continue to refuse to a pay a decent wage instead of just paying minimum wages!

And PG sucks, blab blab...

Posted by: Chug on April 8 2009 8:13 AM

You're seriously comparing mineral exploration with spending millions on an airport expansion with no customers lined up to use it on completion, and no way to get customers but endless junkets to Asia pandering to politicians and business?

It reminds me about the Simpsons monorail episode.

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Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrified,
Six-car
Monorail!
What'd I say?
Ned Flanders: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
Patty+Selma: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail!
[crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically]
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
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Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All: Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
[big finish]
Monorail!
Homer: Mono... D'oh!

Posted by: gold_rush on April 8 2009 10:58 AM

67% of mineral discoveries since 1970 were made during regional/district exploration programs. So keep up the good work.

Posted by: Palopu on April 8 2009 9:52 PM

Gold. Unless you tell us how many discoveries were actually made your 67% figure means nothing.

People have been mining West, North, and South of Prince George for over 100 years.

The most recent big mines that ran for 15 plus years and then shut down were Granisle Copper, and Noranda Mines. These were huge copper mines, however they are no longer in production.

Endako mines has been around since the 1970's or earlier, and are now looking at an expansion.

Smithers has a long history of mining. We know that there is all kinds of minerals North on Highway 37. Red Chris Copper, etc;, and these mines will be exploited in the future.

Kemess mines will probably close in the next few years, however there was a plan for a new mine called Kemess South that would have lasted for another 15 years, however it didnt get past the enviromental reveiw.

Terrane metals will be opening a big mine North West of Mackenzie in the next few years. In addition Gibralter Mines South of Williams Lake has gotten an extension on life because of the High price of copper.

Even though the two major coal mines in Tumbler ridge closed down, their are still smaller coal mines operating in the area.

So you can see that we already have plently of potential for mines to locate in this part of the Country. Locating more areas for mining does not necessarily mean more mines.