What's Next For Quest

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Prince George, B.C. -  With initial results released from its Quest mineral exploration project, Geoscience B.C. is hoping to launch a similar study -- once again -- in northcentral B.C..

On Monday, the agency released the results of an airborne electromagnetic survey done over a corridor from Williams Lake to the Mackenzie-Fort St. James area.  (area shaded on map at left)

The $5-million dollar project was funded, in part, with a $750-thousand dollar grant from the Northern Development Intiatitive Trust’s Mountain Pine Beetle Recovery Program.

And Geoscience B.C. President, Dr. Lyn Anglin, says some additional time will now be spent processing and interpreting the data.  Dr. Anglin says interest from the mining industry was just so great, that her group wanted to get the early results out. 

A gravity survey over the same area has just wrapped up and those findings should be out this spring.

In addition, Dr. Anglin says Geoscience plans to begin work on a similar project within the mountain pine beetle kill area to the west of the present Quest area.

"But we don’t know exactly what the boundaries will be yet," says Anglin. 

"We’re hoping to design that project over the next couple of months and do some more large surveys like the ones we’ve done in Quest."

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