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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 30,000 mineral Assessment Reports dating from 1947. Reports can be viewed online 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.
Since July 2007 all mineral assessment reports have been scanned and posted as Adobe PDF files. They are available online, free of charge. For further information on ARIS, please refer to one of the following:
