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A surficial mapping and sampling project has been on-going in northern New Brunswick since 1989.  The nature and type of surficial materials, ice-flow history, patterns of glacial dispersal, mineralogy and pebble lithology of till and till geochemistry were studied.  Some of the work helped delineate possible exploration targets for the mining industry.  In the Atholville-Charlo area, the effectiveness of humus, relative to till, as a sample medium for delineating geochemical dispersal patterns was investigated.

 

Area	NTS	Year	N.B. Publication
Nepisiguit Lakes	21O/7	1989	Geoscience Report GR 94-3
California Lakes	21O/8	1990-1991	Geoscience Report GR 94-3
Atholville Charlo Tetagouche Lakes Hampstead	21O/15 21O/16 21O/9 21O/10	1998-1999	Open File OF 2002-9 *
Nepisiguit Falls	21P/5	1996	Open File OF 99-10 **
Kedgwick Gounamitz R. States Brook Menneval	21O/11 21O/12 21O/13 21O/14	1999-2004	Open File OF 2005-4
Bathurst, Pointe Verte	21P/12, 21P/13	2004-2005	Data not yet published (as of May 2014)
Grand Falls	21O/4	2006	Data not yet published (as of July 2018) Map Plate MP 2010-5 (sample locations)
Grand River	21O/5	2004 2006	DP 2009-5 (report + data) MP 2009-7 (sample locations)
Sisson Branch Reservoir	21O/6	2005	Data not yet published (as of July 2018) Map Plate MP 2010-6 (sample locations)
Edmundston	21N	2006	Data not yet published (as of July 2018) MP 2010-1 (sample locations)
NE New Brunswick Lowlands	21P	2008	Open File OF 2010-5 Map Plates MP 2009-10A and MP 2009-10B

 

* includes reanalyses of till samples from previous surveys already published in NB Geological Notes Series P.M. 86-216 and 88-10 as well as GSC Open File 2236

** includes reanalyses of till samples from a previous survey already published in GSC Open File 2236

Funding was provided by the Geological Surveys Branch (GSB) of New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources.