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Reconnaissance geochemical surveys were carried out in southwestern New Brunswick over a five year period, from 1966 to 1970.  The project was jointly sponsored by the Province of New Brunswick and the Atlantic Development Board.  It was intended to provide basic information on the distribution of trace elements in drainage sediments from which potentially mineralized areas could be broadly outlined.

A summary of the project follows:

 

Year	NTS Map Sheet	NB Department of Natural Resources Publication
1966	21G/2, 3, 6	Report of Investigation No. 4
1967	21G/1, 2, 7. 8	Report of Investigation No. 6
1968, 1969	21G/2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11	Report of Investigation No. 11
1970	21G/10, 11, 13, 14, 15	Report of Investigation No. 14

 

 

The Atlantic Development Board (ADB) was established in 1962 in response to a 1957 report of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects that recommended federal government assistance to improve the social capital structure of the Atlantic Provinces.  The ADB was a corporate body consisting of five private citizens, reporting to the Minister of Transport.  The Board incorporated three principles of regional economic development: joint co-ordination of development programs with the governments of the Atlantic provinces; a concern with the overall basic structure of the regional economy; and federal financial assistance for essential development projects for which satisfactory financial arrangements were not otherwise available.  The Board was created as a special agency, distinct from the regular machinery of government.  Its members were appointed for fixed periods from all the Atlantic provinces, and from diverse fields of activity.