Short Course 10:
Exploring the MapPlace and Mineral Titles Online

Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010
Location: Centre, Computer Lab 7050 7th floor, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver
Presented by: AME BC & the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources

This one-day short course will be of interest to mineral exploration and research geoscientists who want to use freely accessible government applications for research to identify new exploration targets and for mineral tenure acquisition and maintenance.

The hands-on course will review the basic tools of select, zoom, copy, paste, layer manipulation, and report and map printing for both the MapPlace and Mineral Titles Online (MTO).  The MapPlace portion of the course will instruct participants to investigate key databases for mineral tenure, mineral inventory, mineral potential, assessment reports, geochemistry, geophysics, and geology to generate exploration targets and strategies.  Exercises will include running queries such as zooming to any geographic location, finding location of mineral deposits, viewing tenure owners, extracting data from point/polygon intersections, and using visualization tools, such as Google Earth, to display data. The MTO portion of the course will instruct participants on accessing MTO, and acquiring and maintaining tenure. The procedures for the landowner notification report will also be reviewed. 

Since 1995, the MapPlace has provided clients with efficiencies in research time, data costs, and analysis.  Mineral Titles Online was implemented in January 2005 as a world-class online tenure registry and allows anyone from anywhere in the world to register and maintain a tenure. The use of these two systems coupled together offers the mineral exploration industry many resources to make and achieve sound business decisions.  Links to both applications and supporting documentation can be found under Popular Topics at http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca.

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