We maintain a large collection of mineral core and rock samples extracted from locations across Alberta at our Mineral Core Research Facility (MCRF) located in Edmonton, central Alberta. The archived core and rock samples are the product of government surveys and industry exploration activities, and are available to prospectors, mineral exploration companies, and academia for mineral exploration and research purposes.
More About Mineral Core and Rock Samples
The Mineral Core Research Facility stores more than 60 500 m of mineral core and more than 19 700 rock samples. Some interesting facts about this collection:
approximately 33 000 m of core related to uranium exploration
approximately 12 000 m of core related diamond exploration
approximately 3000 m of core related to gold exploration
over 18 000 rock samples from the Precambrian shield related to geological mapping
An inventory of the mineral core stored at the Mineral Core Research Facility is available on our Open Data Portal. Alternatively, the Alberta Interactive Minerals Map presents another online platform for exploring and visualizing the geospatial distribution of these borehole locations.
The mineral core inventory includes information about the core, such as
