Index to Hyperspectral Imagery and High-Resolution Photographs for Selected Mineral Core from the Athabasca Basin, Canadian Shield, and Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in Alberta

In November 2021, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) / Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) contracted Spectrum Geoscience Ltd. to generate high-resolution photography and depth-associated hyperspectral imagery for 805 drillcore intervals; the total scan length was ~50 970.18 m. This project included drillcore from both the AGS Mineral Core Research Facility (MCRF) in Edmonton, Alberta, and the AER Core Research Centre (CRC) in Calgary, Alberta. Spectrum Geoscience Ltd. subcontracted TerraCore Geospectral Imaging (TerraCore) to provide a custom-built IntelliCore® system for the data. 
For each of the 805 core intervals photographed and scanned in this project, the vendor delivered longwave infrared (LWIR), shortwave infrared (SWIR), and visible and near-infrared (VNIR) raw hyperspectral imagery data; true-colour imagery data generated from red, green, and blue (RGB); and two optimized PDF files containing summary core logs of depth-associated hyperspectral data, including imagery and dominant mineral maps, and core photos with RGB true-colour imagery. All of these products are currently available to view and download through the AGS Core Data Interactive Map (IAM 014) and the Alberta Interactive Minerals Map (IAM 001). 
This Special Report includes a report on the standard image products, spectral features, and spectral indices of the IntelliCore® system; a summary of TerraCore metadata, including descriptions of the image types and their intended purposes, equipment details, and data collection and processing details; and a digital file with a list of the analyzed core intervals with associated metadata, including geospatial locations, interval depths, scan lengths, geological units intersected, lithologies intersected, and target commodities. 
The core intervals analyzed in this project were drilled during previous mineral exploration projects to target a variety of commodities and intervals of interest, including, but not limited to gold, diamonds, lithium brines, uranium, base metals, polymetallic shale, potash, evaporites, kimberlite-indicator minerals, titanium, platinum, silver, copper, zinc, lead, oil sands, and zones of potential mineralization or hydrothermal alteration. It should be noted that the target commodity in the digital file indicates the purpose for which each well/hole was originally drilled and does not necessarily indicate that the commodity is present. The core intervals intersect a variety of lithologies and stratigraphic intervals from the Precambrian basement, Paleozoic carbonate rocks and evaporites, Mesozoic fine- and coarse-grained siliciclastic rocks, through to Quaternary sediments. The core selected for this project are geospatially distributed throughout the province, within the Alberta portions of the Athabasca Basin, Canadian Shield, and Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. 
This work was completed under the Mineral Grant provided by the Government of Alberta dated June 22, 2021.