Till New Brunswick 1987

Till sampling survey, NTS 21O/15, 22B/1,2, northern New Brunswick, 1987-1988.  


New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources

Survey Description

Till samples were collected in or around 1988 in the Atholville, Escuminac and Oak Bay areas in northern New Brunswick. The data are published in New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy Geological Notes Series PM 88-10. Some samples from this area were re-analysed and published in New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy Open File 2002-9.

Data Description: Paper report.

Quantities Analysed: <0.063 mm fraction by AAS after nitric-hydrochloric acid for 9 elements; by colorimetric method for Mo; by fire assay-INAA for Au, and by CV-AA after nitric acid digestion for Hg.

Geochem Plots Available: Plates show hand-contoured data plots.



Publication History

Pronk, A.G., Parkhill, M.A. (1988). Surficial geology and till geochemistry (Au, As, Sb, Hg, Bi, Cu, Pb, Zn, Ag, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Mo) of Atholville (21 O/15) map area and part of Escuminac (22 B/1) and Oak Bay (22 B/2) map areas, New Brunswick). New Brunswick Dept of Natural Resources, Geological Surveys Branch Geological Notes Series PM 88-10.

Dickson, M.L. (2002). Drift prospecting and Quaternary geology in the Atholville and Charlo map areas, northern New Brunswick. (NTS 21 O/15, 16. New Brunswick Dept of Natural Resources Open File 2002-9, 171p.


Project History

1987-1988 Northern New Brunswick till sampling survey carried out in 1987-1988.
  A till geochemistry and surficial mapping project was carried out in the Atholville, Escuminac and Oak Bay areas of northern New Brunswick. The area was chosen because the bedrock geology is similar to that of the Upsalquitch Forks area to the south were gold occurrences are known. No extensive geochemical studies had yet been conducted in the area except for regional stream sediments (Friske-GSC) and little exploration activity had taken place in the area but there was interest in near-by areas of similar geological settings, so this area was a logical choice for further mapping and sampling. The data are published in New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy Geological Notes Series PM 88-10.

1998-2002 North central New Brunswick till and soil sampling survey carried out in 1998-1999.
  Till and humus samples were collected in the Atholville-Charlo map area in north central New Brunswick in 1998-1999. One objective of the study was to determine the effectiveness of humus, relative to till, as a sampling medium for delineating geochemical dispersal patterns. The data are published in New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy Open File 2002-9. The dataset also includes reanalyses of till samples from previous surveys already published in N.B. Geological Notes Series P.M. 86-216 and 88-10 as well as GSC OF 2236).



Minimum Latitude Maximum Latitude Minimum Longitude Maximum Longitude

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48.45º -67º -66.3º