Canadian Database of Geochemical Surveys

Name of repository

Canadian Database of Geochemical Surveys

Additional name(s)

• Banque de données de levés géochimiques du Canada
• CDoGS

Repository URL

https://geochem.nrcan.gc.ca/cdogs/content/main/home_en.htm

Subject(s)

• Geosciences (including Geography)
• Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Crystallography
• Natural Sciences

Description

This website is the public interface to the "Canadian Database of Geochemical Surveys". The database has two long-term goals. Firstly, it aims to catalogue all of the regional geochemical surveys that have been carried out across Canada, beginning in the 1950s. Secondly, it aims to make the raw data from those surveys available in a standardised format. Over 1,500 surveys have been catalogued. Approximately 500 are considered to be of long-term strategic value for mineral exploration and environmental baseline studies. Work is progressing on standardising the data for these 500 surveys. To date over 250 datasets have been converted.

Contact

• https://www.canada.ca/en/contact.html

Content type(s)

• Standard office documents
• Raw data
• Scientific and statistical data formats

Keyword(s)

• survey

Repository size

1.591 surveys catalogued; 291 surveys standardised;

Repository type(s)

• other

Mission statement for designated community

https://geochem.nrcan.gc.ca/cdogs/content/main/home_en.htm

Research data repository language(s)

• English
• French

Data and/or service provider

• data provider