Publications (October 01, 2000)

The Art & Science of Writing Geoscience Reports by Brian Grant, P.Geo., is a new manual aimed at explorationists and students, as it focuses on report products and standards required during the normal course of mineral exploration and development. It is also a valuable reference for those in research, government surveys, and minerals-related industries such as regulators, stock brokers, analysts and investment managers.

The manual identifies & describes essential components of informative geoscience reports and maps; provides standards for report and map contents; recommends style and presentation concepts; incorporates standards for data acquisition and presentation; and provides guidelines for editing and review of reports. It includes numerous illustrations and handy tables with reference information, and a newly revised geological time scale.

There is an appendix that incorporates and elaborates on recommendations for reporting proposed in the new National Standards 43-101, produced by the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Ontario Securities Commission.

For more information, see the author’s web site at http://sites.netscape.net/geomanual

200 pages including index

6-in x 9-in format, plasticized & spiral bound

ISBN 0-9687693-0-6

Cdn$55

Order from the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, 34 King St.E., 9th Fl., Toronto, ON, Canada, M5C 2X8; Tel: 416-362-1969; Fax: 416-362-0101; e-mail: info@pdac.ca; URL: http://www.pdac.ca

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The Geological Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) has published a special double issue of Exploration and Mining Geology on the theme “Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and Standards in Mineral Resource Estimation.” Vol.7, No.1-2 includes 19 papers presented at a two-day symposium during the 1998 CIM/CMMI/ MIGA meeting. Technically edited by J.M. Franklin and published late in 1999, the 180-page softcover book is for sale for $55 including shipping. To order contact Perla Gantz at the CIM, Tel. 514-939-2710 (ex 308), fax 514-939-2714, e-mail cim@cim.org

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