New Funding for Mineral Exploration
The Province is supporting mineral exploration work in pine beetle-affected areas of the province with $6 million for Geoscience BC's QUEST-West program, said Premier Gordon Campbell as he presented the funding to Geoscience BC at the Minerals North Conference on April 18. The new QUEST-West funding will be used to generate new geoscience data, covering approximately 40,000 square kilometres extending from Vanderhoof-Fort St James to Terrace and including the communities of Fraser Lake, Burns Lake, Granisle, Houston, Telkwa and Smithers.