Assessment Report Index System (ARIS) Database

The British Columbia Geological Survey (BCGS) manages and maintains a library of over 39,600 mineral Assessment Reports. These reports have been filed by the exploration and mining industry since 1947 and describe exploration work costing over 2.8 billion dollars. The reports contain information on geology, geophysics, geochemistry, drilling, prospecting and physical work. After a one-year confidentiality period, this information is available for planning mineral exploration investment, research studies, land-use planning and resource management. The mineral reports are reviewed for compliance with the Mineral Tenure Act Regulations and indexed in the ARIS (Assessment Report Indexing System) database. ARIS archives previous exploration results so that the exploration community can advance projects without duplicating previous work. All reports coming off confidential are distributed as .PDF files on the Internet. Over 620 reports have accompanying digital data which are provided as .ZIP downloads. ARIS can be accessed through ARIS/www, a Web search tool, and the web services of MapPlace. The ARIS database can also be downloaded from the BCGS website and the BC Data Catalogue.

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• ARIS
• assessment reports
• digital data
• exploration results
• geology
• index system
• mineral deposits
• mineral exploration
• mineral occurrences
• owner and operator
• work done

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• Maturity Level 2 (38%)
• Maturity Level 3 (0%)
• Maturity Level 4 (10%)
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• Maturity Level 6 (0%)

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Last Updated	October 19, 2025, 23:20 (UTC)
Created	October 19, 2025, 23:20 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Assessment Report Index System (ARIS) Database
Description A description of the dataset.	The British Columbia Geological Survey (BCGS) manages and maintains a library of over 39,600 mineral Assessment Reports. These reports have been filed by the exploration and mining industry since 1947 and describe exploration work costing over 2.8 billion dollars. The reports contain information on geology, geophysics, geochemistry, drilling, prospecting and physical work. After a one-year confidentiality period, this information is available for planning mineral exploration investment, research studies, land-use planning and resource management. The mineral reports are reviewed for compliance with the Mineral Tenure Act Regulations and indexed in the ARIS (Assessment Report Indexing System) database. ARIS archives previous exploration results so that the exploration community can advance projects without duplicating previous work. All reports coming off confidential are distributed as .PDF files on the Internet. Over 620 reports have accompanying digital data which are provided as .ZIP downloads. ARIS can be accessed through ARIS/www, a Web search tool, and the web services of MapPlace. The ARIS database can also be downloaded from the BCGS website and the BC Data Catalogue.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	ARIS assessment reports digital data exploration results geology index system mineral deposits mineral exploration mineral occurrences owner and operator work done
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2003-09-01
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

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Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	Access Only
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/assessment-report-index-system-aris-database
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	BC Geological Survey
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	Jessica Norris
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?	[email protected]
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

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Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=BB21FF391EBA4E7280EA3E92DE6487D2
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

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Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

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Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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