June 12, 2007

Geoscience BC (see below) has announced the QUEST Project, a new geoscience initiative designed to focus mineral exploration in central British Columbia. This $5M project is the largest public geoscience work program in British Columbia’s history.

Dr Colin Barnett of BW Mining is a key member of the GBC team that developed this program. More details of the novel approaches employed can be seen on the QUEST Project website.

February 1, 2007

One of our partners, Dr Colin Barnett, has agreed to serve as a Technical Advisor to Geoscience BC (GBC) an industry-led, not-for-profit geoscience organization based in Vancouver, Canada.

Geoscience BC's mandate is to generate applied geoscience data and attract more exploration investment to British Columbia. GBC was created in April 2005 with a $25 million grant to the Association for Mineral Exploration BC. More information can be found on the Geoscience BC website.

October 3, 2006

An Exploration Alliance has been signed with Rimfire Minerals Corporation to explore a 120,000 square kilometre region of the Lachlan Fold Belt in NSW, Australia. This is a highly prospective area where we have recently completed a data mining study for gold and base-metal mineralization.

More details of the LFB Alliance are provided in this Rimfire news release.

August 7, 2006

An article by Barnett and Williams of BW Mining is featured as the Special Topic on Mining Geoscience in the July 2006 issue of First Break, a leading geoscience publication in Europe (1.2Mb pdf).

June 6, 2006

A paper by C T Barnett and P M Williams, entitled "Mineral exploration using modern data mining techniques" and describing aspects of the BWM process, has been published by the Society of Economic Geologists.

This invited paper is included in SEG's Special Publication 12, Wealth Creation in the Minerals Industry: Integrating Science, Business, and Education, 2006. Details of this centenary publication can be found at SEG's online bookstore.