Help shape a cross-Canada view of provincial and territorial mineral occurrences:
A client survey for the Canadian Geoscience Knowledge Network.

This questionnaire is being circulated on behalf of the federal-provincial-territorial Canadian Geoscience Knowledge Network (CGKN) mineral deposits subproject. The sub-project is now studying client needs, requirements and consequences of enabling a consistent cross-Canada view of abbreviated mineral deposit databases maintained by individual provinces and territories on their own premises through a single CGKN Internet portal. This view would not supplant the provincial or territorial databases, and would not contain all information in those databases.

The purpose of the questionnaire is to gather information about users of Canadian provincial and territorial mineral deposit databases and whether the single portal access will benefit them. It will be used to identify client priorities in data access, content, and delivery. The survey does not constitute a promise to deliver everything you prioritize: some of the information topics are currently missing or inconsistently captured in some databases. Redress could be costly and may not be warranted. However, the survey will provide us with information goals to work toward over the long term.

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    Please answer first eight questions to help us define your client profile.

  1. To which customer categories do you primarily belong ?
    Mining/exploration company
    Consultant or consulting company
    Prospector
    Academic
    Government
    Non-government, non-profit organization
    Other   


  2. What primary business are you in ? (The next question will allow you to indicate additional businesses.)
    Exploration
    Property development
    Mining
    Sustainable development
    Environmental monitoring/reclamation
    Geological mapping/field investigations
    Geological research
    GIS and database management
    Teaching
    Policy
    Other   


  3. What are your additional businesses ? Check any that apply.
    Exploration
    Property development
    Mining
    Sustainable development
    Environmental monitoring/reclamation
    Geological mapping/field investigations
    Geological research
    GIS and database management
    Teaching
    Policy
    Other   


  4. In which commodity groups are you mainly interested ?
    Base metals-principal (e.g. Cu, Pb, Zn)
    Platinum group elements (e.g. platinum, palladium)
    Gold
    Other metals (e.g. Sn, W, REE)
    Diamonds
    Uranium
    Industrial minerals - building materials (e.g. gravel, dimension stone)
    Industrial minerals - agricultural use (e.g. potash)
    Industrial minerals - other industries (e.g. vermiculite, andalusite)
    Other   


  5. In which areas of the world do you operate ?
    North America
    Greenland
    Europe
    Asia
    Australia
    Africa
    South and central America (including Mexico)
    Other   


  6. Do you currently access mineral deposit databases from more than one Canadian province and/or territory ?
    None
    One
    Two or three
    More than three
    No opinion
    Optional comment


  7. How often have you accessed these databases in recent years ?
    Never
    Once a year or less
    Two or three times a year
    More frequently
    No opinion
    Optional comment


  8. How do you currently like to obtain the data ?
    Print directly from your Internet browser
    Download digitally by Internet
    Order CD-ROM or diskette
    Order paper report and maps
    Optional comment


    9. Please answer the following questions to help us evaluate your preferences.

  9. Would access through a single Internet portal providing consistently organized and attributed views of abbreviated provincial and territorial databases be useful to you ? Please indicate level of usefulness on a scale of 1 to 5, where "1" = least useful, "5" = most useful, and "n/o" = no opinion
    1           2           3           4           5           n/o


  10. Which information topics would you like to see included in this cross-Canada view ? Please check items by which you would want to query or filter, and indicate degree of increasing importance, where "1" = least important, "5" = most important and "n/o" = no opinion. The same order of importance can be assigned to multiple items.
    Information topics Query ? Importance
    Names 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Location 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Principal commodities 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Deposit classification 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    NTS map code
    (National Topographic Series)    		 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Current development status 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Host rocks 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Related igneous rocks 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Tectonic setting (e.g. arc) 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Geological province by name 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Stratigraphy 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Geological age terms 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Geochronology (radiometric dates) 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Mineralization style 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Ore Mineralogy 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Alteration/gangue mineralogy 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Local structure 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Metamorphism 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Presence of resource & production information
    for each deposit in prov./terr. databases    		 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Bibliography/references 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Current tenure/ownership status 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    Past tenure/ownership status 1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    1      2      3      4      5      n/o
    1      2      3      4      5      n/o


  11. Disregarding names, location, commodities, and classification, which three of the topics above are the most important ?
    Most important
    Second most important
    Third most important


  12. Which of the following deposit classification systems do you prefer ?
    USGS-style Mineral Deposit Model classification
    British Columbia style classification
    GSC classification (Geology of Canadian Mineral Deposit Types)
    Simple commodity and host/setting based classification
    No opinion
    Optional comment


  13. Please indicate how you would prefer to interact with databases accessed through a cross-Canada view ? Check any that apply.
    Explore metadata (i.e., discover deposit/occurrence data availability and general dataset descriptions, and contact information for provincial and territorial databases).
    View spatial (map) distributions distribution of deposits on topographic, geological or other backgrounds?
    Point, click, view and print information.
    Query/filter by deposit characteristics or location (i.e., ask for sets of deposits that match criteria that you specify).
    Download digital information associated with the query results.
    Optional comment


  14. What would you do with data that you access or obtain ? Check any that apply.
    Include it, possibly reformatted, as text in a report or legend.
    Plot it on a map.
    Use it for spatial modeling, data integration, or visualization (some level of analysis).
    Use it for computation or integration with other non-spatial data.
    Simply refer to it casually, or bookmark it.
    Optional comment


  15. Have you additional comments ?




Revised 2003-09-17