If you’re from the mineral exploration industry, our Targeted Geoscience Initiative’s (TGI’s) publicly available geoscience knowledge and data may help inform your exploration activities. Surface discoveries of extractable metals are increasingly rare in Canada. That’s part of the reason we were established in 2000 as a national, collaborative program housed under the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Our data and knowledge support industry, academics and provincial and territorial governments working to detect buried mineral deposits. We also offer grants to support research that complements our studies.