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I understand. It's a pitty, though, I've seen a lot of good geology work that gets stuck in a company drawer, never to see the light of day again. In Canada, all assessment work on public lands must be filed with the gov. I have recently been doing a compilation on a property in BC and I can access a wealth of information through the web. When Anaconda went bust, all of their exploration files went to the University Library in Laramie. But in order to use the files, one has to subscribe to the Library at an astronomical rate, way too much money for a contractor like myself. I have worked on projects in the past that once they were dropped, I was able to convince the company to donate the data to a University. But this is really uncommon. Often, we would cut deals for information with other companies, trading data and maps, but this was always a huge pain in the ass.

I understand that a mining company would want to protect its intellectual property, but if it is on public land, I think the tax payers' have a say as well.

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