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GSC Open File 4670 / NTGO Contribution 0006


About this CD-ROM
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This CD-ROM contains stream sediment, heavy mineral concentrate, kimberlite
indicator mineral and water data. These data have been compiled in two basic
forms 1) raw data and 2) derived products. The raw data occurs in separate
flatfiles in DBaseIV, Microsoft Excel2000 and Access2000 file formats. These
standard file formats are easily imported into most spreadsheet, database and
GIS computer programs. Products derived from these raw data consist of: data
listings; summary statistics; and a series of single element and mineral grain
count maps as Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® v5.05 is recommended for best viewing of the CD contents
and is included on the CD for installation. This program can be installed from 
this CD-ROM by double clicking the file ar505enu.exe, located in the \Acrobat 
Reader directory. It is recommended that this version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 
be used (with the Edit->Preferences->Display->Smoothing options toggled on) to 
properly view the PDFs on this CD-ROM.  Earlier or later versions may not 
display the figures and tables as originally intended.

The Homepage Panel
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This is an 'Autoplay' CD-ROM for Microsoft Windows /98/NT/ME/2000 and XP. 
Inserting the CD into your CD-ROM drive will automatically launch the homepage 
panel if you have a .PDF viewer installed on your system.  If .PDF viewer is not
detected on your system, Adobe Acrobat Reader v5.05 is available on the CD.

Directory Structure
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This CD-ROM contains four directories. 
They are:

	\Acrobat Reader	-  Adobe Acrobat Reader v5.05

	\PDF 		-  Preface, data listing, statistics,data presentations
                           and other files used on this CD-ROM. Maps are 
                           presented as Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) 
                           files
	
	\Data		-  NGR data for GSC OF4670 / NTGO Contribution 0006



	
	\Shape Files	-  Files for use with GIS computer programs 
                           (Lat_NAD83,Long_NAD83).

	
Contact Information
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Questions, suggestions, and comments regarding this CD-ROM should be addressed 
to:

Peter Friske
Tel. 613-992-1503
Fax. 613-943-1286
E-mail: pfriske@nrcan.gc.ca

Stephen Day
Tel. 613-995-4950
Fax. 613-943-1286
E-mail: sday@gsc.nrcan.gc.ca

Rick McNeil
Tel. 613-995-7356
Fax. 613-943-1286
E-Mail: rick.mcneil@nrcan.gc.ca

Martin McCurdy
Tel. 613-995-4430
Fax. 613-943-1286
E-mail: mmccurdy@nrcan.gc.ca

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