Innovation Spring 2025

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Newly published professional practice guidelines and advisories

Practice advisory: Diamond Drill Core Logging: Structure Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s practice advisory on Diamond Drill Core Logging: Structure establishes the expectations of professional practice related to logging geological structures as observed in diamond drill core for mineral exploration, mining projects, and related geotechnical engineering studies. Data inputs derived from diamond drill core logging are used to create subsurface geological and geomechanical models that inform mineral exploration, mining projects, and geotechnical engineering studies. It is essential that data are collected in an accurate, reliable, and consistent manner between professional registrants to ensure public safety and environmental protection. This practice advisory describes the expectations of professional registrants engaged in recording diamond drill hole collars, surveys, drill depths, core orientations, obtaining and recording minimum geotechnical data, and logging geological structures in diamond drill core to support mineral exploration, mining projects, and geotechnical engineering studies. This practice advisory should be used in conjunction with the CIM Mineral Exploration Best Practice Guidelines , the Mines Act , and the Health, Safety and Reclamation Code for Mines in British Columbia .

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Mandatory: Regulatory Learning Module for 2024-2025 Practising registrants must complete this mandatory Regulatory Learning module in the current reporting year (July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025). The course is available on-demand. This year’s module is focused on duty to report. The duty to report requires registrants who become aware of unsafe, illegal, or unethical practices, or risks of significant harm to the environment or to the health or safety of the public or a group of people to make a report to Engineers and Geoscientists BC. This requirement promotes public safety and builds and reinforces public confidence in the professions of engineering and geoscience.

Guidelines and advisories egbc.ca/Guidelines

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Spring 2025

Innovation