Coinciding with the Geological Association of Canada’s annual scientific meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories Geological Survey (NTGS) is pleased to announce the recent publication of a major report and bedrock geology map for the south-central Wopmay Orogen and a bedrock geology compilation of the Wopmay Orogen and adjacent Coppermine Homocline.

Led by NTGS geologist Valerie Jackson (now retired), the South Wopmay Bedrock Mapping Project was a major field-based project that combined a systematic bedrock mapping program with thematic studies, verification of key field relationships, and review and compilation of existing geoscience data. A comprehensive report, geographic information system (GIS) files, and 1:125,000 scale PDF map are contained in NTGS Open File 2017-01. This publication provides a modern geological description of the south‐central Wopmay orogen between 64° N and 65° N and significantly upgrades the geological knowledge for this region.

The South Wopmay Bedrock Mapping Project was a major collaborative effort conducted over nine field seasons that generated:

• 9 B.Sc. theses and directed studies

• 3 M.Sc. theses

• 2 Ph.D. theses

• 1 Post-doctoral research program

• 16 Peer-reviewed scientific journal papers

• 20 NTGS Open Reports and Open Files

• Numerous Scientific conference presentations

• ~45 Project leaders, collaborators, and supporters

As a complementary effort to this work, Valerie Jackson and NTGS geologist Doug Irwin (also retired) collaborated on developing a 1:550,000 scale digital atlas compilation titled Bedrock Geology of Wopmay Orogen and Coppermine Homocline, Northwest Territories. This map, published as NWT Open File 2021-02, incorporates bedrock geology data from 44 source maps. The publication contains GIS files and a PDF map and provides the most recent bedrock geological interpretation for the Wopmay Orogen in the Northwest Territories, a region of high mineral potential.