Berg Copper Project map

This map shows the proposed Berg Copper mine of Surge Copper Corp., about 80 kilometres southwest of Houston, BC. Select a pin to read what the Initial Project Description (IPD) says about that place.

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Measured: the IPD prints the coordinates.
Inferred: the location comes from IPD figure linework.
Reference: the location comes from provincial open data, and the text comes from the IPD.

Mine components, the Project Area, the transmission line, the access road and the mineral claims are read from the vector drawings in IPD Figures 4.1-1, 3-1 and 3.2-1 and placed by the printed UTM grid. They show a pre-feasibility design and remain subject to change. Read how the map is made.

Reserves, parks, lakes, creeks and recreation sites come from British Columbia open data under the Open Government Licence. Source: Berg Copper Initial Project Description, September 2026.

Return to the Berg Copper public record.

How the map is made

Each map figure in the IPD is a GIS export in the NAD 1983 UTM Zone 9N projection, and its frame carries printed easting and northing labels. The map pairs the page position of every grid label with its printed value and fits a straight line for each axis. The fit converts the figure's own drawing coordinates to metres on the ground.

The figures store their lines and areas as vectors. The map reads those vectors directly from the PDF instead of tracing an image, transforms them to UTM, clips them to the figure frame and converts them to latitude and longitude.

Three checks support the method. The grid-label fits leave residuals below 4 metres on every figure. The lake shorelines drawn in Figure 4.1-1 fall within a median of 1 metre of the provincial Freshwater Atlas shoreline of Nanika Lake. The reconstructed Project Area measures 5,010 hectares, against 5,009 hectares stated in the IPD.

The georeferencing is therefore accurate to a few metres for the site layout and to about 10 metres for the regional figures. The design itself is a pre-feasibility layout, and its real accuracy is set by the engineering stage, not by the map.

The control points and fit statistics are published in georef.json.