The Yukon archive of assessment reports contains a significant amount of data; however, accessing these data is challenging due to the absence of a centralized storage system. This paper introduces the Geochemical Assessment Report Data Extracted database (GARDEd), which is specifically designed to store these data. Initially, GARDEd was constructed using data from assessment reports from a 75 km radius of the Casino deposit in the Yukon, but this spatial limit was subsequently removed. The initial release of the database contains geochemical data describing more than 300 000 surficial samples from more than 300 assessment reports submitted after 2004.
The structure of GARDEd follows the data model developed by the British Columbia Geological Survey for storing surficial geochemical sample data acquired from their assessment reports. This paper outlines the structure of the database and discusses the workflow for extracting the data. The paper also describes a custom Python tool developed to automate data extraction from digital assessment reports.
