The MCRF is a large warehouse complex for core storage with two viewing/display areas and a visitors office.
The MCRF contains more than 58,572 metres of mineral core and 17,000 rock samples, primarily from the exposed Canadian Shield in northeast Alberta.
A diamond drillcore selection and storage program was started by the Alberta Energy and Natural Resources Department in 1979.
Mineral core and rock samples are collected by AGS geologists and exploration companies and sent to the MCRF.
The core is catalogued, stored and available for logging or sampling by the public, industry or scientific community.