| Lat / long: | 50.46667, -95.45033 |
| Secondary: | Nickel, Copper |
| Tertiary: | PGE |
| Ore: | Chalcopyrite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite |
| Gangue: | Chlorite, Magnetite, Millerite, Pyrite, Talc |
| Orebody form: | IRREGULAR |
| Discovery year: | 1974 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Unknown |
| Development status: | Prospect |
| First production started: | 1974 |
| Last production ended: | 1976 |
| Host type: | Pyroxenite |
| Associated rock: | Bird River Greenstone Belt;Maskwa Lake Quartz Diorite;Lac Dv Bonet Quartz Monzonite Pluton |
| Associated type: | Diabase,Gabbro |
| Structure: | Maskwa Mine Located In Basal Unit Of Bird River Sill And Volcanic Rocks. Belt Folded In Major Anticline With Axis Plunging E To Se. Prominent Nw-Se Faulting In Belt, Bird River Sill Layered And Differentiated Ultramafic To Anorthositic Gabbro. Compositional Layering Indicates Topfacing South. Intense Nw And W Nw Faulting Present. Sill Is Synvolcanic And Has Avg. Thickness 1000m |
| Tectonic: | Bird River Greenstone Belt Part Of English River Gneissic Block Of Precambrian Shield |
| Alteration processes: | Extensive Near-Surface Supergene Alteration |
| MRDS | M046987 |
| DEP | 10039341 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: ANNIS, CRANSTONE, AND VALLEE, 1978 , KNOWN MIN. CA.: DEPT. ENERGY, MINES RESOURCES CA., BULL. MR 181}{Deposit:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1973 - 74 : NO. MINER, P. 207}{Deposit:: COATS, STOCKFORD, AND BUCHAN, 1979, GEOLOGY OF MASKWA WEST NICKEL DEPOSIT, MANITOBA: CANADIAN MINERALOGIST, VOL.17, PP. 309 - 318}{Deposit:: FOGWILL, DOUGLAS, AND BAMBURAK, JAMES, 1987, MINING IN MANITOBA: MANITOBA ENERGY AND MINES, MINERAL EDUCATION SERIES, 46 P.}{Reserve-Resource:: ANNIS ETAL., 1978 , KNOWN MIN. CA. NOT MINED; FOGWILL AND BAMBURAK, 1987, P. 25.} |
| Reporter | Saso, Jerri L., Bolm, Karen S., Oster, Karel L. |