| Location: | Manitoba, Canada, North America |
| Lat / long: | 50.46667, -95.45033 |
| dep_id: | 10039341 |
| mrds_id: | M046987 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Minor mineral: | Nickel, Copper |
| Trace mineral: | PGE |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Unknown |
| Development status: | Prospect |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite |
| gangue: | Chlorite, Magnetite, Millerite, Pyrite, Talc |
| orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR |
| work_type: | Surface |
| alteration: | Extensive Near-Surface Supergene Alteration |
| conc_proc: | Primary Magmatic Segregation In The Magma |
| ore_ctrl: | Close Proximity Of Bird River Sill To Feeder Source And Magmatic Settling Towards Base Of Sill(Ref. No. 3,P316) |
| Reporter: | Saso, Jerri L., Bolm, Karen S., Oster, Karel L. |
| hrock_type: | Pyroxenite |
| arock_unit: | Bird River Greenstone Belt;Maskwa Lake Quartz Diorite;Lac Dv Bonet Quartz Monzonite Pluton |
| arock_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 |
| Year first produced: | 1974 |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1976 |
| disc_yr: | 1974 |
| discr: | Dumbarton Mines Ltd. |
| References: |
- 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.
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