Mine detail: Moak Lake

Previously called 'Moak Mine'

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Location: Manitoba, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 55.96924, -97.53768
dep_id: 10103709
mrds_id: M046250
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Nickel, Copper
Trace mineral: PGE
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
alteration: Serpentinization, Mylonization Of Country Rock, Mylonization Of Country Rock.
conc_proc: Magmatic Segregation
ore_ctrl: Series Of Subparallel Faults
Reporter: Blair, Will N., Oster, Karel L.
hrock_type: Peridotite
Structure: Ne Trending Structures And A Parallel Steeply Dipping Regional Foliation., Complexly Folded Metaseds. With Steeply Plunging Axes. Host Rock Has Synclinal Form Concordant With Surrounding Rocks.
tectonic: Churchill Province, Wabolden Subprovince, Precambrian Shield
References:
  • Deposit:: MERTIE, 1969, ECON. GEOL. PT: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 630, P. 26, 27
  • Deposit:: ZURBRIGG, 1962, THOMPSON MINE GEOL: CANADIAN MIN. METALL. BULL. 56, P. 451, 453
  • Deposit:: ANNIS, CRANSTONE, AND VALEE, L978, KNOWN MIN. CA.: DEPT. OF ENERGY, MINES RESOURCES CA., BULL. MR 181.
  • Deposit:: COATS, QUIRKE, BELL, CRANSTONE, AND CAMPBELL, 1972: GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF FLIN FLON, LYNN LAKE AND THOMPSON AREAS, MANITOBA, AND THE CHURCHILL SUPERIOR FRONT OF THE WEST, PRECAMBRIAN SHIELD: 24TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD EXCURSION A31-C31, 96P.
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