Mine detail: Moak Lake

Previously called 'Moak Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

55.96924, -97.53768

Resource(M)

Primary:	Nickel, Copper
Tertiary:	PGE
Ore:	Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host 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
Alteration processes:	Serpentinization, Mylonization Of Country Rock, Mylonization Of Country Rock.

References

MRDS	M046250
DEP	10103709
Reference	{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.}
Reporter	Blair, Will N., Oster, Karel L.