Geoscience
Report of Activities 2014
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Table of contents
Opening Pages
Minister's Message
Project Location Map
Annual review by C.O. Böhm
Publications - Preliminary Maps, Publications Released and External Publications
Chapters by Areas:
Superior Province
Trans-Hudson Orogen
Phanerozoic
Quaternary
Community Liaison
Outreach
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Superior Province
GS-1
Preliminary results from bedrock mapping in the Armstrong Lake area, Pikwitonei granulite domain,
central Manitoba (parts of NTS 63P10, 11)
by C.G. Couëslan
GS-2
Preliminary results from bedrock mapping in the Partridge Crop Lake area, eastern margin of the
Thompson nickel belt, central Manitoba (parts of NTS 63P11, 12) – Year Two
by C.G. Couëslan
NOTE: The PDF of GS-2 from Report of Activities 2014 has been reprinted with a minor change to the footer (December, 2014).
GS-3
Mineral chemistry of chromite in the Mayville intrusion: evidence for petrogenesis and linkage to the
Bird River sill in the Neoarchean Bird River greenstone belt, southeastern Manitoba (parts of NTS
52L5, 6, 12)
by X.M. Yang and H.P. Gilbert
GS-4
Granitoid rocks in southeastern Manitoba: preliminary results of reconnaissance mapping and sampling
by X.M. Yang
GS-5
Stratigraphic and structural reappraisal of the Bidou assemblage in the vicinity of the southeastern
margin of the Ross River pluton, Rice Lake belt, southeastern Manitoba, and implications for gold
mineralization (part of NTS 52L14)
by X. Zhou, S. Lin and S.D. Anderson
Trans-Hudson Orogen
GS-6
Update on the geology and geochemistry of the west Reed Lake area, Flin Flon greenstone belt,
west-central Manitoba (part of NTS 63K10)
by S. Gagné and S.D. Anderson
GS-7
Whole-rock oxygen-isotope mapping of the footwall alteration zones at the Lalor auriferous VMS deposit,
Snow Lake, west-central Manitoba (NTS 63K16)
by P. Mercier-Langevin, A. Caté and P.-S. Ross
GS-8
Structural controls on geometry and ore distribution in the Lalor auriferous VMS deposit, Snow Lake,
west-central Manitoba (part of NTS 63K16): preliminary results from underground mapping
by A. Caté, P. Mercier-Langevin, P.-S. Ross and D. Simms
NOTE: This report was reprinted with revisions, January 2015.
GS-9
Characteristics and controls of gold mineralization in the Brunne Lake area of the Flin Flon belt,
west-central Manitoba (parts of NTS 63K11, 14)
by J.A. Dunn and S. Gagné
GS-10
Geological scoping study of the Sherridon structure, northern margin of the Flin Flon domain,
western Manitoba (parts of NTS 63N2, 3)
by C.G. Couëslan and T. Martins
GS-11
Bedrock geology of the Northern Indian Lake area, Manitoba (parts of NTS 64H3, 5, 6)
by P.D. Kremer and T. Martins
Phanerozoic
GS-12
Introduction to the GEM-2 Hudson–Ungava Project, Hudson Bay Lowland, northeastern Manitoba
by M.P.B. Nicolas, D. Lavoie and J. Harrison
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2014002 is supplementary to this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
GS-13
Reconnaissance field mapping of Paleozoic rocks along the Churchill River and Churchill coastal area,
northeastern Manitoba (parts of NTS 54E, L, K)
by M.P.B. Nicolas and G.A. Young
GS-14
Diagenesis of the Lower Silurian Ekwan River and Attawapiskat formations, Hudson Bay Lowland,
northern Manitoba (parts of NTS 54B, F, G)
by L.A. Eggie, E. Pietrus, A. Ramdoyal and N. Chow
GS-15
Update on the rare-earth element potential of the Gammon Ferruginous Member of the Upper Cretaceous
Pierre Shale in southwestern Manitoba
by J.D. Bamburak, T. Martins, M.P.B. Nicolas and X.M. Yang
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2014004 is supplementary to this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
GS-16
Late Cretaceous (Santonian–Campanian) marine microfossils of the Manitoba escarpment, southwestern
Manitoba
by R. Muehlbauer, D.C. Kelly, J.D. Bamburak and M.P.B. Nicolas
Quaternary
GS-17
Preliminary Quaternary geology in the Gillam area, northeastern Manitoba (parts of NTS 54D5–11,
54C12) – Year Two
by M.S. Trommelen, Y. Wang and M. Ross
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2014003 is supplementary to this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
Note: DRI2014003 has been superseded by Geoscientific Paper GP2022-2.
Community Liaison
GS-18
Community liaison and a collaborative community-based geological mapping project of the
Munroe Lake greenstone belt at Gods Lake, east-central Manitoba (parts of NTS 53L7, 8, 9, 10)
by L.A. Murphy
Outreach
GS-19
Manitoba Rocks!: mineral education outreach breaking new ground
by S. Michaels
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