Geoscience
Report of Activities 2010
Table of contents (140 KB)
Opening Pages (299 KB)
Minister's Message (247 KB)
Project Location Map (889 KB)
Annual review by E.C. Syme (235 KB)
Publications - Preliminary Maps, Publications Released and External Publications (136 KB)
Chapters by Areas:
Far North
Flin Flon–Snow Lake
Superior Boundary Zone, Thompson Nickel Belt
Superior Province
Southern Manitoba and Hudson Bay Basin
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Far North
GS-1 (20 MB)
Far North Geomapping Initiative: bedrock geological investigations in the Seal River region,
northeastern Manitoba (parts of NTS 54L, M, 64I, P)
by S.D. Anderson, C.O. Böhm and E.C. Syme
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2020029 is supplementary to this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2020030 is supplementary to this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
GS-2 (3 MB)
Far North Geomapping Initiative: new U-Pb geochronological results from the Seal River region,
northeastern Manitoba (parts of NTS 54L, M, 64I, P)
by N. Rayner
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2010004 contains the data or other information sources used to compile this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2020029 is supplementary to this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2020030 is supplementary to this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
GS-3 (15 MB)
Far North Geomapping Initiative: Quaternary geology of the Great Island–Kellas Lake area, northern
Manitoba (parts of NTS 54L, M, 64I, P)
by M.T. Trommelen, M. Ross and J.E. Campbell
GS-4 (50 MB)
Far North Geomapping Initiative: geological mapping in the Misty Lake area, Manitoba
(parts of NTS 64K12, 13, 64N4)
by P.D. Kremer, A.R. Carlson and C.G. Couëslan
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2021012 is supplementary to this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
GS-5 (8 MB)
Community Mapping Program with the Sayisi Dene First Nation, Tadoule Lake, north-central
Manitoba: stromatolitic marble occurrence in the Ryan Lake area (part of NTS 64J10)
by L.A. Murphy and A.R. Carlson
Flin Flon–Snow Lake
GS-6 (20 MB)
New geological mapping, geochemical, Sm-Nd isotopic and U-Pb age data for the eastern sub-Phanerozoic
Flin Flon Belt, west-central Manitoba (parts of NTS 63J3–6, 11, 12, 14, 63K1–2, 7–10)
by R-L. Simard, C.R. McGregor, N. Rayner and R.A. Creaser
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2010006 contains the data or other information sources used to compile this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
GS-7 (6 MB)
Northern Flin Flon Belt compilation, Manitoba (parts of NTS 63K12, 13)
by H.P. Gilbert
GS-8 (23 MB)
Detailed (1:10 scale) mapping of regolith structure in dolerite below the Missi unconformity,
Flin Flon area, Saskatchewan (part of NTS 63K12)
by M.G. Babechuk and B.S. Kamber
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2010005 contains the data or other information sources used to compile this report. (PDF, 877 KB)
GS-9 (15 MB)
Description of megabreccias and other evidence for subsidence and vent proximity in the
Schist Lake–Mandy mines area, Flin Flon, west-central Manitoba (part of NTS 63K12)
by Y.M. DeWolfe
GS-10 (11 MB)
Update on geological investigations in the Snow Lake–Squall Lake–Herblet Lake area, west-central
Manitoba (parts of NTS 63J13, 63K16)
by S. Gagné
Superior Boundary Zone, Thompson Nickel Belt
GS-11 (24 MB)
Completion of geological mapping at Paint Lake, central Manitoba (parts of NTS 63P5, 12)
by C.G. Couëslan and T. Martins
Superior Province
GS-12 (8 MB)
Re-evaluation of the geology of the Berens River Domain, east-central Manitoba
(parts of NTS 52L, M, 53D, E, 62P, 63A, H)
by M.T. Corkery, L.A. Murphy and H.V. Zwanzig
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2010002 contains the data or other information sources used to compile this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
GS-13 (14 MB)
Petrological and geochemical investigation of the Cinder Lake alkaline intrusive complex, Knee Lake
area, east-central Manitoba (part of NTS 53L15)
by R.D. Kressall, A.R. Chakhmouradian and C.O. Böhm
Southern Manitoba and Hudson Bay Basin
GS-14 (16 MB)
Shallow unconventional Cretaceous shale gas in southwestern Manitoba: an update (parts of NTS 62C,
F, G, H, J, K, N)
by M.P.B. Nicolas, S.T. Edmonds, N. Chow and J.D. Bamburak
GS-15 (57 MB)
Gammon Ferruginous Member of the Cretaceous Pierre Shale in southwestern Manitoba: distribution
and mineral potential (parts of NTS 62F, G, J, K, N, O, 63C)
by J.D. Bamburak and M.P.B. Nicolas
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2010001 contains the data or other information sources used to compile this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
GS-16 (19 MB)
Stratigraphic correlation of multiple bentonite horizons from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale
(Pembina Member) of Manitoba (part of NTS 62G1, 2)
by J. Hatcher and J.D. Bamburak
MGS Data Repository Item DRI2010003 contains the data or other information sources used to compile this report. (Microsoft® Excel® file)
GS-17 (20 MB)
Hudson Bay and Foxe Basins Project: update on a Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals program
(GEM) initiative, northeastern Manitoba (part of NTS 54)
by M.P.B. Nicolas and D. Lavoie
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