Flin Flon Project
The Flin Flon TGI 3 Project is a multidisciplinary geoscience study designed to help in the discovery of new reserves of base metals in vulnerable established mining communities in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The project is focused on the world-class Paleoproterozoic Base Metal mining camps of the Trans-Hudson Orogen of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, stretching from the presently operating Flin Flon-Creighton camp to the recently closed Lynn Lake camp. It is developing and testing new geoscientific models, methods and approaches that will guide exploration in this highly promising but poorly exposed area of the Canadian Shield. The project has been developed through joint provincial-federal-industry consultation and is a fully integrated tripartite partnership, involving targeted bedrock and surficial mapping, airborne geophysics, seismic exploration, geochemistry and supporting geoscience.
The project has three major components. The Tier One component focuses on base-metal rich portions of the Glennie-Flin Flon-Snow Lake district, and includes geoscience directly related to the extending existing reserves of base metals and elucidating new occurrences in the district; specifically
- a 1:10,000 bedrock map of the Flin Flon VMS camp and supporting geoscience studies including stratigraphy, volcanic architecture and structure in the Flin Flon-Snow Lake district;
- a camp-scale 3D knowledge cube underpinned by a 2D/3D seismic study and subsurface geochemical, stratigraphic and structure data incorporated from existing HudBay drilling,
- airborne surveys of part the northern Hanson Lake block and southern Glennie domain, Saskatchewan and remote predictive interpretation maps based on integration of the airborne surveys with targeted new mapping
- supporting ore mineralogy, sulphide geochemistry, mapping and isotopic studies including areas such as the historic Sherridon camp, and exposed and SubPhanerozoic extensions of the Hanson and West Amisk areas.
The Tier Two component focuses on regional Trans-Hudson base metal potential and includes
- synthesis of the surficial geology of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, including supporting till geochemical analyses, airphoto interpretation and targeted surficial mapping;
- airborne surveys in the Wuskwatim-Notigi Lake areas, west of Thompson, MB, associated targeted field mapping and supporting isotopic and geochemical analyses, resulting in new 1:100,000 maps of the eastern Kisseynew belt. This work is aimed at tesing the model that Archean basement and cover underlie parts of the Kisseynew basin;
- an airborne survey in the Partridge Breast area, north of Leaf Rapids, MB and updated bedrock geological maps of the Lynn Lake-Partridge Breast area.
- Synthesis and release of geochemical and isotopic datasets for the Lynn Lake nickel mine area.
The Tier Three component involves developing methods for detecting signatures of VMS deposits buried by Phanerozoic cover, utilizing aqueous geochemistry of soils and seeps.
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