...if we believe this theory of one glacier passing over San, then we shoud see large rich veins as this deformation was spread. around ..,Lightly.............................

The Manigotagen Gneissic Belt, which lies immediately south of the Rice Lake

greenstone belt, represents a lithologic gradation from the low-grade metavolcanic and

metasedimentary rocks through paragneiss and migmatite to quartz dioritic and

granodioritic gneiss.

There are at least three and possibly four major periods of deformation in the Rice Lake

area (Sasseville, 1999). The resulting fold pattern is complex with overturned, doubly

plunging folds common in the Rice Lake Group rocks. The late Archean San Antonio

Formation sedimentary rocks may have only been affected by the last major period of

deformation.

There are a number of major regional fault structures in the Rice Lake area. The major

structures that trend in a generally east-west direction are the most prominent and

movement along these structures has developed conjugate shear zones that splay off to

the north and south. In addition there has probably been thrust faulting in the early stages

of the deformation of the area, however, these structures are difficult to identify.

All of the major gold occurrences in the Rice Lake area occur as quartz veins or quartz

vein systems related to structural deformation (folding and faulting) of the host rocks.

See Section 4.2 for a discussion of deposit types/models and Section 4.3 for descriptions

of the geology and mineralisation on the Bissett Mine property