The Wanipigow River Plutonic Complex, which forms the northern boundary of the Rice

Lake greenstone belt, is composed predominantly of hornblende and biotite-bearing

quartz dioritic, granodioritic and locally quartz monzonitic intrusions and gneisses.

Several large masses of gabbro are also present in the region. Historically this area has

been considered to be basically devoid of significant areas of volcanic terrain, however,

the Wallace Lake - Siderock Lake area (Theyer, 1985 and Sasseville, 1999) are definitely

underlain by Garner Lake Assemblage volcanic rocks. Howe’s site visit (2000) to the

adjacent Wildcat’s Poundmaker property also indicates that the gold-bearing quartz vein

is hosted within carbonate altered mafic volcanic rocks rather than quartz diorite and fine

grained mafic dykes as suggested by previous data (Richardson and Ostry 1996 citing

Weber 1971)....Traps7