Rocks that melted under high pressure and temperature and cooled. Credit: NTGS.

South Rae Mapping Project

South Rae Mapping Project - Publications

B. Neil. 2017.  Depositional age, provenance and tectonic significance of the Porter Lake and Lynx Lake outliers, south Rae craton, Northwest Territories. Simon Fraser University. Unpublished B.Sc. thesis. Available upon request.

B. Mowbray. 2016. Geochemistry Petrology and Aeromagnetic mapping of the Orpheus Dykes, South Rae, Northwest Territories, Canada. Carleton University. Unpublished B.Sc. thesis. Available upon request.

Thiessen, E., Gibson, D., Regis., D., and Pehrsson, S.J. 2017. Deformation and extensional exhumation of Paleoproterozoic high-pressure granulites along the Wholdaia Lake shear zone, south Rae craton, Northwest Territories. Submitted to Lithosphere.

P. Acosta-Góngora, S. Pehrsson, H. Sandeman, E. Martel, T. Peterson. 2017. The Ferguson Lake deposit: an example of Ni-Cu-Co-PGE mineralization in a back-arc basin setting? Submitted to Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.

D. Regis, P. Acosta-Góngora, W.J. Davis, B. Knox, S.J. Pehrsson, E. Martel, L. Hulbert. 2017. Evidence for Neoarchean Ni-Cu-bearing mafic intrusions along a major lithospheric structure: a case study from the south Rae craton (Canada). Precambrian Research volume 302, p. 312-339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.09.026

P. Acosta-Góngora, E. Martel, and S. Pehrsson. 2017. Assay results from the South Rae mapping project (2015 and 2016 field seasons), Geological Survey of Canada Open Report 2017-XX. In GSC publication process.

Martel, E. Percival, J. Pehrsson, S.J., Regis, D., Agosta-Góngora, P., Thiessen, E., Jamieson, Neil, B., and Knox, B.2017. Geology and mineral potential of the southern Rae craton, NTS sheets 75G and H, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Open Report 8194. In GSC publication process.

Lauzon, G. and Campbell, J.E. 2017, Surficial geology, Wholdaia Lake south, Northwest Territories, (NTS 75A-south); Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map xxx, (ed. prelim.); 1 sheet, doi:10.4095/xxxxxxx 1:100 000 scale map. In GSC publication process.

Martel, E., Pehrsson, S.J. Acosta-Góngora, P., Thiessen, E., Jamieson, D. 2017.  Preliminary observations of the geology of Wholdaia Lake and Abitau Lake map sheet (NTS 75A and B), south Rae province, NWT. NWT Open File 2017-20, Report and digital files. In NTGS publication process.

Campbell, J.E., Lauzon, G., Dyke, A.S., Haiblen, A.M., Roy, M. 2016. Report of 2016 activities for the regional surficial geological mapping of the south Rae Craton, southeast NWT: GEM 2 South Rae Quaternary and Bedrock Project; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8143, 16 pages, doi.org/10.4095/299391

 Jamieson, D; Acosta-Góngora, P; Knox, B K; Pehrsson, S J; Lin, S. 2017. Deformation history of the Black Bay Fault and associated mineralization, Northwest Territories; Geological Survey of Canada, Scientific Presentation 69, 1 sheet, https:/doi.org/10.4095/304197

Acosta-Góngora, P; Pehrsson, S J; Martel, E; Lauzon, G; Jamieson, D. 2017. South Rae Project: preliminary field observations (2015) and lake sediment analysis, Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan. Geological Survey of Canada, Scientific Presentation 67, 47 pages. doi.org/10.4095/302765

Thiessen, E.J., Regis, D., and Gibson, H.D., 2017. U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Paleoproterozoic Wholdaia Lake shear zone, south Rae craton, Northwest Territories; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8193, 1 .zip file. doi:10.4095/300655

Regis, D., Martel, E., Davis, W.J., Pehrsson, S.J., 2017. U-Pb zircon geochronology of metaplutonic rocks across the southern Rae province, Northwest Territories; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8254, 37 p. doi:10.4095/302772.

Percival, J. Pehrsson, S.J., Campbell, J.E., Martel, E., Agosta-Gongora, P., Thiessen, E., Jamieson, 2016. Report of 2016 activities for the geologic and metallogenic framework of the South Rae Craton, southeast Northwest Territories: GEM 2 South Rae quaternary and bedrock project, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8182, 24 p. doi.org/10.4095/299469

 M.W. McCurdy, S.J. Pehrsson, H. Falck, S.J.A. Day, and J.E. Campbell. 2016. Geochemical Data for Lake Sediments and Surface Waters, Abitau Lake Area, Northwest Territories (NTS 75-B). Geological Survey of Canada Open File 8082. 19 pages. doi.org/10.4095/299389

Pehrsson, S.J., Campbell, J.E., Martel, E., McCurdy, M.W., Agosta-Gongora, P., Thiessen, E., Jamieson, D., Lauzon, G., Buller, G., Falck, H. and Dyke, A.S. 2015. Report of 2015 activities for the geologic and metallogenic framework of the South Rae Craton, southeast Northwest Territories: GEM 2 South Rae quaternary and bedrock project, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7958, 24 p. doi.org/10.4095/297387

Davis, W. J., Pehrsson, S. J., and Percival, J. A., 2015. Results of a U-Pb zircon geochronology transect across the southern Rae craton, Northwest Territories, Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7655, 74 p. doi.org/10.4095/295610

Pehrsson, S. J., Currie, M., Ashton, K. E., Harper, C. T., Paul, D., Pana, D., Berman, R. G., Bostock, H., Corkery, T., Jefferson, C. W. and Tella, S., 2014. Bedrock geology compilation and regional synthesis of south Rae and parts of Hearne domains, Churchill Province, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, Manitoba and Alberta; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5744, 2 sheets. doi.org/10.4095/292232

Campbell, J.E. and Eagles, S. 2014. Report of 2014 Activities for the Geologic and Metallogenic Framework of the South Rae Craton, Southeast Northwest Territories: Reconnaissance Surficial and Bedrock Fieldwork in the GEM 2 South Rae Project Area; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7701, 7p. doi:10.4095/295463.

Pehrsson, S. J., Percival, J. A., Davis, W. J., McCurdy, M. W., Berman, R. G., Hillary, E. M., Kiss, F., MacKinnon, A. and Jefferson, C. W. 2014. Operation GEM South Rae: Reconnaissance geology of the most poorly known part of the Churchill Province, Northwest Territories and Nunavut; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7410, 25 p. doi.org/10.4095/293762