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Rice Lake Greenstone Belt

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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 have developed conjugate shear zones that splay off to the north and south. The major shear zone is the Normandy Creek Shear that radiates off the Wanipigow Fault.

All of the major gold occurrences in the Rice Lake area occur as quartz veins or quartz vein systems related to structural deformation (folding or faulting) of the host rocks.