MVT Project (Project Leader: W. Allan Turner)

A collaborative study to describe and delineate the origin, distribution and potential for carbonate-hosted (MVT) Pb-Zn deposits in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin was undertaken in 2000 by C.S. Lord Northern Geoscience Centre, Alberta Geological Survey, and GSC-Calgary (through their Targeted Geoscience Initiative).

The study area in the Northwest Territories includes the decommissioned Pine Point minesite, the area between Hay River and Buffalo River, and the Windy Point (north shore of Great Slave Lake across from Hay River) and Hay West (west of Hay River) areas.

C.S. Lord Northern Geoscience Centre products pertaining to this project to be released in 2002 and 2003 include:

1. A study of the extent and thickness of white sparry dolomite that is known to be associated with the lead-zinc deposits of Pine Point (Janicki);
2. A hydrodynamic study of the Great Slave Plain that mapped current-day formation water flow direction and examined permeability and aquifer continuity of the middle Devonian section (Janicki);
3. Seismic-time structure maps of the top of Slave Point and basement surfaces, generated by the interpretation of reflection seismic data, as well as a time-thickness map of the interval between these two surfaces that shows maximum possible pay thickness (MacLean);
4. Great Slave Reef (GSR) Project Drillhole Database, a comprehensive digital compilation that includes ~ 900 drillholes with the associated geochemical data, drill logs, and cross-sectional maps (compiled by Turner);
5. A paper examining the differences in the reflectance spectra between mineralized and unmineralized core for distinct facies from the Pine Point minesite (Turner, Laamrani, & Rivard); and
6. A Current Research publication that provides the results of a regional structural study that was carried out over the 2002 field season in the Hay River area (Turner & Gal).

In addition to these studies, Turner is undertaking collaboration with:

1. University of Alberta researchers in the area of halogen chemistry analysis of fluids (Dr. Sarah Gleeson) and radiogenic age dating (Dr. Robert Creaser); and
"2. Geological Survey of Canada on fluid inclusion microthermometric studies (Dr. Nick Wilson) and radiogenic isotope analysis (Dr. Suzanne Paradis)."