The age and origin of the North Shore Plutons in the Rae Province, Goldfields area, Saskatchewan

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: O'Hanley, David S., Kyser, T. Kurtis, Sibbald, Thomas I. I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1994
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Goldfields; Murmac Bay; Lake Athabasca
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e94-123; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e94-123

The North Shore Plutons are peraluminous granitoids emplaced within the Murmac Bay Group supracrustals exposed on the north shore of Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan. 207 Pb/ 206 Pb ages obtained using the single-zircon Pb-evaporation technique indicate emplacement at 1952 ± 18 Ma, coeval with Taltson m...