ABSTRACT
The Meadowbank gold deposits are located in the Archean Woodburn Lake group of the western Churchill Province. The stratigraphy, that hosts the deposits, consists of felsic to intermediate volcaniclastic rocks and interbedded iron formation. The stratigraphic sequence is polydeformed with four phases of deformation recognized regionally; two of which have substantially modified the geometry of the strata. The initial phase of deformation was a progressive transposition of the stratigraphy with tight to isoclinal folding which culminated in low angle high strain zones. This progressive deformation event appears to have controlled the distribution of gold mineralization. Overprinting, NE-SW shallow plunging folds further modified the geometry of the mineralized body.
