The Kiena Complex project lies within the Abitibi Subprovince of the Archean Superior craton,
eastern Canada. The Kiena Complex project straddles the limit between the southern part of the Abitibi Subprovince and the northern part of the Pontiac Subprovince. In this region, the Cadillac Tectonic Zone (CTZ) marks the separation between the two. Fromsouth to north, the Project is underlain by the lithologies of the Pontiac Group (PO), the Piché Group (PG), the Héva Formation (HF), the Val-d’Or Formation (VDF), the Jacola Formation (JF) and the La Motte-Vassan Formation (LVF).
The region has several large-scale strike faults and/or shear zones, trending W to WNW and dipping steeply to the north. They are, from south to north: the Cadillac Tectonic Zone (CTZ), the Parfouru Fault (PF), the Marbenite Fault (MF), the Norbenite Fault (NF), the Callahan Fault (CF), the K Shear Zone (KSZ), and the Rivière Héva Fault (RHF). The Quebec Wesdome Project is cut by all of them. These major structures contain dykes or stocks of monzonitic or tonalitic composition with highly variable ages (pre, syn- or post-tectonic) that are spatially associated with several gold mines (Norlartic, Marban, Kiena, Sullivan, Goldex, Siscoe, Joubi, Sigma and Lamaque). The observed diversity in the styles and ages of gold mineralization related to these large-scale strike faults and/orshearzones demonstratesthatseveral distinct episodes of mineralization occur.
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