THe Moose Creek deposit is located on the northeast slope at the head of Moose Creek valley.

Nepheline syenite of the Devonian or Carboniferous Ice River Complex intrudes folded and faulted limestone, quartzite and shale of the Cambrian Ottertail Formation. The intrusive rocks are mainly jacupirangite (an ultramafic plutonic rock that is part of the ijolite series and composed chiefly of titanaugite and magnetite) with a rim of ijolite-urtite. Irregular pegmatitic dikes and lenses occur in all rocks. Pegmatite minerals include calcite, biotite, pyroxene, magnetite-ilmenite and schorlomite, with minor pyrite, pyrrhotite, nepheline and accessories.

Ilmenite-magnetite mineralization, mainly as sphene and magnetite, occurs in quartzite, pegmatite and intrusive rocks. Assays range to 13.2 per cent TiO2 and 20.6 per cent iron (Assessment Report 3389). Knopite, a cerium-bearing perovskite, is present in a pegmatite dike. Sodalite occurs as veins in the intrusion. Analysis for columbium/niobium yielded 0.67 per cent Cb2O5 (Assessment Report 3389).

A radioactive northeast-trending shear zone, 1200 metres to the south, yielded up to 0.019 per cent uranium. Other commodities include thorium (up to 0.077 per cent ThO2 over 3 metres) and traces of rare earths, chiefly lanthanum and ytterbium (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1954, page 150).

Ilmenite-magnetite bearing gravels and sands occupy the valley along Moose Creek. A 10 by 300 metre area assayed up to 8.2 per cent TiO2 (Assessment Report 3389).

A recent bulk sampling and analysis program on a large talus slope, developed from the erosion of the ultramafic intrusion (jacupirangite), has resulted in reserves of magnetite contained in the broken talus material. It appears that the magnetite-bearing rocks (segregation zones in the intrusion) are more friable than the hostrocks, resulting in talus in which the large, coarse material, up to large boulder size, contains very little magnetite. The fine fraction (minus 4 mesh) contains substantially all of the minerals of commercial interest. Proven (measured geological) reserves are 205,000 tonnes, indicated reserves are 362,000 tonnes and inferred (resource) reserves are 1.9 million tonnes of magnetite respectively, averaging 5.5 per cent magnetite at a cutoff grade of 2.5 per cent (Prospectus, Moose Creek Magnetite Project, St. Paul Minerals Ltd., February 12, 1991).

The proposed mining method is an earth moving operation utilizing bulldozers and front-end loaders (open pit in unconsolidated material (talus)).