Introduction to Special Issue 2 on the NATMAP Shield Margin Project: The Flin Flon Belt, Trans-Hudson Orogen, Manitoba and Saskatchewan

The Shield Margin Project of the National Geoscience Mapping Program (NATMA P) resulted in a new understanding of the Paleoproterozoic Flin Flon Belt ( Manitoba and Saskatchewan) in four dimensions. A multidisciplinary approach was utilized in the NATMAP project, based on partnerships with government, university, and private sector geoscientists, and close cooperation with t he Lithoprobe's Trans-Hudson Orogen Transect. Research areas spanned from b edrock and surficial geoscience, to crustal and mantle geophysics, to high precision U-Pb geochronology and tracer isotope studies. This Special Issue contains nine papers covering a wide variety of topics related to the NATM AP Shield Margin Project, including volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposi ts in the Flin Flon and Snow Lake camps; structural geology of the Flin Flo n townsite and southern flank of the Kisseynew Domain; geochronology and th e U-Pb systematics of monazite in metasedimentary rocks; and the geoelectri cal and crustal conductivity structure of the Flin Flon Belt.