The South Bay copper-zinc-silver orebody, 52 miles east of Red Lake in northwestern Ontario, lies in refolded siliceous volcanic rocks near the close of an Archaean volcanic cycle. The rock mass mechanics events at South Bay mainly happened during the endogenesis and uplift of the earth's crust at the Birch-Uchi greenstone belt. After the uplift the geological history of this region was of little significance for the structure of the ore-body. The paleographic properties of the mineral deposits have been deformed by two phases of geological events; namely, first, Rotational Stress — confined pressure (geometry of torsion structures) and, second, Spherical Stress — compressive pressure (geometry of ellipsoidic structures). And, finally the structure formation in the rock mass induced natural stresses which have components determined by the geometry of the deformations.