CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
138 Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) 54.48.13 N -- 066.52.12 W Ruth Lake 3 Fe
 
Database name: Canadian Iron Formation
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: G. A. Gross and E. M. Hillary
Release date: 2014-10-01
   
Deposit name(s): Ruth Lake 3
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador
NTS map data: 023J15 (Lac Knob)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Lake Superior type
Deposit status: past producer; Status comments: abandoned
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Churchill
Geologic district: Labrador trough
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Proterozoic (host rocks)
References:
Gross, G. A., 1968
Geology of Iron Deposits in Canada, Volume III : Iron Ranges of the Labrador Geosyncline
Economic Geology Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 22, 179 p.

Gross, G. A., 1996
Stratiform Iron
3, in Geology of Canadian Mineral Deposit Types, Edited by Eckstrand, O. R.; Sinclair, W. D.; Thorpe, R. I., Geology of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Steet, Ottawa, Ontario, Number 8, 640 p., 1 maps, p. 41 - 54

Associated mine(s): Ruth Lake (12), Gill (14)
Associated group(s): Knob Lake (1)

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