CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
50 Canada (Ontario) 48.49 N -- 091.36 W Steep Rock 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): Steep Rock
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario
NTS map data: 052B13 (Atikokan)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Algoma type
Deposit status: past producer
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Superior Province
Commodities: Fe
Mineralogy: (ore): hematite, goethite
References:
Gross, G. A., 1965
Geology of Iron Deposits in Canada, Volume I : General Geology and Evaluation of Iron Deposits
Economic Geology Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 22, 181 p.

Gross, G. A., 2009
Iron formation in Canada, genesis and geochemistry
Open File, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 5987, 164 p.

Lang, A. H.; Goodwin, A. M.; Mulligan, R.; Whitmore, D. R. E.; Gross, G. A.; Boyle, R. W.; Johnston, A. G.; Chamberlain, J. A.; Rose, E. R., 1970
Economic Minerals of the Canadian Shield
V, in Geology and Economic Minerals of Canada (5th Edition), Edited by Douglas, R. J. W., Economic Geology Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Number 1, 838 p, p. 152 - 226

Sinclair, W. D.; Jen, L.-S., 1999
Mines and Mineral Deposits of Canada
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