CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
45 Canada (Ontario) 48.00 N -- 084.45.00 W MacLeod; Helen; Sir James 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): MacLeod; Helen; Sir James
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario
NTS map data: 042C02 (Hawk Junction)
041N15 (Michipicoten Harbour)
Deposit clan (type): enriched iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Algoma type
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Superior craton
Geologic district: Wawa greenstone belt
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Archean (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: orogenic belt volcanism
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:rhyolite

(2) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks
Individual lithologies:andesite

(3) sedimentary; carbonate-chert
Individual lithologies:carbonate
chert
Mineralogy: (associated): pyrite, pyrrhotite
(ore): hematite, goethite, siderite
References:
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
Internet

Associated group(s): Michipicoten (2)

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