Database name: |
Canadian Iron Formation |
Custodial agency: |
Geological Survey of Canada |
Compilers: |
G. A. Gross and E. M. Hillary |
Release date: |
2014-10-01 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Eqe Bay - West of north bay |
Political location(s): |
Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Subprovince or locality: Central Baffin Island |
NTS map data: |
037C09 (Eqe Bay) |
Deposit clan (type): |
iron formation |
Deposit (sub) types: |
Algoma type; Cu, Pb, Zn mineralization with iron-formation in supracrustal volcanic and siliciclastic belt of Archean age. |
Deposit status: |
showing |
Geologic province: |
Canadian Shield |
Geologic subprovince: |
Rae craton |
Geologic district: |
Foxe fold belt |
Commodities: |
Cu; Pb; Zn |
Geological ages: |
Archean (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; iron formation |
Mineralogy: |
(gangue): cordierite, staurolite, garnet (mineralization / leached cap): chalcopyrite (mineralization / mineralization zone): sphalerite, galena |
Links to other databases: |
NUMIN; Key value: 037CNE0014 |
References: |
de Kemp, E. A.; Scott, D. J., 1998 |
Digital geoscience compilation of North Baffin Island and North Melville Peninsula, Northwest Territories |
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File, CD-ROM |
Morgan, W. C., 1982 |
Geology, Koch Island, Northwest Territories |
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3634, Scale 1:500000 |
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