CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
121 Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) 52.59.01 N -- 066.56.41 W Wabush 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): Wabush 3
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador
NTS map data: 023B15 (Flora Lake)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Lake Superior type
Deposit status: deposit; Status comments: planning stages
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Grenville Province
Geologic district: Labrador trough
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: orogenic belt sediments
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; iron formation
Individual lithologies:metataconite
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

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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Associated group(s): Carol Lake Project (4)

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