CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
11 Canada (Alberta) 56.40.00 N -- 119.30.00 W Clear Hills; Peace River 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): Clear Hills; Peace River
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Alberta
NTS map data: 084D12 (Clear Prairie)
084D11 (Worsley)
Deposit clan (type): ironstone
Deposit (sub) types: Minette type
Geologic province: Canadian Interior Platform
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Late Cretaceous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone (oolitic)
Individual lithologies:sandstone (oolitic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Smoky Group
Mineralogy: (ore): goethite, siderite
References:
Bertram, E. F.; Mellon, G. B., 1975
Peace River Iron Deposits
Information Series, Alberta Research Council, Publication code 75, 53 p.

Geomatics, Geological Survey of Canada, 1999
Geographical Names of Canada
Internet

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


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