CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
21 Canada (Nunavut) 69.40.46 N -- 076.48.49 W Eqe Bay occurrences Fe
 
Database name: Canadian Iron Formation
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: G. A. Gross and E. M. Hillary
Release date: 2014-08-21
   
Deposit group name(s): Eqe Bay occurrences (occurrence group)
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
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Rae craton
Geologic district: Foxe fold belt
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Archean (mineralization)
Archean (host rocks)
References:
Anonymous Editor(s)), 1980
Non-hydrocarbon Mineral Resource Potential of Part of Northern Canada
Open File, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, 716, 376 p., 2 maps.

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1969; Component: mineralization zone; 350 million long tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: geological resource
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 39 percent
Reference: Boyd, J. A., 1969: Report of Geological and Geophysical Investigations of the EQE Bay Claims Group, Eqe Bay, Baffin Island (019501); Mineral Assessment Report, BoydJA (operator), Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Publication code 019501, 5 maps.
Percent weights allocated to camp: 100.0%
Associated deposit(s): Eqe Bay Iron Zone #1 (210), Eqe Bay Iron Zone #2 (211), Eqe Bay Iron Zone #3 (212), Eqe Bay Iron Zone #4 (213), Eqe Bay Iron Zone #5 (214), Eqe Bay Iron Zone #6 (215), Eqe Bay Iron Zone #7 (216), Eqe Bay Iron Zone #1A (259), Eqe Bay (282)

Generated 2014-09-03 13:02:03 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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