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): |
Mount Calapoose ; Placentia West County |
Political location(s): |
Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador |
NTS map data: |
001L14 (St Lawrence) |
Deposit clan (type): |
iron formation |
Deposit (sub) types: |
Algoma type |
Geologic province: |
Appalachian Orogen |
Commodities: |
Fe |
Geological ages: |
Middle Cambrian (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
orogenic belt volcanism |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstoneIndividual lithologies: | shale | Host rock stratigraphy: | Little Lawn Formation |
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Mineralogy: |
(ore): magnetite, hematite, siderite |
References: |
Gross, G. A., 1967 |
Geology of Iron Deposits in Canada, Volume II : Iron Deposits in the Appalachian and Grenville Regions of Canada |
Economic Geology Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 22, 111 p. |
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