CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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 name(s): Mesabi
Longitude / Latitude: -93.10000 / 47.40000
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Minnesota
NTS map data: 023J15 (Lac Knob)
Deposit clan (type): enriched iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Lake Superior type
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Southern Province
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: orogenic belt sediments
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; iron formation
Individual lithologies:iron formation
Host rock stratigraphy:Biwabik Iron Formation

(2) sedimentary; iron formation
Individual lithologies:taconite
Mineralogy: hematite, goethite
References:
Morey, G. B., 1999
High-grade Iron Ore deposits of the Mesabi Range, Minnesota; Product of a Continental-scale Proterozoic Ground-water Flow System.
Economic Geology, Volume 94, p. 133 - 142


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