CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
188 Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) 46.56.00 N -- 055.20.00 W Mount Calapoose ; Placentia West County 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): 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; mudstone
Individual lithologies:shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Little Lawn Formation
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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