CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
79 Canada (Nunavut) 56.15 N -- 076.40 W Nastapoka Islands 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): Nastapoka Islands
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut
NTS map data: 034C07 (Anderson Island)
034C02 (Belanger Island)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Lake Superior type
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Churchill
Geologic district: Trans-Hudson orogen
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate (manganese)
Individual lithologies:manganese carbonate
References:
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

Sinclair, W. D.; Jen, L.-S., 1999
Mines and Mineral Deposits of Canada
Internet

Associated group(s): Belcher Islands (9)

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