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): | Belcher Islands | ||||||
Longitude / Latitude: | -79.00000 / 56.25000 | ||||||
Political location(s): | Canada; Province or state: Nunavut | ||||||
NTS map data: | 034D06 (East Arm) 034D03 (Upper Wetalltok Bay) 034D07 (Cape Bartlett) 034D02 (Fairweather Sound) | ||||||
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: | Proterozoic (host rocks) | ||||||
Tectonic setting: | orogenic belt sediments | ||||||
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