CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
189 Canada (Ontario) 48.20.00 N -- 089.49.00 W Whitefish 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): Whitefish
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario; Nearest community: Thunder Bay
NTS map data: 052A05 (Kakabeka Falls)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Algoma type
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Southern Province
Commodities: Fe
Tectonic setting: continental shelf
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; iron formation
Individual lithologies:iron formation
Host rock stratigraphy:Gunflint Formation
References:
Geomatics, Geological Survey of Canada, 1999
Geographical Names of Canada
Internet

Gross, G. A., 1963
Distribution of Iron Deposits, Ogoki River, Superior Structural Province, Ontario
Geological Survey of Canada, Preliminary Series, 19-1963, Scale 1:1000000


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