CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
1 Canada (Quebec) 54.48.00 N -- 066.53.00 W Knob Lake; Schefferville; Central Labrador Fe
 
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 group name(s): Knob Lake (occurrence group); Schefferville (occurrence group); Central Labrador (district)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Quebec
NTS map data: 023J15 (Lac Knob)
Deposit clan (type): enriched iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Lake Superior type
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Churchill
Geologic district: Labrador trough
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Proterozoic (host rocks)
References:
Gross, G. A., 1968
Geology of Iron Deposits in Canada, Volume III : Iron Ranges of the Labrador Geosyncline
Economic Geology Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 22, 179 p.

Gross, G. A., 1996
Enriched Iron-Formation
4, Section Residually Enriched Deposits, 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. 82 - 92

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

Associated deposit(s): Knob Lake (6), Wishart 1 (18), Ferriman 1 (134), Star Creek (135), Denault (136), Burnt Creek (137), Ruth Lake 3 (138), Goodwood (163), Woollett (165), James Mine (1005254), Redmond (1005264), Houston (1005265), Howse (1005266), Astray (1005267), Kivivik (1005268), Denault (1005269)

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