CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
208 Canada (Nunavut) 69.41.48 N -- 076.27.48 W Eqe Bay - West of north bay Cu; Pb; Zn
 
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): Eqe Bay - West of north bay
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Subprovince or locality: Central Baffin Island
NTS map data: 037C09 (Eqe Bay)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Algoma type; Cu, Pb, Zn mineralization with iron-formation in supracrustal volcanic and siliciclastic belt of Archean age.
Deposit status: showing
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Rae craton
Geologic district: Foxe fold belt
Commodities: Cu; Pb; Zn
Geological ages: Archean (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; iron formation
Mineralogy: (gangue): cordierite, staurolite, garnet
(mineralization / leached cap): chalcopyrite
(mineralization / mineralization zone): sphalerite, galena
Links to other databases: NUMIN; Key value: 037CNE0014
References:
de Kemp, E. A.; Scott, D. J., 1998
Digital geoscience compilation of North Baffin Island and North Melville Peninsula, Northwest Territories
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File, CD-ROM

Morgan, W. C., 1982
Geology, Koch Island, Northwest Territories
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3634, Scale 1:500000


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