CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
9 United States (Minnesota) 47.32.00 N -- 092.20.00 W Biwabik 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): Biwabik
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Minnesota
NTS map data: 052A05 (Kakabeka Falls)
052A06 (Thunder Bay)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Lake Superior type
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Southern Province
Geologic district: Penokean Orogen
Commodities: Fe
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

Morey, G. B., 1999
High-grade Iron Ore deposits of the Mesabi Range, Minnesota; Product of a Continental-scale Proterozoic Ground-water Flow System.
Economic Geology, Volume 94, p. 133 - 142

Associated group(s): Mesabi (15)

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