CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Wiegand Island (locality); Belcher Mining Corporation - Area C (occurrence)
Longitude / Latitude: -79.23374 / 56.65263
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Subprovince or locality: Belcher Islands; Nearest community: Wiegand Island
NTS map data: 034D11 (Eskimo Harbour)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Lake Superior type
Deposit status: anomaly-geophysical; Status comments: Centre of airborne magnetic anomaly
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Trans-Hudson orogen
Deposit object located: centre of geophysical anomaly
Commodities: Fe
Links to other databases: NUMIN; Key value: 034DNW0001
Geophysical-chemical signature: Signature type: Airborne Magnetometer; Response type: negative (strong)
References:
Lundberg, H., 1955
Maps of Airborne Geophysical Surveys, Belcher Islands (017037)
Mineral Assessment Report, Lundberg Explorations Ltd (operator), Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Publication code 017037, 1 maps.


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