CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
15 Canada (British Columbia) 49.32 N -- 125.33 W Iron Hill 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): Iron Hill
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: British Columbia; Subprovince or locality: Vancouver Island
NTS map data: 092F12 (Buttle Lake)
Deposit clan (type): intrusion associated
Deposit (sub) types: skarn
Geologic province: Canadian Cordillera
Commodities: Fe
Tectonic setting: orogenic belt intrusion
Country rocks: (1) granodiorite
Mineralogy: (ore): magnetite
References:
Gross, G. A., 1996
Skarn Iron
20, Section Skarn 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. 489 - 495

Sinclair, W. D.; Jen, L.-S., 1999
Mines and Mineral Deposits of Canada
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