CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
8 Canada (Ontario) 48.25.00 N -- 089.30.00 W Gunflint 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): Gunflint
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario
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
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Proterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: orogenic belt sediments
References:
Gross, G. A., 1963
Distribution of Iron Deposits, Ekwan River, Superior Structural Province, Ontario
Geological Survey of Canada, Preliminary Series, 18-1963, Scale 1:1000000

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 group(s): Gunflint Ranges (3)

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