Database name: |
Canadian Iron Formation |
Custodial agency: |
Geological Survey of Canada |
Compilers: |
G. A. Gross and E. M. Hillary |
Release date: |
2014-08-21 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Mesabi |
Longitude / Latitude: |
-93.10000 / 47.40000 |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: Minnesota |
NTS map data: |
023J15 (Lac Knob) |
Deposit clan (type): |
enriched iron formation |
Deposit (sub) types: |
Lake Superior type |
Geologic province: |
Canadian Shield |
Geologic subprovince: |
Southern Province |
Commodities: |
Fe |
Geological ages: |
Paleoproterozoic (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
orogenic belt sediments |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; iron formationIndividual lithologies: | iron formation | Host rock stratigraphy: | Biwabik Iron Formation |
(2) sedimentary; iron formationIndividual lithologies: | taconite |
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Mineralogy: |
hematite, goethite |
References: |
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 |
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