CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
153 Canada (Nunavut) 56.10.00 N -- 076.30.00 W Richmond Gulf 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): Richmond Gulf
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut
NTS map data: 034C02 (Belanger Island)
034C01 (Ile Cairn)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Lake Superior type
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Churchill
Geologic district: Trans-Hudson orogen
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
References:
Gross, G. A., 1965
Geology of Iron Deposits in Canada, Volume I : General Geology and Evaluation of Iron Deposits
Economic Geology Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 22, 181 p.

Associated group(s): Belcher Islands (9)

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