CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
209 Canada (Nunavut) 69.36.00 N -- 076.58.00 W West of Harbour Bay Cu
 
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): West of Harbour Bay (occurrence)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Subprovince or locality: Central Baffin Island
NTS map data: 037C09 (Eqe Bay)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Algoma type; Cu mineralization with sulphide facies iron-formation in supracrustal volcanic and siliciclastic belt of Archean age.
Deposit status: showing
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Rae craton
Geologic district: Foxe fold belt
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Archean (host rocks)
Mineralogy: (mineralization / mineralization zone): chalcopyrite, malachite, pyrite
Links to other databases: NUMIN; Key value: 037CNE0015
References:
de Kemp, E. A.; Scott, D. J., 1998
Digital geoscience compilation of North Baffin Island and North Melville Peninsula, Northwest Territories
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File, CD-ROM

Morgan, W. C., 1982
Geology, Koch Island, Northwest Territories
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3634, Scale 1:500000


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