CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
10 Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) 47.38 N -- 052.58.00 W Wabana 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): Wabana
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland and Labrador
NTS map data: 001N10 (St John's)
Deposit clan (type): ironstone
Deposit (sub) types: Clinton type
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Avalon
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Early Ordovician (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental shelf
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; iron formation
Individual lithologies:iron formation (oolitic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Wabana Group
Mineralogy: (ore): hematite, siderite, chamosite
References:
Gross, G. A., 1967
Geology of Iron Deposits in Canada, Volume II : Iron Deposits in the Appalachian and Grenville Regions of Canada
Economic Geology Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 22, 111 p.

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

Lang, A. H.; Goodwin, A. M.; Mulligan, R.; Whitmore, D. R. E.; Gross, G. A.; Boyle, R. W.; Johnston, A. G.; Chamberlain, J. A.; Rose, E. R., 1970
Economic Minerals of the Canadian Shield
V, in Geology and Economic Minerals of Canada (5th Edition), Edited by Douglas, R. J. W., Economic Geology Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Number 1, 838 p, p. 152 - 226

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

Production data: Report period: from 1895; 70 million long tons ore; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 51.6 percent
Reference: Gross, G. A., 1967: Geology of Iron Deposits in Canada, Volume II : Iron Deposits in the Appalachian and Grenville Regions of Canada; Economic Geology Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 22, 111 p.

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