CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
4 Canada (Ontario) 46.51 N -- 081.02.00 W Moose Mountain; Iron Lake; Capreol 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): Moose Mountain; Iron Lake; Capreol
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Ontario
NTS map data: 041I14 (Venetian Lake)
Deposit clan (type): iron formation
Deposit (sub) types: Algoma type
Geologic province: Canadian Shield
Geologic subprovince: Superior craton
Commodities: Fe
Tectonic setting: orogenic belt volcanism
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; iron formation
Individual lithologies:taconite
References:
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

Associated mine(s): Moose Mountain Mine (4)

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