CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
545 Canada (Northwest Territories) 63.34.00 N -- 116.35.50 W Ron Magnetite Deposit Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Ron Magnetite Deposit
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories; Nearest community: Yellowknife
NTS map data: 085N10 (Bea Lake)
Deposit clan (type): Cloncurry-type
Deposit (sub) types: stratabound tabular and lensoid bodies; magnetite beds interlayered with measiltstones and calc-silicates of the Treasure Lake Group; locally massive bodies; intruded by dykes and small plutons of the Great Bear magmatic zone; Reference: Gandhi, S. S., 1992: Magnetite Deposits in Metasiltstones of the Snare Group at Hump Lake, Northwest Territories; in Current Research 1992, Part A, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 92-1A, p. 225 - 235
Deposit status: deposit
Geologic province: Wopmay Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Geologic district: Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Deposit object located: main outcrop
Commodities: Fe
References:
Gandhi, S. S., 1992
Magnetite Deposits in Metasiltstones of the Snare Group at Hump Lake, Northwest Territories
in Current Research 1992, Part A, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 92-1A, p. 225 - 235

Gandhi, S. S., 1994
Geological Setting and Genetic Aspects of Mineral Occurrences in the Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories
in Studies of Rare-Metal Deposits in the Northwest Territories, Edited by Sinclair, W. D.; Richardson, D. G., Bulletin, Geological Survey of Canada, 475, 96 p, p. 63 - 96

Gandhi, S. S.; Mortensen, J. K.; Prasad, N.; van Breemen, O., 2001
Magmatic evolution of the southern Great Bear continental arc, northwestern Canadian Shield: geochronological constraints
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 38, p. 767 - 785


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