CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
4 Canada (Northwest Territories) 64.07.52 N -- 117.06.44 W Fab Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-03
   
Deposit group name(s): Fab
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories; Nearest community: Yellowknife (200 km 320)
NTS map data: 086C03 (Rae Lake)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Geologic province: Wopmay Orogen, Northwestern Canadian Shield
Geologic district: Great Bear Magmatic Zone
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Early Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal arc; convergent; Formal name: Great Bear Continental Arc (host rocks)
continental marginal suture zone (host rocks)
References:
Gandhi, S. S., 1988
Volcano-Plutonic Setting of U-Cu Bearing Magnetite Veins of FAB Claims, Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories
in Current Research 1988, Canadian Shield, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, 1988-C, p. 177 - 187

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

Associated deposit(s): Fab 1 (Main) Showing (495), Fab 2 Showing (496), Fab 3 Showing (497), Fab 4 Showing (498), Fab 5 Showing (499), Fab North Vein Zone (500)

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