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4.1 Canada. 4.2 Greenland. 4.3 United States. ... This is a list of greenstone belts. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2010 ...
Abitibi greenstone belt (Quebec/Ontario, Canada) Bird River greenstone belt (Manitoba, Canada) Elmers Rock greenstone belt (Wyoming, USA) Flin Flon greenstone belt (Manitoba/Saskatchewan, Canada) Hope Bay greenstone belt (in the western portion of Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada) Hunt River greenstone belt (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
The Abitibi greenstone belt is a 2,800-to-2,600-million-year-old greenstone belt that spans across the Ontario–Quebec border in Canada. [1] It is mostly made of volcanic rocks , but also includes ultramafic rocks , mafic intrusions , granitoid rocks , and early and middle Precambrian sediments.
The 2,677 million year old Abitibi greenstone belt in Ontario and Quebec is one of the largest Archean greenstone belts on Earth and one of the youngest parts of the Superior craton which sequentially forms part of the Canadian Shield. [6] Ontario's metallic mineral wealth such as gold, copper and zinc comes from the Abitibi/Wawa subprovince. [5]
Map of the Hunt River and Florence Lake greenstone belts. The Hunt River greenstone belt, also called the Hunt River volcanic belt, is a northeast trending Mesoarchean greenstone belt in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, located along the coast of Labrador about 25 km (16 mi) west of the town of Hopedale.
Open pit mine in Val-d'Or, Quebec. The Abitibi gold belt is a region of Canada that extends from Wawa, Ontario to Val-d'Or, Quebec.Located within the mineral-rich Abitibi greenstone belt, the gold belt is an established gold mining district having produced over 100 mines, and 170 million ounces of gold since 1901.
Around the world, greenstone belts are a hallmark of ancient Precambrian rocks. The Ennadai-Rankin greenstone belt is the second largest in Canada and displays felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, as well as mafic rocks reaching greenschist grade on the sequence of metamorphic facies.
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