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Hope Bay greenstone belt (Nunavut) Hunt River greenstone belt (Newfoundland and Labrador) Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (Quebec) Red Lake greenstone belt (Ontario) Rice Lake greenstone belt (Manitoba) Swayze greenstone belt (Ontario) Temagami Greenstone Belt (Ontario) Yellowknife greenstone belt (Northwest Territories)
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.
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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]
One of the best known greenstone belts in the world is the South African Barberton greenstone belt, where gold was first discovered in South Africa. The Barberton Greenstone belt was first uniquely identified by Prof Annhauser at the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg .
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 .
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.
The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB; Inuktitut: [nuv.vu.a.git.tuq]) is a sequence of metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic and associated sedimentary rocks (a greenstone belt) located on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, 40 km southeast of Inukjuak, Quebec. These rocks have undergone extensive metamorphism, and represent some of the ...