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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)
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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.
His work in mapping and detailing the characteristics of the Barberton Greenstone belt has been used as a primer for other greenstone belts around the world. He noted the existence of pillow lavas , indicating a lava being rapidly cooled in water , as well as the spinifex textures created by crystals formed under rapidly cooling environments ...
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.
Eoarchean geology is the study of the oldest preserved crustal fragments of Earth during the Eoarchean era from 4.031 to 3.6 billion years ago. Major well-preserved rock units dated to this era are known from three localities, the Isua Greenstone Belt in Southwest Greenland, the Acasta Gneiss in the Slave Craton in Canada, and the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in the eastern coast of Hudson Bay ...