Mine detail: Mt Stinear Iron

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Location: Antarctica, Antarctica
Lat / long: -71.99704, 65.00218
dep_id: 10086449
mrds_id: WA41002
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
Reporter: Jenness, Jane E.
hrock_type: Iron Formation
Structure: Intensely Faulted Beds Of Banded Iron-Formation Were Noted By Ravich And Others (1982) At Mount Stinear, And Nearby Positive Anomalies Under Glacial Ice Further Suggest Additional Iron-Bearing Rocks There.
tectonic: Archean Craton Block?
References:
  • Deposit:: BEHRENDT, JOHN C., EDITOR, 1983, PETROLEUM AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF ANTARCTICA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 909, P. 31.
  • Deposit:: RAVICH, M.G., FEDOROV, L.V., AND TARUTIN, O.A., 1982, PRECAMBRIAN IRON DEPOSITS OF THE PRINCE CHARLES MOUNTAINS (REVIEW PAPER), IN CRADDOCK, CAMPBELL, ED., ANTARCTIC GEOSCIENCE: MADISON, WISCONSIN, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS, P. 853-858.
  • Deposit:: TINGEY, T.J., 1983?, BANDED IRON FORMATIONS IN EAST ANTARCTICA, IN SPLETTSTOESSER, J.F., EDITOR, MINERAL RESOURCES POTENTIAL OF ANTARCTICA: AUSTIN, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
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