COMMODITIES IT DISCRIMINATES (12)
What this layer helps you find
Silica sandLimestone, dolomite, cement & limeIron & vanadium (Clear Hills ironstone)Bentonite, clay & shaleAmmonite shell (ammolite)Building & dimension stoneGypsum & anhydritePhosphateBase metals & Ni-Cu-PGE (Shield and carbonate MVT)UraniumThermal coalMetallurgical (coking) coal
Prospectivity envelopes citing this dataset (14)
- Peace River Formation quartzose sandsSilica sand · Cretaceous shoreface quartz arenite (frac / glass-grade silica)Profile ↗
- Basal McMurray / Firebag silicaSilica sand · Clean fluvial quartz sand beneath / beside the oil sandsProfile ↗
- Front Ranges carbonate belt (Exshaw–Cadomin)Limestone, dolomite, cement & lime · High-purity Devonian–Mississippian carbonate (Palliser, Rundle) in thrust sheetsProfile ↗
- Clear Hills Bad Heart oolitic ironstoneIron & vanadium (Clear Hills ironstone) · Cretaceous oolitic ironstone (chamosite–goethite) with vanadium-enriched glauconiteProfile ↗
- Athabasca Basin western margin (Maybelle River–Burwash)Uranium · Unconformity-related uranium at the Athabasca sandstone / basement contactProfile ↗
- Exposed Canadian Shield (Andrew Lake–Fort Chipewyan)Base metals & Ni-Cu-PGE (Shield and carbonate MVT) · Orogenic / magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE, VMS and pegmatite-hosted targets in the Taltson magmatic zoneProfile ↗
- Inner Foothills coking-coal belt (Grande Cache–Cadomin–Crowsnest)Metallurgical (coking) coal · Lower Cretaceous Luscar / Kootenay Group bituminous coal in thrust-folded seamsProfile ↗
- Plains subbituminous coal (Ardley / Horseshoe Canyon)Thermal coal · Flat-lying Paleocene–Upper Cretaceous coal zones at shallow depthProfile ↗
- Bearpaw Formation ammonite zone (St. Mary River)Ammonite shell (ammolite) · Iridescent Placenticeras ammonite shell (ammolite) in Bearpaw concretionsProfile ↗
- Bearpaw / Horseshoe Canyon bentonite beltBentonite, clay & shale · Altered volcanic ash (bentonite) seams in Upper Cretaceous shalesProfile ↗
- Peace Point gypsum (Wood Buffalo) and Bow River evaporitesGypsum & anhydrite · Devonian evaporite gypsum / anhydrite at or near surfaceProfile ↗
- Fernie / Exshaw phosphorite (Crowsnest–Banff)Phosphate · Thin Jurassic–Mississippian phosphorite beds in the Front RangesProfile ↗
- Prairie Evaporite MgCl2 brines and Devonian dolomiteMagnesium · Magnesium from bittern brines (carnallite) or dolomite (Pidgeon / electrolytic)Profile ↗
- Paskapoo sandstone and Rundle stoneBuilding & dimension stone · Dimension stone from Paleocene sandstone and Mississippian limestoneProfile ↗