MINERAL OCCURRENCES Alberta Geological Survey

Industrial mineral occurrences (DIG 2019-0027)

Salt, limestone, silica sand, clay, gypsum, ammonite shell and other industrial mineral occurrence points.

Quarry and industrial-mineral target inventory.

COMMODITIES IT DISCRIMINATES (9)

What this layer helps you find

Prospectivity envelopes citing this dataset (7)

  • 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 ↗
  • Bearpaw / Horseshoe Canyon bentonite beltBentonite, clay & shale · Altered volcanic ash (bentonite) seams in Upper Cretaceous shalesProfile ↗
  • East-central saline lakes (Metiskow–Horseshoe Lake)Sodium sulphate & saline-lake evaporites · Playa-lake sodium sulphate (mirabilite / thenardite) in closed glacial basinsProfile ↗
  • Fernie / Exshaw phosphorite (Crowsnest–Banff)Phosphate · Thin Jurassic–Mississippian phosphorite beds in the Front RangesProfile ↗
  • Paskapoo sandstone and Rundle stoneBuilding & dimension stone · Dimension stone from Paleocene sandstone and Mississippian limestoneProfile ↗