MINERAL OCCURRENCES Alberta Geological Survey

Metallic mineral occurrences (DIG 2019-0026)

Point database of metallic mineral occurrences including uranium showings and Clear Hills ironstone records.

Known showings to anchor exploration models; density is highest on the Shield and Clear Hills.

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COMMODITIES IT DISCRIMINATES (6)

What this layer helps you find

Iron & vanadium (Clear Hills ironstone)UraniumBase metals & Ni-Cu-PGE (Shield and carbonate MVT)GoldRare earth elements & coal-ash critical metalsTitanium & zirconium (oil sands heavy minerals)

Prospectivity envelopes citing this dataset (3)

  • Clear Hills Bad Heart oolitic ironstoneIron & vanadium (Clear Hills ironstone) · Cretaceous oolitic ironstone (chamosite–goethite) with vanadium-enriched glauconiteProfile ↗
  • Oil sands froth-treatment tailings (Fort McMurray mines)Titanium & zirconium (oil sands heavy minerals) · Heavy-mineral (ilmenite, leucoxene, zircon) concentration in bitumen froth tailingsProfile ↗
  • Coal fly-ash and Ardley coal REE-Ga-Ge stockpilesRare earth elements & coal-ash critical metals · Secondary recovery of REE, gallium, germanium from coal, ash ponds and petcokeProfile ↗