KWG RESOURCES

The mineral deposits discovered in the Ring of Fire are hosted by 2.7 billion year old Canadian Shield "basement" rock, specifically within remnants of volcanic belts, usually referred to as "greenstone belts" that include the very important feeder magma chambers that are host to chromite and nickel-copper deposits (Figure 5). These greenstone belts tend to be wrapped around and squeezed in between granitic batholiths which represent greater than 80% of all basement rock. The Ring of Fire straddles the boundary between the Canadian Shield and the James Bay Lowlands where it is covered by a flat lying veneer of much younger limestones that were deposited when much of North America was submerged in a shallow sea some 500 to 170 million years ago. Subsequent erosion of the flat lying rock once the continent emerged from the sea, largely by continental glaciers, resulted in flat topography and poorly defined drainage towards James Bay. This condition was further exacerbated during the last..

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