35 

 THE MOOSE MOUNTAIN IRON RANGE. 



At Moose Mountain about 7 miles beyond the northern 

 side of the nickel basin and 33 miles from Sudbury by the 

 Canadian Northern Railway, one of the largest iron ore 

 deposits in Canada has been found. The iron formation here 

 is separated from the northern nickel range by a band of 



Banded iron formation, Sellwood. 



Laurentian consisting of granite, banded gneiss, greenstone 

 and green schist, all more or less cut by pegmatite dikes. 

 These rocks are far older than the nickel eruptive and 

 underlie the deposits of the northern nickel range as country 

 rock. The Sudbury series is lacking on this side of the 

 nickel basin, so far as known, and nothing suggesting the 

 Grenville series has been found, so that the geology to the 

 north differs greatly from that to the south. 



