Québec Is Sitting on Iron Ore — and Almost Nobody Talks About It

Northern Quebec and western Labrador: in eighteen ninety-three, Albert Peter Low recorded compass deflections across an immense iron-bearing belt of the Canadian Shield. Stretching across more than one thousand kilometres, the Labrador Trough holds multi-billion-tonne iron reserves formed in an oxygen-starved ocean nearly two billion years ago. Long concealed beneath trackless subarctic forests and muskeg, this immense subterranean wealth remained untouched until post-war airborne geophysics, diamond drilling, and heavy engineering pierced the remote north. Discover how ancient chemical precipitation, tectonic folding, and modern mega-mines shaped one of the world's premier iron-producing districts. Which mine, oil field, or mineral deposit in your own province or territory should we investigate next? Labrador Trough, iron ore, Quebec mining, Labrador mining, Canadian Shield, Albert Peter Low, geology, Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway, Fermont, mining history