List of greenstone belts
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South Africa

  • Barberton greenstone belt
  • Pietersberg greenstone belt

Tanzania

  • Kilimafedha greenstone belt
  • Lake Victoria Greenstone Belt
  • Nzega Greenstone Belt

Zimbabwe

  • Belingwe Greenstone Belt
  • Gweru-Shurugwi Greenstone Belt
  • Harare greenstone belt

Oceania

  • Harris greenstone belt (Australia)
  • Jack Hills greenstone belt (Australia)
  • Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt (Australia)
  • Saddleback greenstone belt (Australia)
  • Southern Cross greenstone belt (Australia)
  • Yandal greenstone belt (Australia)
  • Yalgoo-Singleton greenstone belt (Australia)

Canada

  • Abitibi greenstone belt
    Abitibi greenstone belt
    The Abitibi greenstone belt is a 2,800-2,600 million year old greenstone belt that spans across the Ontario-Quebec border in Canada. It is mostly made of volcanic rocks, but also includes ultramafic rocks, mafic intrusions, granitoid rocks, and early and middle Precambrian sediments.-Geographical...

     (Quebec/Ontario)
  • Bird River greenstone belt
    Bird River greenstone belt
    The Bird River greenstone belt is an Archean greenstone belt in southeastern Manitoba, Canada.-See also:*Volcanism of Canada*Volcanism of Western Canada*List of greenstone belts...

     (Manitoba)
  • Ecstall Greenstone Belt
    Ecstall Greenstone Belt
    The Ecstall Greenstone Belt is a north-northwest trending greenstone belt in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located in the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains between the communities of Prince Rupert and Kitimat. It is long and to wide and represents a small portion of the long...

     (British Columbia)
  • Ennadai greenstone belt (Saskatchewan)
  • Flin Flon greenstone belt
    Flin Flon greenstone belt
    The Flin Flon greenstone belt, also referred to as the Flin Flon-Snow Lake greenstone belt, is a Precambrian greenstone belt located in the central area of Manitoba and east-central Saskatchewan, Canada . It lies in the central portion of the Trans-Hudson orogeny and was formed by arc volcanism...

     (Manitoba/Saskatchewan)
  • Hope Bay greenstone belt
    Hope Bay greenstone belt
    The Hope Bay greenstone belt, also called the Hope Bay volcanic belt, is a long Archean greenstone belt in western Nunavut, Canada. It consists of mostly mafic volcanic rocks and contains three major gold deposits called Boston, Doris andNaartok....

     (Nunavut)
  • Hunt River greenstone belt
    Hunt River greenstone belt
    The Hunt River greenstone belt, also called the Hunt River volcanic belt, is a northeast trending Mesoarchean greenstone belt in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, located along the coast of Labrador about west of the town of Hopedale. It is long and consists of metavolcanic and metasedimentary...

     (Newfoundland and Labrador)
  • Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt
    Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt
    Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, also called the Porpoise Cove greenstone belt, is a greenstone belt on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. With an age of about 4.28 billion years, it is the only portion of the Earth's crust known to have formed during the Hadean...

     (Quebec)
  • Red Lake greenstone belt
    Red Lake greenstone belt
    The Red Lake greenstone belt is an Archean greenstone belt at the town of Red Lake in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It consists of basaltic and komatiitic volcanics ranging in age from 2,925 to 2,940 million years old and younger rhyolite-andesite volcanics ranging in age from...

     (Ontario)
  • Rice Lake greenstone belt (Manitoba)
  • Swayze greenstone belt (Ontario)
  • Temagami greenstone belt
    Temagami greenstone belt
    The Temagami greenstone belt, also known as the Temagami volcanic belt and the Temagami metavolcanic belt, is a small 2.7 billion year old greenstone belt in the Temagami region of Northeastern Ontario, Canada...

     (Ontario)
  • Yellowknife greenstone belt (Northwest Territories)

United States

  • Elmers Rock greenstone belt (Wyoming)
  • Rattlesnake Hills greenstone belt
    Rattlesnake Hills greenstone belt
    The Rattlesnake Hills greenstone belt represents a fragment of a partially exposed synformal Archean greenstone belt within the Wyoming craton that was intruded by Tertiary alkalic volcanics. The supracrustal belt has been subjected to multiphase deformation during the Archean and later brittle...

     (Wyoming)
  • Seminoe Mountains greenstone belt
    Seminoe Mountains greenstone belt
    The Seminoe Mountains greenstone belt represents a fragment of an Archean greenstone terrane within the Wyoming craton. The greenstone belt was mapped by Hausel, who identified significant gold anomalies at Bradley Peak in banded iron formation, quartz veins and in a large altered zone of...

     (Wyoming)
  • South Pass greenstone belt
    South Pass greenstone belt
    The South Pass greenstone belt is located within the Wyoming craton in the US. The region was the site of Wyoming's initial gold discovery in 1842.-Economic geology:...

    (Wyoming)
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