List of greenstone belts

This is a list of greenstone belts

Africa

Burkina Faso

• Hounde greenstone belt ^[1]
• Boromo greenstone belt ^[1]

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kilo-Moto

Angola

• Lufico - Cabinda
• Cassinga

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
• Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt
• Wedza Greenstone belt
• Bulawayo-Bubi Greenstone belt
• Makaha Greenstone Belt
• Beatrice Greenstone Belt
• Dindi Greenstone Belt
• Mt Darwin Greenstone Belt

Eurasia

Russia

• Kostomuksha greenstone belt

Finland

• Central Lapland Greenstone Belt (Lapland)
• Tipasjärvi-Kuhmo-Suomussalmi greenstone belt

Norway

• Mauken 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)

North America

Canada

• Abitibi greenstone belt (Quebec/Ontario)
• Bird River greenstone belt (Manitoba)
• Ecstall Greenstone Belt (British Columbia)
• Ennadai greenstone belt (Saskatchewan)
• Flin Flon greenstone belt (Manitoba/Saskatchewan)
• Hope Bay greenstone belt (Nunavut)
• Hunt River greenstone belt (Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (Quebec)
• Red Lake greenstone belt (Ontario)
• Rice Lake greenstone belt (Manitoba)
• Swayze greenstone belt (Ontario)
• Temagami Greenstone Belt (Ontario)
• Yellowknife greenstone belt (Northwest Territories)

Greenland

• Isua greenstone belt (Southwestern Greenland)

United States

• Elmers Rock greenstone belt (Wyoming)
• Rattlesnake Hills greenstone belt (Wyoming)
• Seminoe Mountains greenstone belt (Wyoming)
• South Pass greenstone belt (Wyoming)

South America

Brazil

• Santa Rita greenstone belt

Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil

• Northern Guiana Shield greenstone belt ^[2]

References

1. Huot, Daniel; Sattran, Vladimir (1987). "Gold in Birrimian Greenstone Belts of Burkina Faso,West Africa". Economic Geology. 82 (8): 2033–2044. Bibcode:1987EcGeo..82.2033H. doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.82.8.2033.
2. R. Naipal and S. B. Kroonenberg, "Provenance signals in metaturbidites of the Paleoproterozoic greenstone belt of the GuianaShield in Suriname". Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, Available on CJO 2016 doi:10.1017/njg.2016.9