The Yellowknife greenstone belt, also called the Yellowknife Volcanic Belt, is an Archean greenstone belt in the southern Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is mostly made of mafic volcanic rocks (basalt and andesite) and is bordered to the east by batholithic intrusions of the Western Granodiorite Complex and beyond to the north by the Duckfish Lake Granite.[1] Intrusive equivalents (gabbro and diorite) are collectively known as the Kam Group. Most of the Yellowknife townsite and the Con and Giant gold mines are within the Kam Group. The Yellowknife greenstone belt stands out as a positive topographic feature.

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  1. ↑ Cousens, B. L. (2000). "Geochemistry of the Archean Kam Group, Yellowknife Greenstone Belt, Slave Province, Canada". The Journal of Geology. 108 (2): 181–197. doi:10.1086/314397. ISSN 0022-1376. PMID 10736269.


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