NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Canadian Shield is one of the world’s richest areas in terms of mineral ores. It is filled with substantial deposits of nickel, gold, silver, and copper. Throughout the Shield there are many mining towns extracting these minerals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Canada is the global leader in the production of potash and ranks among the top five global producers for diamonds, gemstones, gold, indium, niobium, platinum group metals, titanium concentrate and uranium. Canada is also the world’s fourth-largest primary aluminum producer.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Canadian Shield is one of the world’s richest areas in terms of mineral ores, such as nickel, gold, silver, and copper. It also hosts prehistoric alkaline intrusions that are lower-middle Cambrian in age that produced rare minerals like sodalite and cancrinite.

Detailed explanation-4: -Various minerals and precious stones have been mined or continue to be mined on the Shield, including gold, silver, copper, zinc, nickel, iron, uranium and diamonds.

Detailed explanation-5: -New terranes or continental fragments were accreted to the western margin of the continent. These processes raised up the cordilleran mountains and produced a spate of tectonic activity that created important deposits of copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, and other minerals.