NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -North of this region, the Superior Province is one of Canada’s most important sources of metals, including deposits of copper, gold, iron and silver. The Bear province includes deposits of copper and uranium, while the Slave province is being explored and mined for diamonds.

Detailed explanation-3: -Four provinces, Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, and Newfoundland and Labrador, accounted for over three quarters of Canada’s total value of mineral production in 2021.

Detailed explanation-4: -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. The largest, and one of the best known, is Sudbury, Ontario.

Detailed explanation-5: -Some of the resources that the Canadian Shield gives to Canadians are: 1) Furs-from fur bearing animals (hunting and trapping is still a large industry). 2) Minerals-this makes a lot of sense because the Shield is solid rock. Canadians extract copper, gold, nickel, zinc and lead from this area.