Researchers crack Canada's pre-Cambrian code

Over the past century, fortunes have been made and lost searching for mineral wealth in Canada’s Superior craton – a vast swath of the pre-Cambrian crust that extends some 1.6 million square kilometres across northern Quebec and Ontario.

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Those who have lost have surely wondered: why are some parts of this seemingly similar formation richly endowed while others are depressingly barren?