Relation To Atmospheric Oxygenation
The formations are abundant around the time of the great oxygenation event, 2,400 million years ago (mya or Ma), and become less common after 1,800 mya. Conditions of a reappearance of a sea with dissolved iron at 1,900 million years ago, and later in association with Snowball Earth BIF reappeared 750 million years ago, and that is problematic to explain (see below).
Banded iron beds are an important commercial source of iron ore, such as the Pilbara region of Western Australia and the Animikie Group in Minnesota.
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