In the Marquette Range, northern Michigan (USA), highgrade hematite ore is hosted by the Ga Negaunee Iron Formation and unconformably overlying Goodrich Quartzite. Field relations and new in situ UPb geochronology of monazite and xenotime intergrown with hematite from six mines across the Marquette Range, Michigan, indicate that the formation of highgrade hematite ore bodies involved up .