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I'm no geologist but I live on the shield, and it's extremely fascinating. It's so tough that many house foundations are built around it rather than break through it, so I literally have some Precambrian rock sticking into my basement. I use it as a shelf.
The main site where I dig out ochre, which I'm assuming is an iron band, is just a few minutes walk from where I live.