Fire Lake is 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) long and 800 metres (2,600 ft) wide.

It is about 400 kilometres (250 mi) north of Port-Cartier, Quebec, a port on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

[4] The open pit mine near Fire Lake was exploited by Sidbec-Normines, a private-public consortium, between 1977 and 1984.

[1] ArcelorMittal resumed mining at Fire Lake in 2006, with operations at first shutting down each winter.

Instead, the raw ore in shipped by train to Mont-Wright for processing, typically four times a day in convoys of about 60 wagons.

In 2013 it was estimated that the district produced 47 million tonnes of iron ore concentrate.