CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
53 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.27.42 N -- 018.41.36 E Satisjaure Fe; P
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Satisjaure
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Gällivare
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: breccia-hosted in felsic volcanics; associated alteration minerals: chlorite, epidote and scapolite; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 10 Mt; Status comments: analyses of a set of samples gave average ore grade of 39.6 % Fe
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kiruna (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; P
Mineralization styles: breccia
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks
Mineralogy: (alteration): magnetite, apatite, quartz, microcline, plagioclase, chlorite, epidote, calcite, fluorite, scapolite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email


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