CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
45 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.50.29 N -- 019.43.20 E Vieto E; Ajtijokki Fe; P; Cu; Zn; S
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Vieto E; Ajtijokki
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna (22 km W)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: stratiform, rich in skarn minerals; massive and disseminated ore; ENE strike, northwest-trending faults; sulphide-bearing deposit, mainly pyrite and pyrrhotite; minor chalcopyrite and sphalerite; Reference: Zitzmann, A. (Editor(s)), 1978: The Iron Ore Deposits of Europe and Adjacent Areas: Explanatory Notes to the International Map of the Iron Ore Deposits of Europe, 1:2,500,000 (Lists and Tables); International Geological Congress, Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Subcommission for the Metallogenic Map of the World, Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Postfach 51 01 53, D-3000 Hannover 51, Volume II, 386 p.
massive and disseminated mineralization; tremolite, hornblende, biotite and olivine indicate skarn-like alteration ; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 15.65 Mt; Status comments: discovered in 1914; Vieto M, E and W ore bodies along a 1.58 km strike zone; resources total of the three; thickness: 40-70 m, thicker to the east; average grade: 37 % Fe, 0.12 % P, 1.5 % S; no mining
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kiruna (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; P; Cu; Zn; S
Mineralization styles: massive; disseminated
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; mafic volcanic rocks (highly metasomatized in the hanging wall); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist; Component: hanging wall
Host rock protoliths:mafic volcanic rocks (greenstone)
Individual lithologies:skarn (highly altered mafic volcanics)

(2) intrusive; gabbro suite (diabase in the footwall); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist; Component: foot wall
External host rock forms:sill(s)
Individual lithologies:diabase
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-P
Mineralogy: (alteration): magnetite, calcite, tremolite, actinolite, talc, chlorite, phlogopite, epidote, apatite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Zitzmann, A. Editor(s)), 1978
The Iron Ore Deposits of Europe and Adjacent Areas: Explanatory Notes to the International Map of the Iron Ore Deposits of Europe, 1:2,500,000 (Lists and Tables)
International Geological Congress, Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Subcommission for the Metallogenic Map of the World, Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Postfach 51 01 53, D-3000 Hannover 51, Volume II, 386 p.

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15.65 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 40.4 percent
S: 1.7 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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