CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
8 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.04.52 N -- 021.02.56 E Liikavaara Östra Cu; Au
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Liikavaara Östra
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Gällivare
Deposit clan (type): Cloncurry-type
Deposit (sub) types: disseminations and veinlets in biotite schist with some magnetite and apatite indicated by 8.2 % Fe and 0.1 % P; notable amounts of Cu, Zn, Pb, Au, Ag and Co indicate Cloncurry-type mineralization; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
bears resemblance to the Aitik deposit located a few kilometres to the southeast in terms of host rocks, and mineral and metal assemblages
Deposit status: prospect; Size category: 4 Mt; Status comments: drill indicated resources of 4 Mt, averaging 8.2 % Fe, 0.1 % P, 1.8 % S, 0.58 % Cu, 0.09 % Zn, O.98 % Pb, 0.2 ppm Au and 8 ppm Ag, 0.02 Mo and 0.01 % Co
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Aitik (Ore District)
Commodities: Cu; Au
Mineralization styles: veinlets; dissemination
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; schist (biotite schist); Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
Individual lithologies:biotite schist
Metallogenic signatures: Cu-Au-Ag-Co-Fe-Pb-Zn
Alteration signatures: potassic alteration: biotite; What was altered: mafic silicates
chloritization: chlorite; What was altered: mafic silicates
tourmalinization: tourmaline; What was altered: silicate minerals
Mineralogy: (mineralization): pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, magnetite, scheelite, quartz, tourmaline, calcite, apatite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
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