CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
51 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.46.28 N -- 021.17.15 E Mänty Vathanvaara; Vattavaara; Vathanvaara Mänty Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Mänty Vathanvaara; Vattavaara; Vathanvaara Mänty
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Vittangi (18 km NW)
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: Mänty Vathanvaara is a stratiform iron deposit similar to 10 others in the Vittangi Greenstone Group at the margin of a granodiorite intrusion; alteration typical of iron skarns; 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.
Deposit status: closed; Size category: 10.73 Mt; Status comments:
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Vittangi (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe
Mineralization styles: banded; massive; disseminated
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Coincident features: bedding in host strata
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-chert (carbonate-graphitic shale associated with greenstones); Depositional setting: carbonate platform; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:skarn
carbonate
pelite
chert
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Vittangi Greenstone Group

(2) volcanic; mafic volcanic rocks (mafic volcanics and associated shale and carbonate); Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Host rock stratigraphy:Vittangi Greenstone Group

(3) intrusive; granite/tonalite-gabbro suite (deposits on two sides of ganodiorite pluton intrusive into the Vittangi Greenstone Group); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Host rock stratigraphy:Granodiorite Massif
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
Alteration signatures: skarn: tremolite, diopside, chlorite serpentine, talc; What was altered: marble-graphitic shale-mafic volcanics
Mineralogy: (alteration): magnetite, tremolite, actinolite, diopside, calcite, chlorite, serpentine, talc, pyrite, pyrrhotite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: discovery and development) Discovered early in the 20th century; average ore grade: 31.3 % Fe, 0.1 % P and 2.5 % S; range 40 to 60 % Fe and 1 to 3 % S; production unknown; one of the 11 deposits along two belts NW of Vittangi. Resources in the Vittangi ore district, including Tervaskoski, Mänty Vathanvaara, Vathanvaara, Kuusi Nunasvaaara and Venetvuoma deposits, exceed 50 Mt of iron ore containg 22 Mt of iron; no mining.
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.

Resource data:
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10.73 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 31.3 percent
S: 2.46 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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