Database name: |
World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits |
Compilers: |
Sunil S. Gandhi |
Release date: |
2015-03-04 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Vathanavaara; Vathanvaara |
Political location(s): |
Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna (20 km NW) |
Deposit clan (type): |
Iron Skarn-type |
Deposit (sub) types: |
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: |
significant prospect; Size category: 28.03 Mt |
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) |
Host rocks: |
(1) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist (interlayered biotite schist and quartzite); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: lower amphiboliteIndividual lithologies: | skarn biotite schist quartzite |
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Metallogenic signatures: |
Fe |
Alteration signatures: |
skarn: diopside, tremolite, actinolite, chlorite; What was altered: calcareous sediments scapolitization: scapolite ; What was altered: calcareous sediments serpentinization: serpentine; What was altered: mafic silicates |
Mineralogy: |
(alteration): tremolite, actinolite, diopside, scapolite, calcite, chlorite, serpentine, talc, pyrite, pyrrhotite |
Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: discovery and development) Discovered early in 20th century; estimated resources of 28.03 Mt averaging 39.5 % Fe; sulphur content 2.9 % indicative of abundance pyrite and pyrrhotite; chalcopyrite present, but Cu content unknown. |
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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Resource data: |
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28.03 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yesGrade-commodity information: | Fe: 39.4 percent S: 2.91 percent | Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |