CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
28 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.34.17 N -- 019.41.47 E Pattok; Patovare; Pattovare Fe; P
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Pattok; Patovare; Pattovare
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna (40 km SW)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: tabular or sheet-like ore body, nearly vertical, trending NW; composite layer of different types of hematite-rich ore; ore body surrounded by ore breccia; 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: 68 Mt; Status comments: discovered in 1951; no mining done; drill indicated resources; average grade 45.1 % Fe and 1.99 % P (range 1 to 4 %)
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kiruna (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; P
Mineralization styles: massive; breccia
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:trachyandesite
andesite
quartz porphyry
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-P
Alteration signatures: chloritization: chlorite; What was altered: mafic silicates
Mineralogy: (alteration): calcite, diopside, chlorite, biotite, quartz, tourmaline
(gangue): fluorite
(mineralization): hematite, magnetite, apatite, actinolite
Deposit shape: tabular
Deposit dimensions:strike length: 1,100 metres
width: 90 metres
length down-dip: 200 metres
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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68 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 45.1 percent
S: 0.01 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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