CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
30 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.51.18 N -- 020.19.27 E Tuolluvaara Fe; P
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Tuolluvaara
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna Stad (4 km E)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: volcanic-hosted; located 4 km east of the giant Kirunavaara deposit, in the rhyolitic units equivalent to the host units of the Kirunavaara deposit; comprises a cluster of deposits in breccia zones.; Reference: Carlon, C. J., 2000: Iron Oxide Systems and Base Metal Mineralisation in Northern Sweden; Section Eurasia and Africa, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 1, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 349 p, p. 283 - 296
stratabound irregular ore bodies, surrounded by mineralized breccias, in a quartz-bearing porphyry; 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: past producer; Size category: 40.23 Mt; Status comments: discovered in 1897; underground mining from 1902 to 1982; 65.5 % Fe and 0.5 % P; ore contained 0.5 % Mn, 0.39 % Ti (0.06 to 0.66), 0.03 % V and 0.01 % S
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kiruna (Ore District)
Deposit object located: centre of main deposit
Commodities: Fe; P
Mineralization styles: breccia; massive
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal platform-Kiruna Mine sequence; convergent; Formal name: late Svecofennian arc (country rocks)
continental arc-Kiruna Mine sequence (host rocks)
Coincident features: brecciation along a stratigraphic horizon (overlain and underlain by quartz porphyries (viz., rhyolites); strike NNE, dip 60° E); Coincident feature name: Kiruna Mine series
Regional tectonic structure: A group of breccia bodies indicaing forceful injection of mineralizing fluids (host rhyo;itic volcanic sequence dips moderately steeply to the east-northeast) Tectonic structure name: Kiruna Mine series
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks (quartz porphyries); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: unmetamorphosed
Individual lithologies:quartz porphyry
Host rock stratigraphy:Kiruna Mine series
Country rocks: (1) felsic volcanics; (rhyolites and dacites); Country rock name: Kiruna Mine series; Metamorphic grade: unmetamorphosed
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
apatite
Alteration signatures: albite-actinolite vein/replacement: veins and breccia filling which lacks magnetite; What was altered: wall rock
Mineralogy: (alteration): serpentine
(mineralization): magnetite>>hematite, hematite, apatite, amphibole, biotite, quartz, zircon
Deposit shape: tabular
Deposit dimensions:strike length: 1,000 metres
width: 400 metres
depth: 200 metres
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Carlon, C. J., 2000
Iron Oxide Systems and Base Metal Mineralisation in Northern Sweden
Section Eurasia and Africa, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 1, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 349 p, p. 283 - 296

Frietsch, R., 1978
On the Magmatic Origin of Iron Ores of the Kiruna Type
Economic Geology, Volume 73, p. 478 - 485

Frietsch, R.; Papunen, H.; Vokes, F. M., 1979
The Ore Deposits in Finland, Norway and Sweden - A Review
Economic Geology, Volume 74, p. 975 - 1001

Parák, T., 1975
The Origin of Kiruna Iron Ores
Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Serie C, Arsbok 69, NR 1, Geological Survey of Sweden, Publication code 709, 209 p.

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.

Production data: Report period: from 1902 until 1982; 40.23 million metric tons ore; Provisional entry?: yes
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1982; 40.231 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: yes; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 65.5 percent
S: 0.05 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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