CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
54 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.24.21 N -- 023.18.55 E Ruutijärvi 2; Ruutijärvi blind ore Fe; S
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Ruutijärvi 2; Ruutijärvi blind ore
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Pajala
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: massive and banded ore in carbonate beds; associated with skarn minerals; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 10 Mt; Status comments: average ore grade: 40.9 % Fe, 0.1 % P, 2.2 % S and 0.05 % Cu
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kaunisvaara (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; S
Mineralization styles: massive; banded
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate (carbonate); Depositional setting: carbonate platform; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:skarn

(2) sedimentary; sandstone (quartzite); Depositional setting: carbonate platform; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
(3) volcanic; mafic-intermediate volcanic rocks (greenstone, mafic volcanic); Depositional setting: carbonate platform; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite, serpentine, phlogopite, diopside, tremolite, actinolite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Resource data:
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10 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 40.9 percent
Cu: 0.05 percent
P: 0.08 percent
S: 2.2 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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