CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
25 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.38.05 N -- 021.01.50 E Leveäniemi Fe; P
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Leveäniemi
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Svappavaara (3 km SW)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: stratiform ore body in volcano-sedimentary sequence, with some ore dykes; preserved in a synform within granite; 4 ore types: main magnetite-rich, minor calcite-rich, hematitized ore and 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.
ore breccia zone surrounds massive ore of 3 other ore types; it is up to 100 m thick and averages 35 % Fe; ore occurs as schlieren forming an irregular net-work with fragments of host volcanics ; Reference: Frietsch, R., 1977: The Iron Ore Deposits in Sweden; in 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 (Text and Figures), Edited by Walther, H. W.; Zitzmann, A., 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 I, 418 p, p. 279 - 293
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: 420 Mt; Status comments: discovered in 1897; exploration 1957 to 1963; 18 m overburden; open pit started in 1964, pellet plant in 1969; mine closed in 1982; pit 1250 x 950 x 300 m; produced 57 Mt ore grading 63 % Fe, 0.4 % P
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Svappavaara (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; P
Mineralization styles: massive; breccia; replacement
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform-foreland; convergent; Formal name: late Svecofennian arc (host rocks)
Coincident features: stratification in host sequence (host volcanic sequence similarto the Kiruna Mine Series); Coincident feature name: Kiruna Porphyries
Regional tectonic structure: a synformal structure open to the north (within the Lina-type granite pluton; orebody folded with the host strata)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks (red leptite, albite porphyrite and sericite schist); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental arc; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
External host rock forms:intercalated flows and volcaniclastic sediments
Host rock protoliths:rhyolitic volcanics (equivalents of Kiruna Porphyries; texture mostly porphyritic); Host rock protolith name: Porphyry-Leptite Formation
Internal host rock structures:porphyritic, fine grained granular and gneissic
Individual lithologies:rhyolite (variably deformed and metamorphosed; referred to as 'leptite' in older literature)
Host rock stratigraphy:Porphyry-Leptite Formation

(2) sedimentary; conglomerate (part of the host volcanic sequence); Depositional setting: continental arc; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Host rock stratigraphy:Conglomerate
Country rocks: (1) diabase; (post-mineralization dykes); Country rock name: Metabasites; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
(2) granite; (post-mineralization intrusive); Country rock name: Lina Granite; Metamorphic grade: none
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-P
Alteration signatures: skarn: diopside; What was altered: calcareous beds and feldspar in volcanics
albitization: albite; What was altered: feldspars in host volcanic rocks
hematization: hematite; What was altered: magnetite
Mineralogy: (alteration): tremolite, diopside, biotite, muscovite
(gangue): calcite, dolomite, quartz
(mineralization): magnetite, apatite, actinolite
Deposit shape: tabular
Deposit dimensions:strike length: 1,500 metres
width: 600 metres
length down-dip: 550 metres
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Frietsch, R., 1977
The Iron Ore Deposits in Sweden
in 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 (Text and Figures), Edited by Walther, H. W.; Zitzmann, A., 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 I, 418 p, p. 279 - 293

Walther, H. W.; Zitzmann, A. Editor(s)), 1977
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 (Text and Figures)
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 I, 418 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.

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Estimate date: 1982; 364.651 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: yes; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 63 percent
S: 0.1 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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