CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
10 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.52.35 N -- 020.48.38 E Sautusvaara South; Sautusvaara malmfält Fe; Cu
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Sautusvaara South; Sautusvaara malmfält
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna (25 km E)
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: layered banded skarn ore bodies; alteration minerals characterize the iron skarn deposit; veinlets and disseminations associated with massive and layered ore; 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: 42.1 Mt; Status comments: discovered in 1896; no mining; the largest and the southernmost of the three ore bodies in a 2 km long zone trending NW; resources of 42.1 Mt average 37.2 % Fe, 0.066 % P, 1.82 % S and 0.03 % Cu
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Sautusvaara (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; Cu
Mineralization styles: layered; banded; veinlets; dissemination
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Coincident features: bedding in host strata
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone (graphitic phyllite in footwall); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Individual lithologies:skarn
shale (graphitic)
marl
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Vittangi Greenstone Group

(2) sedimentary; conglomerate (conglomerate in hanging wall about 100 m thick); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Host rock stratigraphy:Vittangi Greenstone Group
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-Cu
Alteration signatures: skarn: garnet and diopside; What was altered: host metasediments
scapolitization: scapolite ; What was altered: feldspars, calcareous sediments
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite, diopside, hedenbergite, tremolite, biotite, chlorite, calcite, apatite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite
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.

Resource data:
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42.1 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 37.2 percent
Cu: 0.03 percent
P: 0.066 percent
S: 1.82 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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