CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
14 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.47.41 N -- 021.17.07 E Vathanavaara; Vathanvaara Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Vathanavaara; Vathanvaara
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna (20 km NW)
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: a stratiform iron deposit similar to 10 others in the Vittangi Greenstone Group at the margin of a granodiorite intrusion; alteration typical of iron skarns; 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: 28.03 Mt
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Vittangi (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe
Mineralization styles: banded; massive; disseminated
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; metasedimentary schist (interlayered biotite schist and quartzite); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: lower amphibolite
Individual lithologies:skarn
biotite schist
quartzite
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
Alteration signatures: skarn: diopside, tremolite, actinolite, chlorite; What was altered: calcareous sediments
scapolitization: scapolite ; What was altered: calcareous sediments
serpentinization: serpentine; What was altered: mafic silicates
Mineralogy: (alteration): tremolite, actinolite, diopside, scapolite, calcite, chlorite, serpentine, talc, pyrite, pyrrhotite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: discovery and development) Discovered early in 20th century; estimated resources of 28.03 Mt averaging 39.5 % Fe; sulphur content 2.9 % indicative of abundance pyrite and pyrrhotite; chalcopyrite present, but Cu content unknown.
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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28.03 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 39.4 percent
S: 2.91 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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