CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
23 Sweden (Nörrbotten) 67.38.09 N -- 020.48.07 E Painirova Fe; P
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-03
   
Deposit group name(s): Painirova
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten; Nearest community: Svappavaara (11 km 265°)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: magneitte occurs mainly in a complicated system of dykes and veins, which locally grade into few massive lensoid bodies; minerliazation stratabound in a trachytic flow-tuff unit; Reference: Lundberg, B.; Smellie, J., 1979: Painirova and Mertainnen Iron Ores - Two Deposits of Kiruna Ore Type in Northern Sweden; Economic Geology, Volume 74, p. 1131 - 1152
Deposit group status: significant prospect; Size category: 36 Mt; Status comments: discovery in 1897; four main zones in 1.5 x 1 km area; drill indicated resources: 36 Mt averaging 30 % Fe and 0.8 % P (0.15 - 1.7 % P); apatite crystals up to 10 cm long; S and Cu contents very low
significant prospect; Size category: 36 Mt; Status comments: the largest 'syd' or southwestern zone tested by drilling along 6 sections 100 m apart; the 'öst' and 'norr' zones tested by a few holes; the 'nordöst' or Painarova Mountain zone trenched;
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Svappavaara (Ore District)
Deposit object located: centre of main deposit (syd)
Commodities: Fe; P
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal arc-back-arc; convergent; Formal name: Kiruna Porphyries (host rocks)
Coincident features: brecciation along a stratigraphic horizon (stockwork of magnetite veins and dykes, with some massive lenses, along a stratabound zone in host trachyte unit)
antiform (host dacite folded tightly about north-trending axis; axial plane cleavage 000-020°; mineralization on both limbs of the antiform)
Regional tectonic structure: north-trending antiform (steeply dipping limbs of an antiform in trachytic host; distribution of magnetite exhibits vague stratigraphic dependance along the limbs) Tectonic structure name: Painarova antiform
large scale cylidrical folds (Kiruna Porphyry sequence in Painirova region deformed into cylindrical folds plunging gently to the south)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate-felsic volcanic rocks (late Svecofennian andesite-trachyte assembalge); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental arc; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
External host rock forms:flows, tuffs and agglomerate
Host rock protoliths:intermediate-felsic volcanics (local sequence of trachyte, overlain by volcaniclastic conglomerate, andesite and rhyolite); Host rock protolith name: Kiruna Porphyry Group
Internal host rock structures:layering in tuffs; penetrative axial foliation
Individual lithologies:andesite-dacite-rhyolite (porphyritic volcanic assemblage equivalent to the sequence at Kiirunavaara mine)
Host rock stratigraphy:Kiruna Porphyry Group
Host rock name(s): Trachyte
Country rocks: (1) felsic volcanic assemblage; (andesite-dacite-rhyolite); Country rock name: Kiruna Porphyry Group; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Country rock protoliths:intermediate-felsic volcanics (flows with associated volcaniclastic units); Country rock protolith name: Kiruna Porphyry Group
Individual lithologies:intermediate-felsic volcanics
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-P
Alteration signatures: albitization: albite; What was altered: feldspar
hematization: hematite; What was altered: magnetite
biotitization: biotite; What was altered: magnetite
chloritization: chlorite; What was altered: mafic silicates
scapolitization: scapolite; What was altered: feldspars
silicification: quartz; What was altered: silicates
carbonation: calcite; What was altered: Ca-bearing silicates
Mineralogy: (alteration): albite, biotite, chlorite, scapolite
(gangue): sphene, quartz, calcite
(mineralization): magnetite, hematite, actinolite, apatite, pyrite, chalcopyrite
Deposit group shape: zone of lensoid and irregular bodies
Deposit group dimensions:length: 1 kilometres
width: 0.75 kilometres
thickness: 0.15 kilometres
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Eriksson, B.; Hallgren, U., 1975
Description of the Geological Maps Vittangi N.W., N.E., S.W. and S.E. with an Appendix on Geophysical Aspects by Herbert Henkel
Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Serie Af., No. 13-16, Geological Survey of Sweden, 203 p., 8 maps.

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

Frietsch, R.; Tuisku, P.; Martinsson, O.; Perdahl, J. -A., 1997
Early Proterozoic Cu-(Au) and Fe Ore Deposits Associated with Regional Na-Cl Metsomatism in Northern Fennoscandia
Ore Geology Reviews, Volume 12, p. 1 - 34

Geijer, P., 1931
The Iron Ores of the Kiruna Type: Geographical Distribution, Geological Character and Origin
Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Serie C, Geological Survey of Sweden, Publication code 367, 39 p.

Geijer, P.; Ödman, O. H., 1974
The Emplacement of the Kiruna Ores and Related Deposits
Serie C, Sveriges Geologiska Undersokning, Geological Survey of Sweden, Publication code 700, 48 p.

Lundberg, B.; Smellie, J., 1979
Painirova and Mertainnen Iron Ores - Two Deposits of Kiruna Ore Type in Northern Sweden
Economic Geology, Volume 74, p. 1131 - 1152

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36 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 30 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to camp: 100.0%
Associated deposit(s): Painirova öst (32), Painirova syd (33), Painirova norr (34), Painirova nordöst (35)

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