CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
16 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.58.18 N -- 022.00.54 E Teltaja Fe; Mn
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Teltaja
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna (80 km ENE)
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Deposit (sub) types: breccia-fillings, veins and disseminations of iron oxides and associated minerals in volcanic rocks ; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
stratiform deposits hosted by limestones, graphitic schists and associated metasediments; 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.
enigmatic 'epigenetic, metasomatic' and 'magmatic-tectonic' iron mineraliztion; Reference: 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
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 43 Mt
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Lannavaara (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; Mn
Mineralization styles: breccia-fillings; veins and associated disseminations
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Coincident features: breccia (brecciation of the host volcanic units); Coincident feature name: host breccia
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks (trachyandesite and trachyte); Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Internal host rock structures:breccia
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-Cu-Mn
Alteration signatures: skarn: diopside, tremolite, actinolite; What was altered: mafic silicates, feldspar
scapolitization: scapolite, analcime; What was altered: calcic plagioclase
oxidation: hematite; What was altered: magnetite
Mineralogy: (alteration): microcline, diopside, actinolite, feldspar, tourmaline, tremolite, scapolite, analcime
(gangue): phlogopite, quartz, barite
(mineralization): magnetite, hematite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, fluorite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: discovery and development) Discovered in 1920-'21; estimated resopurces of 43 Mt averaging 41 % Fe , 0.4 % Cu and 4 % Mn; unusually high content of Mn; no copper or manganese minerals reported. Deposit at the southeast end of a 5 km long zone that also hosts the Sattavaara and Kevus deposits to the northwest; discovered in 1920-'21; explored to 200 m depth; no mining
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Carlon, C. J., 2000
Iron Oxide Systems and Base Metal Mineralisation in Northern Sweden
Section Eurasia and Africa, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 1, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 349 p, p. 283 - 296

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

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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43 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 41 percent
Cu: 0.4 percent
Mn: 4 percent
S: 0.01 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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