CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
48 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.53.11 N -- 020.46.37 E Sautusvaara North; Sautusvaara malmfält Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Sautusvaara North; Sautusvaara malmfält
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna (25 km NE)
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: layered banded skarn ore bodies; alteration minerals characterize the iron skarn deposit; 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: 13.3 Mt; Status comments: discovered in 1896; no mining; northern of the three ore bodies in a 2 km long zone trending NW; resources of 13.3 Mt averaging 42.1 % Fe, 0.074 % P, 0.17 % V, 0.48 % S and 0.03 % Cu
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kiruna (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe
Mineralization styles: stratiform magnetite layers and lenses; banded; massive
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Coincident features: bedding in host strata
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone (footwall marlstone, graphitic shale and limestone beds); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite; Component: foot wall
Individual lithologies:skarn
shale (graphitic)
marl
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Vittangi Greenstone Group

(2) volcanic; mafic volcanic rocks (greenstones in the footwall; beneath marlstone-graphitic shale); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite; Component: foot wall
Individual lithologies:greenschist
Host rock stratigraphy:Vittangi Greenstone Group

(3) sedimentary; conglomerate (hanging wall conglomerate, about 100 m thick); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Host rock stratigraphy:Vittangi Greenstone Group

(4) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks (porphyritic felsic volcanics); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Host rock stratigraphy:Porphyrite Group
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
Alteration signatures: skarn: tremolite, diopside, hedenbergite; What was altered: host calcareous metasediments
potassic alteration: biotite; What was altered: mafic silicates
scapolitization: scapolite ; What was altered: feldspars
Mineralogy: (alteration): diopside, hedenbergite, tremolite, scapolite, biotite, chlorite, calcite
(mineralization): magnetite, apatite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite
Deposit shape: tabular
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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13.3 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 42.1 percent
Cu: 0.03 percent
P: 0.074 percent
V: 0.168 percent
S: 0.48 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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