CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
42 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.43.57 N -- 021.24.17 E Kuusi Nunasvaara 1 Fe; S
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Kuusi Nunasvaara 1
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit status: significant prospect
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Vittangi (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; S
Mineralization styles: disseminated; banded; massive
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metasomatic-hydrothermal; unclassified metasomatic rocks (carbonate skarn)
Individual lithologies:skarn
Mineralogy: (alteration): magnetite, tremolite, actinolite, diopside, calcite, chlorite, serpentine, talc, pyrite, pyrrhotite, phlogopite, galena
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
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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.

Associated group(s): Kuusi Nunasvaara (26)

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