CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
38 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.48.13 N -- 019.53.44 E Puoltsa Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Puoltsa
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 31.5 Mt; Status comments: estimated resources of 31.5 Mt averaging 34.3 % Fe
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Svappavaara (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe
Mineralization styles: massive; disseminated
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks (andesitic greenstone); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:skarn
andesite

(2) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks (rhyolites associated with andesites); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
Alteration signatures: skarn: diopside, tremolite, hornblende, serpentine; What was altered: mafic silicates
potassic alteration: biotite; What was altered: mafic silicates
scapolitization: scapolite ; What was altered: feldspars
Mineralogy: (alteration): tremolite, diopside, serpentine, scapolite, hornblende, calcite
(mineralization): magnetite, actinolite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Resource data:
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31.5 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 34.29999 percent
S: 0.019 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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