CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
12 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.47.11 N -- 020.13.12 E Rakkurijoki Fe; S
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Rakkurijoki
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: stratabound massive and banded; massive and banded magnetite in calcareous host strata indicative of replacive iron skarn deposit; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 48 Mt; Status comments: resources estimated at 48 Mt averaging 32 % Fe, o.1 % P and 1.9 % S
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kaunisvaara (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; S
Mineralization styles: massive; banded
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; mafic volcanic rocks (greenstone in footwall; associated with carbonates); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
(2) sedimentary; carbonate (associated with greenstones in the footwall); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
(3) sedimentary; sandstone (quartzite in hanging wall, assicated with porphyries); Depositional setting: carbonate platform; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
(4) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks (extrusive and sub-volcanic porphyries in the hanging wall); Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
Alteration signatures: skarn: tremolite-actinolite-talc-chlorite-biotite; What was altered: calcareous beds
Mineralogy: (alteration): tremolite, actinolite, biotite, chlorite, talc, pyrite
(mineralization): magnetite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Resource data:
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48 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 32 percent
S: 1.9 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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