Database name: |
World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits |
Compilers: |
Sunil S. Gandhi |
Release date: |
2015-03-04 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Pattok; Patovare; Pattovare |
Political location(s): |
Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna (40 km SW) |
Deposit clan (type): |
Kiruna-type |
Deposit (sub) types: |
tabular or sheet-like ore body, nearly vertical, trending NW; composite layer of different types of hematite-rich ore; ore body surrounded by ore breccia; 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: 68 Mt; Status comments: discovered in 1951; no mining done; drill indicated resources; average grade 45.1 % Fe and 1.99 % P (range 1 to 4 %) |
Geologic province: |
Svecofennian Orogen |
Geologic subprovince: |
Northern Svecofennian |
Geologic district: |
Kiruna (Ore District) |
Commodities: |
Fe; P |
Mineralization styles: |
massive; breccia |
Geological ages: |
Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization) Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphiboliteIndividual lithologies: | trachyandesite andesite quartz porphyry |
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Metallogenic signatures: |
Fe-P |
Alteration signatures: |
chloritization: chlorite; What was altered: mafic silicates |
Mineralogy: |
(alteration): calcite, diopside, chlorite, biotite, quartz, tourmaline (gangue): fluorite (mineralization): hematite, magnetite, apatite, actinolite |
Deposit shape: |
tabularDeposit dimensions: | strike length: 1,100 metres width: 90 metres length down-dip: 200 metres |
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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. |
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Resource data: |
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68 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yesGrade-commodity information: | Fe: 45.1 percent S: 0.01 percent | Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |