CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
21 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.38.48 N -- 020.59.44 E Svappavaara ; Gruvberget Fe; Gruvberget Fe; P
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Svappavaara ; Gruvberget Fe; Gruvberget
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Svappavaara (3 km W)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: Kiruna-type ore oxidized to hematitic ore in the central and southern parts of the ore body, forming soft hematite ore including brecciated ore; 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: 74 Mt
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Svappavaara (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; P
Mineralization styles: massive; breccia
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks (pophyritic volcanic or sill); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Host rock protoliths:porphyritic rhyolites (feldspar and quartz feldspar porphyries, deformed and metamorphosed; referred as 'leptites' in older literature); Host rock protolith name: Kiruna Porphyries
Host rock stratigraphy:Kiruna Porphyries
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-P
Alteration signatures: scapolitization: scapolite ; What was altered: feldspars
Mineralogy: (alteration): tremolite, chlorite, scapolite, muscovite
(gangue): calcite, muscovite, quartz, microcline
(mineralization): magnetite, hematite, actinolite, galena
Deposit shape: tabular
Deposit dimensions:long axis: 1,300 metres
width: 300 metres
thickness: 30 metres
Qualified comments: (Applies to: discovery and development) Estimated 74.08 Mt of iron ore resources grading 55 % Fe and 0.5 % P; not mined for iron; a zone of younger Cu-Co-Au-Mo-As mineralization at the margin of the iron ore body was mined from 1654 to 1741
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
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Carlon, C. J., 2000
Iron Oxide Systems and Base Metal Mineralisation in Northern Sweden
Section Eurasia and Africa, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 1, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 349 p, p. 283 - 296

Frietsch, R., 1977
The Iron Ore Deposits in Sweden
in 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 (Text and Figures), Edited by Walther, H. W.; Zitzmann, A., 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 I, 418 p, p. 279 - 293

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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Estimate date: 2007-12-31; 80 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: measured resource
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 47.1 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2007: Annual Report 2006: LKAB; Annual Report, http://www.lkab.com, Luossavara Kirunavaara Aktie Bolag (LKAB), 118 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 2007-12-31; 30 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: indicated resource
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 47 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2007: Annual Report 2006: LKAB; Annual Report, http://www.lkab.com, Luossavara Kirunavaara Aktie Bolag (LKAB), 118 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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