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): |
Vieto E; Ajtijokki |
Political location(s): |
Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna (22 km W) |
Deposit clan (type): |
Kiruna-type |
Deposit (sub) types: |
stratiform, rich in skarn minerals; massive and disseminated ore; ENE strike, northwest-trending faults; sulphide-bearing deposit, mainly pyrite and pyrrhotite; minor chalcopyrite and sphalerite; 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. massive and disseminated mineralization; tremolite, hornblende, biotite and olivine indicate skarn-like alteration
; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email |
Deposit status: |
significant prospect; Size category: 15.65 Mt; Status comments: discovered in 1914; Vieto M, E and W ore bodies along a 1.58 km strike zone; resources total of the three; thickness: 40-70 m, thicker to the east; average grade: 37 % Fe, 0.12 % P, 1.5 % S; no mining |
Geologic province: |
Svecofennian Orogen |
Geologic subprovince: |
Northern Svecofennian |
Geologic district: |
Kiruna (Ore District) |
Commodities: |
Fe; P; Cu; Zn; S |
Mineralization styles: |
massive; disseminated |
Geological ages: |
Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization) Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) volcanic; mafic volcanic rocks (highly metasomatized in the hanging wall); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist; Component: hanging wallHost rock protoliths: | mafic volcanic rocks (greenstone) | Individual lithologies: | skarn (highly altered mafic volcanics) |
(2) intrusive; gabbro suite (diabase in the footwall); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist; Component: foot wallExternal host rock forms: | sill(s) | Individual lithologies: | diabase |
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Metallogenic signatures: |
Fe-P |
Mineralogy: |
(alteration): magnetite, calcite, tremolite, actinolite, talc, chlorite, phlogopite, epidote, apatite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite |
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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15.65 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yesGrade-commodity information: | Fe: 40.4 percent S: 1.7 percent | Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |