CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
60 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.57.33 N -- 019.23.47 E Eustilljåkk; Eustilljokk Fe; P
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Eustilljåkk; Eustilljokk
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: breccia-hosted and disseminated ; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 5 Mt; Status comments: average ore grade (18 ore samples):20.7 Fe, 0.3 % P, 0.01 % Cu and 0.01 % Zn
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kiruna (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; P
Mineralization styles: breccia; disseminated
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
Mineralogy: (alteration): magnetite, hematite, apatite, quartz, microcline, albite, calcite, actinolite, diopside
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email


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