CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
55 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.49.44 N -- 020.35.32 E Altavaara Norra Fe; P; S
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Altavaara Norra
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: veins and disseminations of magnetite hosted by mafic volcanics, biotite-scapolite skarn alteration; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 7.1 Mt; Status comments: average ore grade: 25.8 % Fe, 0.4 % P and 0.4 % S
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kiruna (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; P; S
Mineralization styles: veinlets; disseminated
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; unclassified metamorphic rocks (amphibolite); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
Individual lithologies:amphibolite
aplite

(2) intrusive; granite suite (aplitic dykes and irregular bodies); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Mineralogy: (alteration): magnetite, apatite, feldspar, scapolite, hornblende, diopside, biotite, epidote
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Resource data:
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7.1 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 25.8 percent
S: 0.38 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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