Deposit number | Country | Location | Names | Commodities |
8 | Sweden (Nörrbotten County) | 67.04.52 N -- 021.02.56 E | Liikavaara Östra | Cu; Au |
Database name: | World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits | |||
Compilers: | Sunil S. Gandhi | |||
Release date: | 2015-03-04 | |||
Deposit name(s): | Liikavaara Östra | |||
Political location(s): | Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Gällivare | |||
Deposit clan (type): | Cloncurry-type | |||
Deposit (sub) types: | disseminations and veinlets in biotite schist with some magnetite and apatite indicated by 8.2 % Fe and 0.1 % P; notable amounts of Cu, Zn, Pb, Au, Ag and Co indicate Cloncurry-type mineralization; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email bears resemblance to the Aitik deposit located a few kilometres to the southeast in terms of host rocks, and mineral and metal assemblages | |||
Deposit status: | prospect; Size category: 4 Mt; Status comments: drill indicated resources of 4 Mt, averaging 8.2 % Fe, 0.1 % P, 1.8 % S, 0.58 % Cu, 0.09 % Zn, O.98 % Pb, 0.2 ppm Au and 8 ppm Ag, 0.02 Mo and 0.01 % Co | |||
Geologic province: | Svecofennian Orogen | |||
Geologic subprovince: | Northern Svecofennian | |||
Geologic district: | Aitik (Ore District) | |||
Commodities: | Cu; Au | |||
Mineralization styles: | veinlets; dissemination | |||
Geological ages: | Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization) Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks) | |||
Host rocks: | (1) metamorphic; schist (biotite schist); Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
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Metallogenic signatures: | Cu-Au-Ag-Co-Fe-Pb-Zn | |||
Alteration signatures: | potassic alteration: biotite; What was altered: mafic silicates chloritization: chlorite; What was altered: mafic silicates tourmalinization: tourmaline; What was altered: silicate minerals | |||
Mineralogy: | (mineralization): pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, magnetite, scheelite, quartz, tourmaline, calcite, apatite | |||
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