CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
66 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.39.14 N -- 020.56.34 E Tansari Fe; P; Ti
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Tansari
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: breccia-hosted in a volcanic sequence; presence of some tremolite, diopside and sphene suggests some skarn-type alteration; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 3 Mt; Status comments: average grade of ore: 20 % Fe
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kiruna (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; P; Ti
Mineralization styles: breccia
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate-felsic volcanic rocks (intermediate to felsic volcanic rocks); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Individual lithologies:syenite porphyry
Host rock stratigraphy:Syenite porphyry
Mineralogy: (alteration): magnetite, apatite, tremolite, actinolite, epidote, diopside, sphene, scapolite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Resource data:
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3 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 20 percent
Ti: 0.6 percent
S: 0.01 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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