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): |
Suolojoki; Suolojåkk; Suolojokk |
Political location(s): |
Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna |
Deposit clan (type): |
Iron Skarn-type |
Deposit (sub) types: |
diseeminated mineralization; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email |
Deposit status: |
significant prospect; Size category: 6 Mt; Status comments: average ore grade: 25 % Fe, 0.2 % S and 0.1 % Cu |
Geologic province: |
Svecofennian Orogen |
Geologic subprovince: |
Northern Svecofennian |
Geologic district: |
Kiruna (Ore District) |
Commodities: |
Fe; S |
Mineralization styles: |
disseminated |
Geological ages: |
Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization) Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks (intermediate volcanics in hanging wall); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: tholeiitic; Depositional setting: continentalIndividual lithologies: | skarn |
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Alteration signatures: |
skarn: tremolite, talc, serpentine; What was altered: intermediate volcanic rocks |
Mineralogy: |
(alteration): magnetite, tremolite, talc, serpentine, pyrite, chalcopyrite, calcite, actinolite, scapolite |
References: |
Anonymous, 2000 |
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits |
Email |
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Resource data: |
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6 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yesGrade-commodity information: | Fe: 25 percent Cu: 0.01 percent P: 0.01 percent S: 0.2 percent | Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |