CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
5 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.11.28 N -- 020.53.26 E Nautanen; Max östra Cu; Au; Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Nautanen; Max östra
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Gällivare (10 km NE)
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: sulfide subtype; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: 0.96 Mt; Status comments: production from 1902 to 1918 totalled 0.09 Mt; average grade: 1.87 % Cu, 1.1 ppm Au, 9 ppm Ag and 2 % S
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Aitik (Ore District)
Commodities: Cu; Au; Fe
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Early Proterozoic (host rocks)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: Multi-stage ductile-brittle shear zone trending N to NNW (5 km wide, 40 km long ductile-brittle deformation zone that hosts 50 known Cu-Au occurrences) Tectonic structure name: Nautanen-Aitik-Jårbojoki Shear Zone
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-Cu-Au
Alteration signatures: biotitization: biotite; What was altered: mafic silicate
scapolitization: scapolite ; What was altered: feldspars
skarn: garnet and diopside; What was altered: carboantes and silicates
Mineralogy: (alteration): scapolite, biotite, garnet, pyroxene
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Billstrom, K.; Martinsson, O., 2000
Links between Epigenetic Cu-Au Mineralization and Magmatism/Deformation in the Nörrbotten County, Sweden
in 2nd Annual GEODE-Fennoscandian Shield Field Workshop on Paleoproterozoic and Archean Greenstone Belts and VMS Districts in the Fennoscandian Shield, 28 August to 1 September, 2000, Gällivare-Kiruna, Sweden, Edited by Weihed, P.; Martinsson, O., Abstract Volume and Field Trip Guidebook, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, 2000:6

Broman, C.; Martinsson, O., 2000
Fluid Inclusions in Epigenetic Fe-Cu-Au Ores in Northern Nörbotten
in 2nd Annual GEODE-Fennoscandian Shield Field Workshop on Paleoproterozoic and Archean Greenstone Belts and VMS Districts in the Fennoscandian Shield, 28 August to 1 September, 2000, Gällivare-Kiruna, Sweden, Edited by Weihed, P.; Martinsson, O., Abstract Volume and Field Trip Guidebook, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, 2000:6

Danielsson, S.; Lindroos, H., 1986
Aitik and Nautanen Copper-Gold Deposits
in Proterozoic Mineralization in Northern Sweden, Edited by Lindross; Sunblad, Excursion Guide, 7th IAGOD Symposium, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, 6, p. 12 - 16

Martinsson, O., 2000
Metallogeny of the Northern Nörrbotten Fe-Cu-Au Ore Province
in 2nd Annual GEODE-Fennoscandian Shield Field Workshop on Paleoproterozoic and Archean Greenstone Belts and VMS Districts in the Fennoscandian Shield, 28 August to 1 September, 2000, Gällivare-Kiruna, Sweden, Edited by Weihed, P.; Martinsson, O., Abstract Volume and Field Trip Guidebook, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, 2000:6

Wanhainen, C.; Martinsson, O., 2000
The Aitik Cu-Au Deposit, Gällivare Area, Northern Sweden
in 2nd Annual GEODE-Fennoscandian Shield Field Workshop on Paleoproterozoic and Archean Greenstone Belts and VMS Districts in the Fennoscandian Shield, 28 August to 1 September, 2000, Gällivare-Kiruna, Sweden, Edited by Weihed, P.; Martinsson, O., Abstract Volume and Field Trip Guidebook, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, 2000:6

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Estimate date: 1918; 0.96 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: yes; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.87 percent
S: 2 percent
Au: 1.1 ppm
Ag: 9 ppm
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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