CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
37 Sweden (Dalarna) 60.23.00 N -- 015.13.00 E Idkerberget Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Idkerberget
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Dalarna; Nearest community: Borlänge (15 km SW)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: stratabound lensoid and irregular bodies in a rhyolite sequence intruded by a large mafic pluton that is metaorphosed to amphibolite; skarn breccias and disseminated ore occur in the deposit ; Reference: Magnusson, N. H., 1970: The Origin of the Iron Ores in Central Sweden and the History of their Alterations; Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Serie C, Part 1 and 2, Publication code 643, 491 p.
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: 10 Mt
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Southern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Berglagen (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe
Mineralization styles: stratiform magnetite layers and lenses; banded; breccia-fillings; dissemination
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal arc-fore-arc; convergent (host rocks)
Coincident features: stratification in host sequence (ore bodies nearly concordant, with associated brccia-fillings and disseminations)
post-ore intrusion (a mafic intrusion, metamorphosed to amphibolite, encloses ore bodies)
Regional tectonic structure: highly deformed zone (late Svecofennian deformation and metamorphism; trend E-W; abundant granite injections)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks (post-ore deformation and metamorphism); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental arc; Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
External host rock forms:intercalated flows and volcaniclastic sediments
Host rock protoliths:rhyolitic volcanics (rhyolitic flows and volcaniclastics, referred to in older literature as 'leptites')
Internal host rock structures:porphyritic, fine grained granular and gneissic
Individual lithologies:rhyolite (altered during mineralization, disrupted by a mafic intrusion, then deformed, metamorphosed and intruded by granites)
Alteration signatures: skarn: diopside, tremolite, actinolite, chlorite; What was altered: rhyolitic and calcareous host rocks
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite, apatite, hematite, actinolite
Deposit shape: zone of lensoid and irregular bodies
Deposit dimensions:length: 700 metres
thickness: 70 metres
depth: 125 metres
Qualified comments: (Applies to: discovery and development) Mined intermittently from 17th century to 1902 when systematic underground mining started; lasted till 1977; ore averaged 62 % Fe, 0.05 % Mn, 0.6-0.7 % P, 0.017 % S, 5.4 % SiO2, 2 % CaO and 2.2 % MgO. The deposit is comparable with the Grangesberg and Blötburget deposits, 60 and 52 km to the SSW respectively; together they comprised 40 % of the iron ore resources of central Sweden. Reserves unknown.
References:
Magnusson, N. H., 1970
The Origin of the Iron Ores in Central Sweden and the History of their Alterations
Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Serie C, Part 1 and 2, Publication code 643, 491 p.

Zitzmann, A. Editor(s)), 1978
The Iron Ore Deposits of Europe and Adjacent Areas: Explanatory Notes to the International Map of the Iron Ore Deposits of Europe, 1:2,500,000 (Lists and Tables)
International Geological Congress, Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Subcommission for the Metallogenic Map of the World, Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Postfach 51 01 53, D-3000 Hannover 51, Volume II, 386 p.

Resource data:
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50 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 35 percent
Mn: 0.4 percent
S: 0.6 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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