CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
35 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.38.21 N -- 020.48.35 E Painirova nordöst Fe; P
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Painirova nordöst
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit status: significant prospect
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Svappavaara (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; P
Mineralization styles: breccia
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-P
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite, apatite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
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Lundberg, B.; Smellie, J., 1979
Painirova and Mertainnen Iron Ores - Two Deposits of Kiruna Ore Type in Northern Sweden
Economic Geology, Volume 74, p. 1131 - 1152

Associated group(s): Painirova (23)

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