CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
64 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.43.03 N -- 021.21.13 E Nunasjärvenmaa Sydöst Fe; S
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Nunasjärvenmaa Sydöst
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Deposit (sub) types: disseminated and banded; magnetite-rich ore with pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, and skarnoid alteration assemblage; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 4 Mt; Status comments: combined tonnage of Nunasjärvenmaa Sydöst, Ö and V; average grade of ore: 30.9 % Fe and 0.8 % S
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Vittangi (Ore District)
Commodities: Fe; S
Mineralization styles: disseminated; banded
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; mafic-intermediate undivided volcanic rocks (volcanic rocks associated with phyllite); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:skarn

(2) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate (associated with mafic volcanic rocks); Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Mineralogy: (alteration): magnetite, tremolite, actinolite, diopside, calcite, chlorite, serpentine, talc, quartz, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Resource data:
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4 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 30.9 percent
S: 0.76 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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