CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
57 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.49.25 N -- 020.03.08 E Suolojoki; Suolojåkk; Suolojokk Fe; S
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
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: continental
Individual lithologies:skarn
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

Resource data:
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6 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-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%

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