CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
58 Sweden (Nörrbotten County) 67.46.15 N -- 020.09.02 E Rakkurijärvi Fe; Rakkurijärvi Cu-(Au) Cu; Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Rakkurijärvi Fe; Rakkurijärvi Cu-(Au)
Political location(s): Sweden; Province or state: Nörrbotten County; Nearest community: Kiruna
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Deposit (sub) types: massive ore in mafic volcanics; Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Deposit status: significant prospect; Size category: 6 Mt; Status comments: average ore grade: 25 % Fe, 0.1 % P and 1.0 % S
Geologic province: Svecofennian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Northern Svecofennian
Geologic district: Kiruna (Ore District)
Commodities: Cu; Fe
Mineralization styles: massive
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; mafic volcanic rocks (greenstone porphyrite); Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: greenschist-amphibolite
Individual lithologies:skarn
Metallogenic signatures: Fe
Alteration signatures: albitization: albite-magnetite; What was altered: volcanic rocks and breccia matrices; Component: early alteration
scapolitization: scapolite-biotite; What was altered: volcanic rocks; Component: post-albitization high temperature
potassic alteration: potash feldspar; What was altered: volcanic rocks; Component: post-albitization high temperature
propylitic alteration: quartz-hematite-epidote-muscovite-chlorite-calcite; What was altered: volcanic rocks, breccia, and veins; Component: post-albitization low temperature
sulphide alteration: pyrite-chalcopyrite; What was altered: volcanic rocks, breccias, and veins
supergene enrichment: malachite-native copper; What was altered: breccia alterantion and matrices; Component: weathering
actinolite replacement: actinolite-pyrrhotite; What was altered: metabasites and veins; Component: early alteration
Mineralogy: (mineralization): magnetite
References:
Anonymous, 2000
Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits
Email

Smith, M.; Coppard, J.; Herrington, R.; Stein, H., 2007
The Geology of the Rakkurijärvi Cu-(Au) Prospect, Norbotten: A New Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposit in Northern Sweden
Economic Geology, Volume 102, p. 393 - 414

Resource data:
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6 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 25 percent
S: 1 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 2000: Swedish Database of Mineral Deposits; Email
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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