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Chalcopyrite from
Kiirunavaara Mine, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kiirunavaara Mine, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:437848
Long-form Identifier:1:3:437848:8
GUID (UUID V4):6ef79386-c0ab-4c5b-8b86-78c8b7be362d
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
0.6km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
4.4km (2.7 miles) ā“˜Luossavaara Mine, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
4.4km (2.7 miles) ā“˜Rektorn, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
4.9km (3.0 miles) ā“˜Viscaria Mine, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
5.8km (3.6 miles) ā“˜Tuolluvaara Mine, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
6.9km (4.3 miles) ā“˜Henry Mine, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
7.3km (4.6 miles) ā“˜Pahtohavare Cu-Au deposit, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
7.8km (4.8 miles) ā“˜RakkurijƤrvi Cu-(Au) deposit, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
8.0km (5.0 miles) ā“˜Nukutus deposit, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
40.1km (24.9 miles) ā“˜Gruvberget, Svappavaara, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Leoben took place in Lapland, northern Finland & Sweden. Thanks to the organisation of Prof. Melcher and...biggest operating mines, Kemi (Cr), Aitik (Cu, Au), Kiruna (Fe) and KittilƤ (Au) have been visited. Furthermore...Fennoscandia in Finland, NW Russia, Norway and Sweden (Figure 2). Archean crust occurs in the east and...Palaeoproterozoic components. The Archaean part of the Norrbotten province is dominantly covered by younger rocks...Gothian terranes; J ā€“ Jormua; K ā€“ KittilƤ; Ki ā€“ Kiruna; O ā€“ Outokumpu; OR ā€“ Oslo rift; SA ā€“ Skellefte
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minerals Article Energy Drive for the Kiruna Mining District Mineral System(s): Insights from U-Pb Zircon...Martinsson, O.; Bauer, T.E. Energy Drive for the Kiruna Mining District Mineral System(s): Insights from U-Pb Zircon...LuleĆ„ University of Technology, SE-971 87 LuleĆ„, Sweden; joel.bh.andersson@ltu.se (J.B.H.A.); olof.martinsson@ltu...Museum of Natural History, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden; martin.whitehouse@nrm.se Correspondence: leslie... Abstract: The Kiruna mining district, Sweden, known for the type locality of Kiruna-type iron oxideā€“
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Oxide-Apatite Mineralization in the Kiruna District, Norrbotten, Sweden* Anne Westhues,1,ā€  John M. Hanchar...Museum of Natural History, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources...LuleĆ„ University of Technology, SE-971 87 LuleĆ„, Sweden Abstract High spatial resolution zircon U-Pb geochronological...geochronological data obtained directly on the Kiirunavaara iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposit, related orebodies...Paleoproterozoic deposits. The main orebody at Kiirunavaara contains Ti-poor magnetite and minor (0.05ā€“5
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apatiteā€“iron and Cu (-Au) occurrences, Kiruna area, northern Sweden Received: 25 May 2005 / Accepted: 10...Abstract The northern Norrbotten area in northern Sweden, is an important mining district and hosts several...in the region is at TjaĢŠrrojaĢŠkka, 50 km WSW of Kiruna. The deposits are hosted by strongly sheared and...TjaĢŠrrojaĢŠkka iron deposit is a typical apatiteā€“iron ore of Kiruna-type and the TjaĢŠrrojaĢŠkka copper occurrence shows...characteristics as most other epigenetic deposits in Norrbotten. The host rock has been aļ¬€ected by strong albite
Journal (issue)
in the Texas state gem, to paz. Found in Mason County, Texas, Ms. Eames will discuss where and how to...of the gem. Her displays will demonstrate Mason County topaz in the rough and how to differentiate topaz..... 7 The Geology and Mining Operations of the Kiirunavaara Mine, Kiruna, Sweden. ......................2014 The Geology and Mining Operations of the Kiirunavaara Mine, Kiruna, Sweden. by Nathalie Brandes...Society he Kiirunavaara Mine is an underground iron mine operated by Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag
Report (chapter)
magmatism, sedimentation and mineralization in the Norrbotten and Ɩverkalix lithotectonic units, Svecokarelian...WEIHED2ā€” 1 Geological Survey of Sweden, Box 670, SE-751 28 Uppsala, Sweden 2 Division of Geosciences and...LuleĆ„ University of Technology, SE-971 87 LuleĆ„, Sweden ā€” Pro Vice-Chancellor, LuleĆ„ University of Technology...bergman@sgu.se Abstract: Two lithotectonic units (the Norrbotten and Ɩverkalix units) occur inside the Paleoproterozoic...0ā€“1.8 Ga) Svecokarelian orogen in northernmost Sweden. Archean (2.8ā€“2.6 Ga and possibly older) basement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Malmberget Iron Oxide-Apatite Deposit, Northern Sweden Tobias E. Bauer,1,ā€  Joel B.H. Andersson,1,2 Zmar...Technology, SE-971 87 LuleĆ„, Sweden 2 LKAB, 3 Minerals SE-983 81 Malmberget, Sweden and Metallurgical Engineering...87 LuleĆ„, Sweden Abstract The Malmberget iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposit in northern Sweden is one of...of the largest underground iron ore mine operations in the world with estimated ore reserves in 2015 of...Introduction The Norrbotten region in northern Sweden is one of the most active mining areas in Europe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ores at Kiruna TIBOR PARJā€¢K LKAB Prospektering, Box5801, Linndgatan5, 102 48 Stockholm,Sweden Abstract...Abstract In the Kiruna-typeiron ores,apatitehasbeen regardedasthe mostconspicuous mineral. Advocatesof the...However,a closerexaminationof deposits classifiedas Kiruna-typeores showsthat they include both apatite-bearingand...this respect, there are similaritiesbetween the Kiruna-type ores and other types. Apatite banding similar...environmentsgeologicallysimilar to thoseof the Kiruna-typeores.There are severalexamplesof skarn-typeores
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
data from the Aitik Cuā€“Auā€“Ag deposit, northern Sweden C. Wanhainen a,āŽ, C. Broman b, O. Martinsson a...LuleĆ„, Sweden Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Vattenfall...Consultant AB, Timmermansgatan 25, SE 971 77 LuleĆ„, Sweden a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...2012 Keywords: Aitik Cuā€“Auā€“Ag deposit Northern Sweden Porphyry copper IOCG High salinity brines a b...the GƤllivare area in northern Sweden is Sweden's largest sulphide mine with an annual production of 35
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Yukon, the Kiruna iron ore district, Sweden, and the southeast Missouri iron ore district, and a review...magmatic zone of northwest Canada, the Bayan Obo district of China, and perhaps the Redbank breccia pipes...that the ore deposits generally referred to as 'Kiruna-type' should be considered a subset of this larger...Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, and the Mount Painter district, South Australia (Coats and Blisset, 1971; Lambert...as the giant iron ore deposits of the Kiruna district, Sweden, and the Fe-REE deposits of Bayan Obo,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oulu, SF-905 S-971 87 Luleii, 70 Oulu, Finland Sweden Received 19 October 1995; accepted 29 August 1996...kilometres in northern Fennoscandia, comprising northern Sweden, northern Finland and adjacent parts of Norway...from western Sweden to eastern Finland, with occurrences in Norway and Russia. In Sweden, tourmaline ... Cu-(Au) sulphide ore. Norway: (1) Bidjovagge. Sweden: (2) Kopparisen, (3) Sjangeli, (5) Tjavelk, (10)...Zn-Pb sulphide ore. Sweden: (7) Huomaisenvuoma, (16) Kurkkionvaara. Fe oxide ore. Sweden: (6) Kevus, Teltaja
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ļ¬‚uids in iron oxideā€“copperā€“gold systems, Norrbotten, Sweden: Constraints from Br/Cl ratios and stable...Fe-oxide Ā± Cu Ā± Au mineralising systems in Norrbotten, Sweden. Fluid inclusions in late-stage veins in... Chlorine isotopes in iron oxideā€“copperā€“gold deposits Sweden of these deposit types (and in some cases their...2007), the late-stage occurrence of pyrite, chalcopyrite and gold in and near massive magnetite deposits...distribution of sodic alteration in the Kiruna district, Norrbotten, Sweden although no Fennoscandian evaporitic
Journal (volume)
Survey of Finland Bulletin 306 The ore deposits of Sweden by Rudyard Frietsch Geologinen tutkimuslaitos...Survey of Finland, Bulletin 306 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF SWEDEN by RUDYARD FRIETS CH with one figure in the text...ESPOO 1980 Frietsch, R. 1980. The ore deposits of Sweden. Geological SlIrvey Bulletin 306. 20 pages and...figure. 0/ Finland, The metallogenie provinces of Sweden are reviewed. The Precambrian deposits include...tungsten ores of Central Sweden, the sulphide ores of the Skellefte district, the molybdenum and uranium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Accepted Manuscript Tracing the fluid evolution of the Kiruna iron oxide apatite deposits using zircon, monazite...Richard Wirth , Tracing the fluid evolution of the Kiruna iron oxide apatite deposits using zircon, monazite... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Tracing the fluid evolution of the Kiruna iron oxide apatite deposits using zircon, monazite... Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden c Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences...vicinity of Kiruna in northern Sweden is poorly understood, despite a century-long mining history and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ļ¬‚uid evolution and metal transport in the Kiruna District, Sweden: Contrasting metal behaviour in aqueous...deposits and Fe oxide-apatite deposits from Norrbotten, Sweden, formed in similar settings, and in some...al., 2010), and suggested the Fe oxide-apatite (Kiruna-type) deposits are a separate, but related, type...IOCG deposits, from the Kiruna and Malmberget ore districts, northern Sweden (Fig. 1) with the aims of...The detailed geology and metallogeny of Norrbotten County, Sweden, have been reviewed by Carlon (2000) and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lā€¢conomic Geology Vol. 70, 1975, pp. 1242-1258 Kiruna Iron Ores Are Not "Intrusive-Magmatic Ores of the...intrusive-magmatictheory for the formationof the iron ores of the Kiruna Field. The following observations provide conv...tthe theory: (1) Abundantfragmentsand ballsof Kiruna-Luossavaara ore are foundin the hanging wall of...becauseiron ores of the Kiruna type have not been found in rocks which are older than the Kiruna Keratophyres(previouslycalled...volcanic-marineenvironment. The sedimentarynature of the Kiruna iron ores must be stressedin their classification
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nickel-coppermine at four countries: Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the Vammala was increasedand the first planswere...the last few mining field are the Sokli carbonatitecomplex,the Kolari iron ore district,and the Pahtavuomacopper...areas tion first went into production1654, the mining inand ore types. The metallogenyof the Nordic coun-...nephelinesyeniteconcentrate, Before World War II the mining industry was and 410,000metrictonsof olivineproducts...NORWAY, VOKES AND SWEDEN--A REVIEW Fit;. 1. The Vuonos mine in the Outokumpu district Finland. This blind
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
London, Ontario, Canada N6E 1L3 Abstract The Kiruna-type Pea Ridge iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposit...Introduction Iron oxide-apatite (IOA) orebodies of the Kiruna type occur worldwide, are associated with volcanic...range. Notable examples include the Kiirunavaara orebody, northern Sweden (Geijer, 1910, 1931, 1967; Frietsch...et al., 2015); the GrƤngesberg orebody, central Sweden (Frietsch and Perdahl, 1995; Hallberg et al., 2006;...of (Y + REE) + Na + Si + Cl depletion (e.g., Kiirunavaara; Harlov et al., 2002a), and subsequently acted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LuleaĢŠ University of Technology, SE-971 87 LuleaĢŠ, Sweden LGCA, UniversiteĢ Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Maison...Natural History, Stockholm, Box 50007, SE-10405, Sweden d University of LieĢ€ge Bat. B20, B-4000 Sart Tilman...large parts of Finland, NW Russia, Norway, and Sweden (Fig. 1). The oldest rocks yet found in the shield...for its Fe-oxide deposits, including the famous Kiruna-type Fe-apatite deposits. The genesis of these...Hitzman et al., 1992) origin have been advocated. The Kiruna-type Fe-apatite deposits have recently also been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Per Geijer Apatite Iron Ores in the Kiruna District, Northern Sweden: A Comparative Study of Mineral Liberation...Dresden, Germany Luossavaara Kiirunavaara AB (publ.), 98186 Kiruna, Sweden Correspondence: patrick.krolop@mineral...resources for Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) which has been continuously mining magnetite/hematite...magnetite/hematite ores in northern Sweden for over 125 years. Reliable and quantitative characterization of the mineralization...mineralization. Keywords: MLA; mineral processing; iron ore; Kiruna; Raman spectroscopy; magnetite; hematite 1. Introduction
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AppliedGeology, LuledUniversity, S-97187 Luled,Sweden O. MArTINSSON,ANDJ.-A. PERDAHL Departmentof AppliedGeology...LuledUniversity, S-97187 Luled,Sweden Abstract The magnetite-apatiteiron ores at Kiruna are hostedin a suite of...ashasbeen suggestedearlier. Introduction THE Kiruna iron ore district, situated in northern- mostSweden(Fig...abundant apatite-bearingiron ores of which the Kiirunavaara depositrepresentsthe largestone with ca. 2 billion...teores.All apatite-bearing iron depositsin the Kiruna areaare situatedin alkali-rich mafic to felsic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Wales,CardiffCF13YE, Wales Abstract The Kiirunavaara magnetite-apatite ore occurswithin,andiscoevalwith...abundance of disseminated andveinpyrite (q-calciteq-chalcopyrite) whichis locallyconcentrated in the primary...evidencesuggests thatthe late-stagepyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization in the Kiruna oresis not part of the primar...and associated alterationof hostrocks.Extensionof Kiruna-type magnetite-apatite oresto embraceiron andc...syeniticintru- THEmagnetite-apatite orebodiesof Kiruna,Sweden, are the type representatives of a distinctivestyleof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Preliminarysulfurisotopeanalyseson pyrite, chalcopyrite,and bornite from strata-boundminer- Mt. Painter...depositis very large,it is not the pyrite, -8.9%0 chalcopyrite,-7.8%0 bornite). ba4S dominantmineralization...799-822. ON THE MAGMATIC ORIGIN OF IRON ORES OF THE KIRUNA TYPE--A DISCUSSION Tā€¢oā€¢ PARma( LKAB Frospekering...Frospekering, Box5801, Linnā€¢ g. 5, 102 48 Stockholm, Sweden Sir: Frietsch(1978) disputesthe existenceof an is...the highly unconformity betweenthe orebodyof Kiirunavaara mobile ore magmahavingpenetratedamongthe andthe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
titanite from the Aitik Cuā€“Auā€“Ag deposit, northern Sweden Received: 25 May 2005 / Accepted: 17 June 2005...rocks to the Aitik Cuā€“Auā€“Ag deposit in northern Sweden are strongly altered and deformed Early Proterozoic...LuleaĢŠ University of Technology, 97187 LuleaĢŠ, Sweden E-mail: christina.wanhainen@ltu.se Tel.: +46-920-492401...of Natural History, Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden H. Stein AIRIE Program, Department of Geosciences...USA R. Nordin Boliden Mineral AB, 93681 Boliden, Sweden generations of magmatism, prograde to peak metamorphism
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu-(Au) Prospect, Norrbotten: A New Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposit in Northern Sweden M. SMITH,ā€  School...Exploration B.V., Filial Sverige, Box 14, 930-70 MalĆ„, Sweden R. HERRINGTON, Department of Mineralogy, Natural...Proterozoic supracrustal sequence of the Kiruna district, northern Sweden. Potentially economic grades of Cu...Cu and Au, largely in the form of chalcopyrite and other sulfide assemblages, are hosted in brecciated...typified by those of the Cloncurry district, Australia, CarajĆ”s district, Brazil, and the Chilean iron belt
 
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