Structural framework and timing of the Pahtohavare Cu&thinsp;±&thinsp;Au deposits, Kiruna mining district, Sweden

Logan, Leslie; Veress, Ervin; Andersson, Joel B. H.; Martinsson, Olof; Bauer, Tobias E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-763-2023

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-763-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-763-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

Research article

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18 Jul 2023

Research article |

| 18 Jul 2023

Structural framework and timing of the Pahtohavare Cu ± Au deposits, Kiruna mining district, Sweden

Leslie Logan, Ervin Veress, Joel B. H. Andersson, Olof Martinsson, and Tobias E. Bauer

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-763-2023-supplement

Data sets

Markhöjdmodell Nedladdning Lantmäteriet https://www.lantmateriet.se/sv/geodata/vara-produkter/produktlista/markhojdmodell-nedladdning/

Short summary

The Pahtohavare Cu ± Au deposits in the Kiruna mining district have a dubious timing of formation and have not been contextualized within an up-to-date tectonic framework. Structural mapping was carried out to reveal that the deposits are hosted in brittle structures that cut a noncylindrical, SE-plunging anticline constrained to have formed during the late-Svecokarelian orogeny. These results show that Cu ± Au mineralization formed more than ca. 80 Myr after iron oxide–apatite mineralization.