| Summary: | In the last decades Fe-Oxide Cu-Au deposits have been discovered and developed in Australia, South America and Canada. This class of mineral deposits is also present in northern Sweden and thus represents a potential target for improving the mineral production of the country. The project aims at defining a geophysical signature of IOCG deposits from regional scale to local scale by using available geophysical data and newly measured petrophysical data. The Kiruna district was selected for regional investigations, while the Tjårrojåkka prospect was selected as testing site for the local study. The Tjårrojåkka prospect is located around 50 km west of Kiruna and is constituted by an apatite-iron ore (Kiruna type) and an associated Cu(-Au) deposit. The host rock is an altered andesite of Palaeoproterozoic age. The working hypothesis to be tested was that a spatial relationship exists between IOCG deposits and major tectonic lineaments and between IOCG deposits and alteration zones and that geophysical data can be used to delineate prospective areas. Gravity and magnetic data were used to map faults and associated fracture zones at regional scale, whereas airborne radiometric data were used to map potassic alteration, which appears to be related to the Cu(-Au) mineralising event. The K/Th ratio maps at both regional and local scale seem to be able to define prospective areas for IOCG deposits. Magnetic maps are also used to indicate presence of highly magnetic bodies associated to high concentrations of Fe-minerals. In the Tjårrojåkka area, Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility on oriented samples was used as tectonic indicator for the geological study of the area. Three major tectonic events were identified, one of which is interpreted to be related to the main mineralising event. Density, bulk susceptibility and Natural Remanent Magnetisation were measured for oriented samples and for borehole specimens at the main Cu deposit. Thermal demagnetisation cycles were applied to the specimens to define the main magnetic ...
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