<p>As part of a larger mineral systems approach to Cu-bearing mineralization in northern Norrbotten, this study utilizes structural geology to set the classic Pahtohavare Cu ± Au deposits into an up-to-date tectonic framework. The Pahtohavare Cu ± Au deposits, situated only 5 km SW of the Kiirunavaara world-class iron oxide apatite (IOA) deposit, have a dubious timing and their link to IOA formation is not constrained. The study area contains both epigenic Cu ± Au (Pahtohavare) and iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG, Rakkurijärvi) mineral occurrences which are hosted in bedrock that has been folded and bound by two shear zones trending NE-SW and NW-SE to the east and southwest, respectively. Structural mapping and petrographic investigation of the area reveal an anticlinal, noncylindrical, SE-plunging fold geometry. The cleavage measurements mirror the fold geometry which characterizes the fold as F<sub>2</sub> associated to the late phase of the Svecokarelian orogeny. Porphyroclasts with pressure shadows and mylonitic fabrics observed in thin section indicate S<sub>0</sub>/S<sub>1</sub> is a tectonic fabric. The epigenetic Pahtohavare Cu ± Au mineralization sit in brittle-ductile structures that cross cut an earlier foliation and the F<sub>2</sub> fold, indicating that the timing of the deposits occurred syn- to post-F<sub>2</sub> folding, at least ca. 80 Myr after the Kiirunavaara IOA formation. A 3D model and cross sections of the Pahtohavare-Rakkurijärvi area and a new structural framework of the district are presented and used to suggest that the shear zones bounding the area are likely reactivated early structures that have played a critical role in ore formation in the Kiruna mining district.</p>