Mineral Evolution Database
Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.
Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

Ages for Chromite at Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 460Ma - 460Ma at this locality

Age range from children

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	Dated Locality ID	Dated Locality	Ref	Ref ID
podchrome-01104	460	460			Cr	102553	Price Creek Chromite Prospect, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157

Mineralization age

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	Dated Locality ID	Dated Locality	Ref	Ref ID
podchrome-01104	460	460			Cr	102553	Price Creek Chromite Prospect, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157

Locality age

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	Dated Locality ID	Dated Locality	Ref	Ref ID
Bradley_2012_074	380	374	Zircon			11772	Hayes Mine (Egypt Mine), Sampson Mt., Burnsville, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	CM52_183
USGS-Rb-Sr-02297	347.51	347.51				102508	Horse Ridge Mine, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA	USGS-Rb-Sr	USGS-Rb-Sr
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00241_206_238	1072.1	1072.1	Zircon			102508	Horse Ridge Mine, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00241_207_206	1229.2	1229.2	Zircon			102508	Horse Ridge Mine, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00241_207_235	1125.2	1125.2	Zircon			102508	Horse Ridge Mine, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb