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 Molybdenite at Lake Co., Colorado, USA

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 28.4Ma - 24.8Ma 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
Mo-00104	28.4	24.8	Molybdenite	Koechlinite, Molybdenite, Molybdite	Mo	7745	Climax Mine (Climax Open Pit Mine), Climax, Climax District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Suzuki et al. (1993)	GCA57_1625

Direct 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
Mo-00104	28.4	24.8	Molybdenite	Koechlinite, Molybdenite, Molybdite	Mo	7745	Climax Mine (Climax Open Pit Mine), Climax, Climax District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Suzuki et al. (1993)	GCA57_1625

Specified 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
Mo-00103	33	24		Koechlinite, Molybdenite, Molybdite	Mo	7745	Climax Mine (Climax Open Pit Mine), Climax, Climax District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Bookstrom (1989)	EG27_543

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
NAVDAT-35628	40	30				115392	Unknown Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10016299), Twin Lakes District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-67112	33.7	23.8				115287	Mountain Boy, Lincoln District (Lincoln Gulch District; Ruby District), Lake Co., Colorado, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-67113	33.7	23.8				115287	Mountain Boy, Lincoln District (Lincoln Gulch District; Ruby District), Lake Co., Colorado, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-67171	34.4	32.3				115123	Cerlew Placer, Hope, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT
sedexmvt-00235	290	254				5991	Sherman Mine (Sherman Tunnel; Leadville Corporation Mine; Day Mines; Hilltop Mine), Upper Iowa Gulch, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Taylor et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1297
sedznpb-00472	41.3	37.9				3652	Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Singer et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1252
sedznpb-00489	45.1	39.9				5991	Sherman Mine (Sherman Tunnel; Leadville Corporation Mine; Day Mines; Hilltop Mine), Upper Iowa Gulch, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Singer et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1252