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 Malachite at Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 622Ma - 620Ma 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
PorphCu-00445	622	620		Actinolite, Albite, Bornite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Hematite, Kaolinite, Magnetite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrophyllite, Titanite	Cu	206381	Coxheath Cu-Mo-Au Deposit, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada	Singer et al. (2008)	USGSOFR2008_1155

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
PorphCu-00445	622	620		Actinolite, Albite, Bornite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Hematite, Kaolinite, Magnetite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrophyllite, Titanite	Cu	206381	Coxheath Cu-Mo-Au Deposit, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada	Singer et al. (2008)	USGSOFR2008_1155
sedcu-00209	330	330			Cu	244667	Frenchvale, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada	Cox et al. (2003)	USGSOFR03_107