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 Delafossite at Niihama City, Ehime, Japan

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 170Ma - 170Ma 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
vms-00508	170	170			S	8667	Besshi Mine (Bessi Mine), Besshi, Niihama City, Ehime, Japan	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1034

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
vms-00508	170	170			S	8667	Besshi Mine (Bessi Mine), Besshi, Niihama City, Ehime, Japan	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1034
vms-00562	360	360			S	21603	Sazare Mine, Niihama City, Ehime, Japan	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1034