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 Elbaite at Swaziland

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 3077Ma - 2947Ma 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
Kristen002480	3077	3071	Zircon			206575	Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland	Tkachev (2011)	GSLSP350_7
Kristen002481	3033	2947				206575	Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland	Tkachev (2011)	GSLSP350_7

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
Be-00061	3000	3000		Beryl	Be	206575	Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland	Trumbull (1993)	PR61_89
DeepDive-Co-0028	3400	3400				206574	Pigg's Peak, Hhohho District, Swaziland	Foster and Piper (1993)	OGR8_303
Grew_Li_2019_0088	3000	3000		Polylithionite		209024	Zishineni, Sinceni West Area, Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland	Grew et al. (2018)	EJM30_205
Kristen002480	3077	3071	Zircon			206575	Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland	Tkachev (2011)	GSLSP350_7
Kristen002481	3033	2947				206575	Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland	Tkachev (2011)	GSLSP350_7