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 Opal at New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 0.35Ma - 0.1Ma 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
AJES44_373-00022	0.35	0.1			Au	27932	Ladolam Au Deposit (Lihir Mine), Lihir Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea	Sillitoe (1997)	AJES44_373

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
AJES44_373-00022	0.35	0.1			Au	27932	Ladolam Au Deposit (Lihir Mine), Lihir Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea	Sillitoe (1997)	AJES44_373
PorphCu-00617	33.9	5.3			Cu	208476	Legusulum Cu Deposit, New Ireland Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea	Singer et al. (2008)	USGSOFR2008_1155