Mineral Evolution Database
Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.
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Ages for Zircon at Kunene Region, Namibia

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 758Ma - 746Ma 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
GSNC11_47_0001	758	754	Zircon			158050	Lofdal-Bergville REE Deposit, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia	Hoffman (1996)	GSNC11_47
Jen_0000976	746	746	Zircon			158050	Lofdal-Bergville REE Deposit, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia	Woolley and Kjarsgaard (2008)	GSCOF5796

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
Bradley_2012_121	545	533	Zircon			30243	Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region, Namibia	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	CM52_183
GSNC11_47_0001	758	754	Zircon			158050	Lofdal-Bergville REE Deposit, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia	Hoffman (1996)	GSNC11_47
Jen_0000976	746	746	Zircon			158050	Lofdal-Bergville REE Deposit, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia	Woolley and Kjarsgaard (2008)	GSCOF5796
Jen_0000977	758	754	Zircon			158050	Lofdal-Bergville REE Deposit, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia	Woolley and Kjarsgaard (2008)	GSCOF5796

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
CM46_861_0001	771	749				158050	Lofdal-Bergville REE Deposit, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia	Wall (2008)	CM46_861
Jen_0000978	749	749				205220	Sodalite Mine, Orotumba, Swartbooisdrif, Epupa, Kunene Region, Namibia	Woolley and Kjarsgaard (2008)	GSCOF5796
ree-00476	100	100				158048	Agate Mountain, Cape Fria, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia	Orris and Grauch (2002)	USGSOFR02_189
ree-00479	1000	541				158050	Lofdal-Bergville REE Deposit, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia	Orris and Grauch (2002)	USGSOFR02_189
Scott-CGSN8_5-0002	510	510	Muscovite			191480	Gamigab Prospect, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia	Steven et al. (1993)	CGSN8_5
sedexmvt-00188	650	650				247178	Tsongoari Area (Tsongoari–Omupokko Pb-Cu-Ba-Zn-Ag Prospects), Sesfontein, Kunene Region, Namibia	Taylor et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1297
sedznpb-00342	1000	541				247178	Tsongoari Area (Tsongoari–Omupokko Pb-Cu-Ba-Zn-Ag Prospects), Sesfontein, Kunene Region, Namibia	Singer et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1252