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 Molybdenite at Sofia Province, Bulgaria

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 92.73Ma - 91.38Ma 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
Mo-00196	92.73	92.13	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1
Mo-00193	92.38	91.38	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1

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
Mo-00191	92.24	91.64	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1
Mo-00192	92.46	91.86	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1
Mo-00193	92.38	91.38	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1
Mo-00194	92.67	92.07	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1
Mo-00195	92.54	91.94	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1
Mo-00196	92.73	92.13	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1
Mo-00197	92.39	91.79	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1
Mo-00198	92.33	91.73	Molybdenite		Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Zimmerman et al. (2008)	MD43_1

Specified 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
Mo-00199	93.7	74.5		Molybdenite	Mo	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Lips et al. (2004); Singer et al. (2008)
PorphCu-00689	92	92		Actinolite, Albite, Bismuth, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Clausthalite, Cobaltite, Covellite, Epidote, Galena, Gold, Hematite, Hessite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Rutile, Sphalerite, Tellurium, Electrum	Cu	25121	Elatsite Mine (Elacite Mine), Zlatitsa, Zlatitsa Obshtina, Sofia Province, Bulgaria	Singer et al. (2008)	USGSOFR2008_1155