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 Ferrimolybdite at Questa, Taos Co., New Mexico, USA

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 23.5Ma - 22.3Ma 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-00179	23.5	22.3		Ferrimolybdite, Molybdenite	Mo	19266	Questa Molybdenum Mine (Questa Mine; Moly Mine; R And S Mine), Questa, Taos Co., New Mexico, USA	Laughlin et al. (1969)	EG64_903

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-00179	23.5	22.3		Ferrimolybdite, Molybdenite	Mo	19266	Questa Molybdenum Mine (Questa Mine; Moly Mine; R And S Mine), Questa, Taos Co., New Mexico, USA	Laughlin et al. (1969)	EG64_903

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
Grew_Li_2019_0031	25.5	25.5		Ferro-ferri-fluoro-leakeite		205244	Canada Pinabete Pluton, Questa, Taos Co., New Mexico, USA	Audétat and Pettke (2003)	GCA67_97