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 San Benito Co., California, USA

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 25Ma - 21Ma 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
NAVDAT-34009	25	21				226062	Pinnacles National Monument, Gabilan Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT

Mineralization 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-00056	5.3	0		Mosesite	Mo	3529	Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek Mine), Goat Mountain, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	Studemeister (1984)	MD19_202

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
Hg-00033	5.3	0		Clearcreekite, Deanesmithite, Donharrisite, Edgarbaileyite, Edoylerite, Hanawaltite, Peterbaylissite, Szymanskiite, Tedhadleyite, Wattersite, Vasilyevite, Aurivilliusite	Hg	3529	Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek Mine), Goat Mountain, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	Studemeister (1984)	MD19_202
Hg-00045	5.3	0		Calomel, Cinnabar, Clearcreekite, Deanesmithite, Edgarbaileyite, Edoylerite, Gianellaite, Hanawaltite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Montroydite, Mosesite, Peterbaylissite, Schuetteite, Szymanskiite, Tedhadleyite, Terlinguaite, Tiemannite, Wattersite, Eglestonite	Hg	6418	New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	Studemeister (1984)	MD19_202
NAVDAT-34009	25	21				226062	Pinnacles National Monument, Gabilan Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-34010	25	21				226062	Pinnacles National Monument, Gabilan Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT
USGS-Rb-Sr-06343	111.7	101.7				87805	Harmony Hills Deposit, Fremont Peak, Gabilan Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	USGS-Rb-Sr	USGS-Rb-Sr