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 Quartz at Vigsnes Copper Mines, Karmøy, Rogaland, Norway

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 500Ma - 444Ma 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
Hg-00098	500	465		Temagamite	Hg	49187	Karmøy, Rogaland, Norway	Pederson and Hertogen (1990); Dunning and Pedersen (1988)
vms-00700	485	444				147141	Old Vigsnes Mine, Vigsnes Copper Mines, Karmøy, Rogaland, Norway	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1034

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
vms-00688	485	444				147142	Rødklev Mine (Rødkleiv), Vigsnes Copper Mines, Karmøy, Rogaland, Norway	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1034
vms-00700	485	444				147141	Old Vigsnes Mine, Vigsnes Copper Mines, Karmøy, Rogaland, Norway	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1034

Locality age (remote)

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-00098	500	465		Temagamite	Hg	49187	Karmøy, Rogaland, Norway	Pederson and Hertogen (1990); Dunning and Pedersen (1988)