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 Betpakdalite-CaCa at Oshikoto Region, Namibia

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 541Ma - 519Ma 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-00038	541	519	Molybdenite	Betpakdalite-CaCa, Molybdenite, Molybdofornacite, Powellite, Wulfenite, Biehlite, Maikainite, Betpakdalite-CaMg	Mo	2428	Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia	Kamona et al. (1999); Haest & Muchez (2010)

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-00038	541	519	Molybdenite	Betpakdalite-CaCa, Molybdenite, Molybdofornacite, Powellite, Wulfenite, Biehlite, Maikainite, Betpakdalite-CaMg	Mo	2428	Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia	Kamona et al. (1999); Haest & Muchez (2010)

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
CGSN10_99-Tsumeb	600	600				43981	Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia	Deane (1995)	CGSN10_99
Hg-00024	541	519		Cinnabar, Eugenite, Metacinnabar, Perroudite	Hg	2428	Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia	Kamona et al. (1999); Haest & Muchez (2010)
sedznpb-00343	541	519				2428	Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia	Singer et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1252