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 Climax District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA

The cyan highlights indicate which age entries were selected as the "best" for assigning the mineral an age of 28.4Ma - 24.8Ma 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-00104	28.4	24.8	Molybdenite	Koechlinite, Molybdenite, Molybdite	Mo	7745	Climax Mine (Climax Open Pit Mine), Climax, Climax District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Suzuki et al. (1993)	GCA57_1625

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-00104	28.4	24.8	Molybdenite	Koechlinite, Molybdenite, Molybdite	Mo	7745	Climax Mine (Climax Open Pit Mine), Climax, Climax District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Suzuki et al. (1993)	GCA57_1625

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-00103	33	24		Koechlinite, Molybdenite, Molybdite	Mo	7745	Climax Mine (Climax Open Pit Mine), Climax, Climax District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Bookstrom (1989)	EG27_543