Mineral Evolution Database
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Locality Name:
September Morn Claims, Maybell District, Moffat Co., Colorado, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 23.03
Youngest recorded age at locality: 5.3

mindat Locality ID: 116267
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-116267.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "September Morn Claims, Maybell District, Moffat Co., Colorado, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 40°24'38"N
Longitude: 108°9'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.410555555556,-108.15388888889

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:
Age IDLocality Notes
Giersdorf_00000809Economic ore deposits of the Maybell area are found in the uppermost sandstone unit of the Browns Park Formation. The uranium ore deposits are described as tabular, amoeba-shaped lenses of discontinuous bodies within limited stratigraphic intervals.


1 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
Giersdorf_0000080923.035.323.03-5.3 The Browns Park formation is dated to be Miocene in age and is applied to the uranium mineralization within it.   YesAutunite, Becquerelite, Carnotite, Coffinite, Liebigite, Schoepite, Torbernite, Tyuyamunite, Uraninite, ZeuneriteU133365Maybell District, Moffat Co., Colorado, USAMaybell Mining DistrictChenoweth (1986) NINCG_289In the Maybell area, the Browns Park formation unconformably overlies truncated rocks ranging In age from Precambrian to Eocene, on the north flank of the Axial Basin anticline. The Browns Park formation is dated to be Miocene in age.


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