The Ruby Mine is a copper, zinc, lead, and silver mine located in Pitkin county, Colorado at an elevation of 11,480 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 11,480 Feet (3,499 Meters)
Commodity: Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver
Lat, Long: 39.02, -106.60639
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Ruby Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ruby Mine
Secondary: Claims: Ruby 1-4
Secondary: Ms 12174
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Zinc
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Manganese
Location
State: Colorado
County: Pitkin
District: Lincoln (Lincoln Gulch, Ruby) District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1897
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Sawatch Uplift, Central Colorado Trough, Arkansas Valley Graben, Twin Lakes Batholith
Type: L
Description: Grizzly Peak Cauldron, Mt Elbert Volcanotectonic Depression, Lincoln Gulch Stock
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Quartz-Sericite, Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite, Argillic, Fe Oxidation
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Oligocene
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Oligocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrargyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Covellite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Anglesite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): COMMODITIES AND ORE MINERALS LISTED FROM ORIGINAL CRIB RECORD (USBM REF.). CRUSON (1973) REPORTED SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF DUMP SAMPLES SHOWING TRACES OF W, SB, AND AG.
Comment (Location): ON HILLSIDE EAST OF LINCOLN GULCH 6 MILES SSW FROM INDEPENDENCE TOWNSITE AND 1.6 MILES SW OF GRIZZLY PEAK, ON WEST FLANK OF WEST RED MTN. PROPERTY MAY INCLUDE OTHER ADJACENT CLAIMS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)
Comment (Deposit): VEINS TREND N 20 W WITH STEEP TO VERTICAL DIPS
Comment (Workings): AT LEAST ONE TUNNEL OF UNKNOWN EXTENT DRIVEN GENERALLY ENE.
References
Reference (Deposit): CRUSON, M.G., 1973, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE GRIZZLY PEAK CAULDRON COMPLEX, SAWATCH RANGE, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES PH.D. THESIS T-1538.
Reference (Deposit): HOWELL, J.V., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TWIN LAKES DISTRICT OF COLORADO: CGS BULL. 17, 106 P.
Reference (Deposit): USBM MIN. EXAM FILE
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