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Ruby Hill

The Ruby Hill is a gold and silver mine located in Eureka county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,890 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Ruby Hill

State:  Nevada

County:  Eureka

Elevation: 6,890 Feet (2,100 Meters)

Commodity: Gold, Silver

Lat, Long: 39.5058, -115.98390

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Ruby Hill MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Ruby Hill
Secondary: Locan Shaft
Secondary: Fad Shaft
Secondary: Eureka Corp Mine
Secondary: Look-Out Mine
Secondary: Glister Project
Secondary: Project Glister Mine
Secondary: Glister

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Zinc

Location

State: Nevada
County: Eureka
District: Eureka District

Land Status

Land ownership: Mixed
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

Type: Patented

Workings

Type: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: USSRAM Exploration Co.
Info Year: 1990

Owner Name: Mueller Industries Inc.

Owner Name: Sharon Steel Natural Resources
Company ID: 2600233
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Colorado
Info Year: 1990

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Plant
Plant Type: Leach
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Leach-Precipitation
Year First Production: 1866
Discovery Year: 1938
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic replacement
Model Name: Distal disseminated Ag-Au

Orebody

Form: tabular, blanket, irregular

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Description: plugs and flows
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Oligocene

Name: Andesite
Role: Associated
Description: intrusive and extrusive
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Middle Eocene

Name: Porphyry
Role: Associated
Description: quartz porphyry dikes
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Cretaceous

Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Description: stock
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Cretaceous

Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Cambrian

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Ownership): OWNER; RUBY HILL MINING CO OPERATOR; HECLA MINING CO OTHER NAMES:FAD SHAFT,EUREKA CORP. MINE, LOOK-OUT MINE. DEPOSIT REPORT PLANNED. OWNER/OPERATOR SHARON STEEL NATURAL RESOURCES, EUREKA, NV (RANDOL 1990/1991 MINING DIR. P214)

Comment (Deposit): 1985 UPDATE. PROPERTY IS INACTIVE. MILL EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN DISMANTLED. HECLA MINING CO. TERMINATED ITS INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY IN 1982. GENERAL LOCATION IS ABOUT 2 KM WEST OF EUREKA. DOMAIN IS PRIVATE AND BLM ADMINISTERED. MINING METHOD IS CUT AND FILL. MILL IS LOCATED ON SITE. EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM MILL.

Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: silver-lead minerals, native gold

Comment (Deposit): Eureka deposits are replacement veins, chimneys, irregular masses and bedded deposits in Cambrian limestone along fissures and above a thrust fault in the richest area. Igneous rocks are a small quartz monzonite stock and quartz porphyry dikes of early Cretaceous age; intrusive and extrusive andesite of middle Eocene age; and rhyolite plugs and flows of middle Oligocene age. There are abundant sulfide minerals, but the bulk of the production was from oxidized ores.

Comment (Development): It was reported in 1989 press releases that USSRAM Exploration Company started operations in the Eureka district in January at Project Glister. Mining was by open-pit and included processing of old mine dumps. The mine operated as an open pit gold-silver operation in 1989-1990 employing 12 persons. American Mines states that the property is owned and operated by Sharon Steel Natural Res. but states that Sharon Steel was merged with Mueller Industries, Inc. in Dec. 1990.

Comment (Economic Factors): Production from Project Glister in 1989 was 8,450 ounces of gold and 23,519 ounces of silver.

Comment (Identification): Very little information is available about this mine.

Comment (Location): Most of the Eureka Mining District mines are located on several hills on the northeastern flanks of Prospect Mountain at the north end of the Fish Creek Range. UTM is to the general location of the Project Glister Mine. SW of the town of Eureka.

Comment (Workings): Open pit mine on the site of old underground workings and dumps

Comment (Reserve-Resource): MATRIX 1, COL 2, Q-P75 REPRESENTS ORE PROPOSED FOR MINING WITH 100 PERCENT PLUS RECOVERY. DILUTION IN DEVELOPMENT PLANS ONE & TWO WILL BE 20 PERCENT DILUTED WITH ENTIRE QUANTITY IN MATRIX 2, COL 1, Q-P75 LEVEL. MATRIX 2, COL 1, Q-P75 REPRESENTS WASTE, OF WHICH THE EN- TIRETY WILL DILUTE THE QUANTITY OF ORE IN MATRIX 1, COL 1, Q-P75 IN THE PROPOSED MINING METHOD IN U-DEV 1, U-REC 1.

Comment (Exploration): DISCOVERY METHOD-DIAMOND DRILLING. THERE HAS BEEN NO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION FROM THE DEEP SULFIDE ORE BODY. IN 1975, A 245 MT SAMPLE WAS TAKEN FOR METALLURGICAL TESTING. EXCESSIVE WATER AND METALLURGICAL PROBLEMS HAVE LONG HAMPERED DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEPOSIT.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): DATA IS OLD AND IN NEED OF UPDATE.

Comment (Geology): GENERAL SIZE OF ORE BODY IS MEDIUM. ORE ALSO CONTROLLED BY LITHOLOGY. STRIKE AND DIP OF RUBY HILL FAULT-N40W 60E.

References

Reference (Deposit): 256. HECLA MINING CO. ANNUAL REPORT, FORM 10-K, FISCAL YEAR 1975. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, 1976, P. 12.

Reference (Deposit): 697. STUART, W. T. PUMPING TEST EVALUATES WATER PROBLEM AT EUREKA, NEVADA. MIN. ENG. (NY), V. 7, NO. 2, 1955, PP. 148-156.

Reference (Deposit): 593. ROBERTS, R. J., K. M. MONTGOMERY, AND R. E. LEHNER. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA. NV BUR. MINES AND GEOL. BULL. 64, 1967, 152 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 521. NOLAN, T. B., C. W. MERRIAM, AND W. V. STEELE. THE STRATIGRAPHIC SECTION IN THE VICINITY OF EUREKA, NEVADA. U.S. GEOL. SURV. PROF. PAPER 276, 1956, 77 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 520. NOLAN, T. B., AND R. N. HUNT. THE EUREKA MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA. PAPER IN ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933-1967, ED. BY J. D. RIDGE. V. 1 (GRATON-SALES). AIME, NEW YORK, 1968, PP. 966-991.

Reference (Deposit): 519. NOLAN, T. B. THE EUREKA MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA. GUIDEBOOK TO MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CENTRAL GREAT BASIN, NEVADA. NV BUR. MINES AND GEOL. REP. 32, 1978, PP. 51-54.

Reference (Deposit): 518. NOLAN, T. B. THE EUREKA DISTRICT, NEVADA. U.S. GEOL. SURV. PROF. PAPER 406, 1962, 78 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 450. MITCHELL, G. W. MINE DRAINAGE AT EUREKA CORPORATION LTD., EUREKA, NEVADA. MIN. ENG., V. 5, NO. 8, 1953, PP. 812-817.

Reference (Deposit): 50. BINYON, E. O. EXPLORATION OF THE GOLD, SILVER, LEAD, AND ZINC PROPERTIES, EUREKA CORPORATION, EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA. BUMINES RI 3949, 1946, 18 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 451. MITCHELL, G. W., AND A. C. JOHNSON. SHAFT-SINKING METHODS AND COSTS AND COST OF PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AT THE FAD SHAFT, EUREKA CORPORATION LTD, EUREKA, NEVADA. BUMINES IC 7495, 1949, 17 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 255. HECLA MINING CO. ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1975. 1975, P. 5.

Reference (Deposit): 261. HENDRICKS, R. S. HOW HECLA DIAMOND DRILLED FRACTURED DOLOMITE UNDER HIGH-PRESSURE WATER. WORLD MIN., V. 2, NUMBER 2, 1966, PP. 18-22.

Reference (Deposit): 257. HECLA MINING CO. ANNUAL REPORT, FORM 10-K, FISCAL YEAR 1976. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, 1977, P. 14.

Reference (Deposit): 238. HAGUE, A. GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA DISTRICT. U.S. GEOL. SURV. MONOGRAPH 20, 1892, 419 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 168. ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING AND MINERAL PROCESSING OPERATIONS: SECTION 2A - UNITED STATES MINE/PLANT UNITS, 1982, P. 221. *

Reference (Deposit): 152. ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING AND MINERAL PROCESSING OPERATIONS: SECTION 2A - UNITED STATES MINE/PLANT UNITS, 1977, P. 205.

Reference (Deposit): 325. JENSEN, M. L., R. P. ASHLEY, AND J. P. ALBERS. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SULFATES AT GOLDFIELD, NEVADA. ECON. GEOL. AND BULL. SOC. ECON. GEOL., V. 66, 1971, PP. 618-626.

Reference (Deposit): 389. LOVE, W. H. THE RUBY HILL PROJECT, EUREKA, NEVADA. EXPLORATION AND MINE DEVELOPMENT IN NEVADA. NV BUR. MINES AND GEOL. REP. 13, PT. 1, 1966, PP. 85-107.

Reference (Deposit): 105. CURTIS, J. S. SILVER-LEAD DEPOSITS OF EUREKA, NEVADA. U.S. GEOL. SURV. MONOGRAPH 7, 1884, 200 PP.

Reference (Deposit): Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.

Reference (Deposit): Amer. Mines (1991-92), 1991.

Reference (Deposit): Mt. Hamilton Land Status, 1995.

Reference (Deposit): NBMG MI-89 through MI-95..

Reference (Deposit): Major Mines of Nevada, 1989

Reference (Deposit): ROBERTS, R.J., MONTOMERY, K.M., AND LEHNER, R.E., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA. NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY. BULL 64, 1967, P. 152.

Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W.O. RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRCTS IN EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA. U.S. BUR OF MINES I.C. 7022, PP. 31-47.

Reference (Deposit): HAGUE, A. GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA DISTRCT. U.S. GEOL. SURVEY MON. 20, 1892, 419 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 84. CHENDER, M. (ED.). GOLD PROJECTS IN THE UNITED STATES: A MINE- SEARCH REPORT. MET. ECON. GROUP, BOULDER, CO, 1983, 142 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 741. VANDERBURG, W. O. RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA. BUREAU OF MINES IC 7022, 1938, 66 PP. *

Reference (Deposit): 722. TRENGOVE, R. R., AND A. C. JOHNSON. SAMPLING DEEP ORE DEPOSITS BY ROTARY DRILLING AND METHODS OF SURVEYING AND CONTROLLING THE DIRECTION OF DRILL HOLES. BUMINES IC 7768, 1956, 3 PP.

Reference (Deposit): NOLAN, T.B., THE EUREKA DISTRICT, NEVADA. U.S. GEOL. SURVEY PROF PAPER 406, 1962, 78 PP.

Reference (Deposit): NOLAN, T.B., MERIAM, C.W., STEELE, W.V. THE STRATIGRAPHIC SECTION IN THE VICINITY OF EUREKA, NEVADA. U.S. GEOL. SURVEY PROF PAPER 276, 1956, 77 PP.

Reference (Deposit): NOLAN, T.B. AND, R.N. THE EUREKA MINING DISTRICT NEVADA, IN- RIDGE, J.D., EDITOR, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES 1933-1967, GRATON-SALES VOLUME. NEW YORK. AIME, V. 1, PP. 966-991.

Nevada Gold

Gold Districts of Nevada

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