Mine detail: Ruby Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claim: RubyMs 1722'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.42779, -108.00592

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Mercury
Ore:	Amalgam, Gold, Mercury, Sylvanite
Gangue:	Quartz
Discovery year:	1880

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1880
Last production ended:	1898

Geology

Host rock:	Dolores Formation
Host type:	Mudstone,Shale,Sandstone
Associated rock:	Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry;Nonporphyritic Rocks--Diorite
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome, Lewis Mtn Diorite Stock
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010849
DEP	10014184
Reference	{Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219, P. 73-76, 162-163.}{Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 1722}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.