Mine detail: Ruby Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claim: RubyMs 1722'

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Location: La Plata County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.42779, -108.00592
dep_id: 10014184
mrds_id: D010849
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Trace mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Amalgam, Gold, Mercury, Sylvanite
gangue: Quartz
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Dolores Formation
hrock_type: Mudstone,Shale,Sandstone
arock_unit: Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry;Nonporphyritic Rocks--Diorite
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome, Lewis Mtn Diorite Stock
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Year first produced: 1880
yr_lst_prd: 1898
disc_yr: 1880
discr: William J. Wilson (Claimant)
References:
  • 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
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