Mine detail: Ruby Mine

Previously called 'Claims: Ruby 1-4Ms 12174'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.01999, -106.60701

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver
Tertiary:	Manganese
Ore:	Anglesite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Malachite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Limonite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1897

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite,Rhyodacite,Quartz Latite
Associated type:	Diorite,Rhyolite,Rhyodacite,Quartz Latite
Structure:	Sawatch Uplift, Central Colorado Trough, Arkansas Valley Graben, Twin Lakes Batholith, Grizzly Peak Cauldron, Mt Elbert Volcanotectonic Depression, Lincoln Gulch Stock
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Quartz-Sericite, Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite, Argillic, Fe Oxidation

References

MRDS	D010416
DEP	10087867
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.}{Deposit:: HOWELL, J.V., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TWIN LAKES DISTRICT OF COLORADO: CGS BULL. 17, 106 P.}{Deposit:: USBM MIN. EXAM FILE}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.