Mine detail: Ruby King Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claim: Ruby KingMs 1237'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.44612, -107.97008

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Gold
Tertiary:	Copper, Antimony, Arsenic, Tellurium
Ore:	Gold, Proustite, Pyrargyrite
Gangue:	Barite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1880

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1882

Geology

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

References

MRDS	D010850
DEP	10101874
Reference	{Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219 P. 73-74, 163, 173.}{Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 1237}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.