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Ruby Mine

Past Producer in Pitkin county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Manganese
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087867
MRDS ID D010416
Record type Site
Current site name Ruby Mine
Alternate or previous names Claims: Ruby 1-4, Ms 12174
Related records 10190825

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.60701, 39.01999 (WGS84)
Elevation 3499
Relative position 6.9 MILES S 21 W FROM INDEPENDENCE PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pitkin(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Independence Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Roaring Fork(hydrologic unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

White River National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Pitkin

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 012S;012S 083W;082W 12,13;07 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON HILLSIDE EAST OF LINCOLN GULCH 6 MILES SSW FROM INDEPENDENCE TOWNSITE AND 1.6 MILES SW OF GRIZZLY PEAK, ON WEST FLANK OF WEST RED MTN. PROPERTY MAY INCLUDE OTHER ADJACENT CLAIMS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • COMMODITIES AND ORE MINERALS LISTED FROM ORIGINAL CRIB RECORD (USBM REF.). CRUSON (1973) REPORTED SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF DUMP SAMPLES SHOWING TRACES OF W, SB, AND AG.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrargyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Quartz-Sericite, Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite, Argillic, Fe Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyodacite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyodacite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.60701, 39.01999
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sawatch Uplift, Central Colorado Trough, Arkansas Valley Graben, Twin Lakes Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Grizzly Peak Cauldron, Mt Elbert Volcanotectonic Depression, Lincoln Gulch Stock

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.15M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1897
Discoverer John Hughes And Others (Claimants)

Mining district

District name Lincoln (Lincoln Gulch, Ruby) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • AT LEAST ONE TUNNEL OF UNKNOWN EXTENT DRIVEN GENERALLY ENE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS TREND N 20 W WITH STEEP TO VERTICAL DIPS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1983 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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