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Ruby Hill Mines

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Antimony
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10037246
MRDS ID M031206
Record type Site
Current site name Ruby Hill Mines
Alternate or previous names Rubyville Claims, Rubyhill Apex
Related records 10223114

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.6403, 39.66549 (WGS84)
Elevation 2743

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mattier Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe 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 Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 21N 65E 28 W2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 8 OR MORE CLAIMS ON S. SIDE OF RUBY CREEK NEAR ITS HEAD.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Antimony Gangue

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS UP TO $1800/TON (1872)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.6403, 39.66549
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Many Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip STEEPLY SOUTH
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 457.2M
    Width 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORES ARE LOCALIZED IN IRREGULAR QUARTZ VEINS AND REPLACEMENT BODIES ALONG TWO MAIN EAST TRENDING ZONES 5-50 FT. WIDE, 1500 FEET LONG.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1871

Mining district

District name Aurum

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • SOME SPECIMENS ASSAYED AS HIGH AS $18,000 PER TON

Comments on development

  • ORES WERE DIFFICULT TO PAN AMALGAMATE BECAUSE OF THEIR ANTIMONY CONTENT. A 5-STAMP MILL WAS ERECTED IN 1871 BUT THE MINES WERE IDLE 1871-1873 BECAUSE OF LAWSUITS. CHLORIDERS WERE AT WORK IN SUMMER OF 1873 AND SHIPPED A FEW TONS TO EUREKA WHICH YIELDED ABOUT $1200/TON. ONE CARLOAD AG ORE SHIPPED IN 1923.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOSE, BLAKE, & SMITH 1976, GEOLOGY & MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE CO., NEV., NEV BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULL. 85

  • Deposit

    NBMG DISTRICT FILE 322 PRESS CLIPPINGS: 1923 MINING RECORD CLIPPINGS.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA

  • Deposit

    RAYMOND, R.W., 1873, USBM MINERALS YEARBOOK, P. 229.

  • Production

    RAYMOND 1872 P 202 REPORTED

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 8 OR MORE CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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