Ruby Mountain Colorado Rockhounding

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Ruby mountain colorado rockhounding.

Again i pocketed some collecting bottles and slipped a small deformed crow bar through my belt loop. But a fantastic time hiking with my son and collecting apache tears in perlite during an august 2015 trip to colorado. I was out by 10am. For the adventurous rock hounder the mountains and plains of colorado are still a place ripe with the smell of discovery.

I think that i began on the southeast side. Other great rockhounding resources. The ruby mountain site includes blm and private land. It is easy to see that this state is host to a staggering and diverse array of gems minerals and fossils that make it such a fantastic destination for rock enthusiasts and commercial mining operations.

Spessartine garnets on rhyolite matrix ruby mountain colorado. Thus rockhounders may want to stay on the public lands of this mountain. A view from near the top looking northwest. A guide to the state s best rockhounding sites rockhounding series gem trails of colorado.

Spessartine garnet on rhyolite matrix ruby mountain colorado collected on 9 oct 2008. Until 1992 the site was an open collecting area when local land owners began charging a small fee to collect here. Ruby mountain adventure. Hunting for some topaz and smoky q s in the tarryall.

Spessartine garnet on rhyolite matrix ruby mountain colorado collected on 9 oct 08. Rockhounding colorado and a map of new mexico. Review of colorado s ruby mountain campground located in the arkansas river headwaters recreation area and it is a real beauty. Search ruby mountain nathrop colorado.

I was sorry to disappoint the reader but the colorado rubies at ruby mountain are actually a variety of aluminum garnet called spessartine mn 3 al 2 sio 4 3 these stones occur in a tertiary rhyolite exposed as a series of intrusive dikes at ruby mountain and adjacent sugarloaf mountain and dorothy hill. Climb ruby mountain from the northeast side i located ruby mountain itself a large isolated peak at the far end of the park. If you re prospecting on devil s head mountain douglas county in august you ll join millions of ladybugs for their annual gathering on the summit. A collection of rockhounding and arrowhead indian artifact field reports from across the nation.

Wind was blowing pretty good so not much talking. Large number of pages viewed.