Ruby Mountain Colorado Rockhounding

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Ruby mountain colorado rockhounding.

Ruby mountain adventure. I was out by 10am. 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. 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.

The ruby mountain site includes blm and private land. Wind was blowing pretty good so not much talking. For the adventurous rock hounder the mountains and plains of colorado are still a place ripe with the smell of discovery. Other great rockhounding resources.

Great stays great views and in interesting tale of how ruby. Hunting for some topaz and smoky q s in the tarryall. Until 1992 the site was an open collecting area when local land owners began charging a small fee to collect here. Since then there have been reports that the current owner s forbids collecting.

Here are some good books. A collection of rockhounding and arrowhead indian artifact field reports from across the nation. The western slope private property. Review of colorado s ruby mountain campground located in the arkansas river headwaters recreation area and it is a real beauty.

Rockhounding colorado and a map of new mexico. Search ruby mountain nathrop colorado. Spessartine garnet on rhyolite matrix ruby mountain colorado collected on 9 oct 2008. Thus rockhounders may want to stay on the public lands of this mountain.

But a fantastic time hiking with my son and collecting apache tears in perlite during an august 2015 trip to colorado. Climb ruby mountain from the northeast side i located ruby mountain itself a large isolated peak at the far end of the park. Spessartine garnets on rhyolite matrix ruby mountain colorado. Again i pocketed some collecting bottles and slipped a small deformed crow bar through my belt loop.

Large number of pages viewed. 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.