Ruby Mountain Colorado Rockhounding

Since then there have been reports that the current owner s forbids collecting.

Ruby mountain colorado rockhounding.

Rockhounding colorado and a map of new mexico. Ruby mountain adventure. A view from near the top looking northwest. Large number of pages viewed.

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. 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. Wind was blowing pretty good so not much talking.

A guide to the state s best rockhounding sites rockhounding series gem trails of colorado. For the adventurous rock hounder the mountains and plains of colorado are still a place ripe with the smell of discovery. Climb ruby mountain from the northeast side i located ruby mountain itself a large isolated peak at the far end of the park. I think that i began on the southeast side.

Until 1992 the site was an open collecting area when local land owners began charging a small fee to collect here. The western slope private property. A collection of rockhounding and arrowhead indian artifact field reports from across the nation. Thus rockhounders may want to stay on the public lands of this mountain.

Here are some good books. Again i pocketed some collecting bottles and slipped a small deformed crow bar through my belt loop. Spessartine garnet on rhyolite matrix ruby mountain colorado collected on 9 oct 2008. Review of colorado s ruby mountain campground located in the arkansas river headwaters recreation area and it is a real beauty.

Spessartine garnet on rhyolite matrix ruby mountain colorado collected on 9 oct 08. Hunting for some topaz and smoky q s in the tarryall. Other great rockhounding resources. But a fantastic time hiking with my son and collecting apache tears in perlite during an august 2015 trip to 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. Great stays great views and in interesting tale of how ruby.