Ruby Mountain Colorado Garnets

Where early prospectors mistook red garnets for the gem mineral ruby probably wishful thinking.

Ruby mountain colorado garnets.

The range reaches a maximum elevation of 11 387 feet 3 471 m on the summit of ruby dome. Ruby mountain adventure no rubies topaz or garnets but a fantastic time hiking with my son and collecting apache tears in perlite during an august 2015 trip to colorado. The ruby mountains are a mountain range primarily located within elko county with a small extension into white pine county in nevada united states most of the range is included within the humboldt toiyabe national forest. To the north is secret pass and the east humboldt range and from there the.

Like so many other mountains in the mineral rich areas of colorado s ranges ruby is streaked with intense hues most notably red though yellows and oranges and darker colors mark it as well. Ruby mountain whether it was named for its coloration or for what miners found or hoped to find around it is a striking peak. The perlite can be broken apart into iridescent botryoidal spheres of black obsidian known as marekanite. Although the upper portion of ruby mountain is rhyolitic the base is a repository for masses of glassy perlite.

Ruby mountain colorado is not the only place in the u. Garnet and topaz specimens can be found by sorting the talus rock at the base of the cliffs.