Red Rock Mine MT: Ruby Valley garnet buckets

Where: West · North America · approx. 45.31, -112.1 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: fee screening operation on MT-287 near Alder washing garnet gravels from the Ruby River placer district

What turns up: Montana almandine garnets, occasional sapphire-family accessory minerals, polished stock in the gallery

Access: Licensed / permit.

Fee dig: $25 per bucket (about an hour of screening), $35 large bucket, $20 take-home sack, cash only, no bucket sales after 4 pm

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.