Ruby Lee Mill Site is located in the

Hexie Mountains The Hexie Mountains are a desert mountain range located in Joshua Tree National Park, in southern California. Geography The range is located in the higher northern Mojave Desert area of the park. They are north of the Cottonwood Mountains, and so ...

, in the Mojave Desert. The site is within Joshua Tree National Park, in

Riverside County, California Riverside County is a County (United States), county located in the southern California, southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most ...

. The Ruby Lee Mill was established in 1935. A

stamp mill A stamp mill (or stamp battery or stamping mill) is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores. Breaking material down is a type of unit operatio ...

is used to crush ore in order to extract minerals. This mill was probably used to extract gold and silver. There are a number of mines in the vicinity. Water is needed in the milling process, and there is a nearby well, which is now dry. The milling machine is no longer present, but sat on a concrete foundation. File:Ruby Lee Mill rock.jpg, Rock at Ruby Lee File:Ruby lee mill site mill.jpg, Mill foundation at Ruby Lee File:Ruby lee mill site well.jpg, Well at Ruby Lee File:Ruby lee mill site building.jpg, Building at Ruby Lee

References

Joshua Tree National Park History of the Mojave Desert region History of Riverside County, California Mining in California Stamp mills {{RiversideCountyCA-geo-stub