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Byars Southwest

Past Producer in McClain county in Oklahoma, United States with commodities Copper, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10022020
MRDS ID DE01820
Record type Site
Current site name Byars Southwest
Alternate or previous names Marcy, Bob Jones, Charles Baird

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -97.09947, 34.85622 (WGS84)
Elevation 303
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position GO ABOUT 3.5 MI W. OF BYARS ON OKLAHOMA HWY. 59; THEN S. ON OK 133, 1.9 MI, NEAR MCCLAIN-GARVIN CO. LINES, THEN WALK E. 2300 FT TO RAVINE, TO ADIT AND SURFACE PIT ABOVE, ON E. SIDE OF RAVINE, ABOUT 400 FT N. OF GARVIN CO. LINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

McClain(county)

Oklahoma(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Byars(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pauls Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ardmore(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Washita(hydrologic unit)

Washita(hydrologic accounting unit)

Red-Washita(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oklahoma McClain

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Indian 005N 002E 33 NEAR CENTER OF SE OF SE OF SW Oklahoma

Comments on the location information

  • C.A. MERRITT (JUNE 1940, OPEN FILE NO. 0342) LOCATED WORKINGS IN C-NW-NW-SE OF SEC. 33-5N-2E. M.H. WRIGHT (1956, P. 484) LOCATED AN ARRASTRA WITH A TREE GROWING IN THE MIDDLE NEAR C-33-5N-2E. C.A. MERRIT (SEPT. 1940, OGS MINERAL REPT. 8, P. 6) LOCATED THE MINE IN THE SW1/4 OF SEC. 33. C.A. MERRITT (JUNE 1940) MENTIONS THAT THE ARRASTRA WAS KNOWN ABOUT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. D.K. HALE (1981B, CHRONICLES OF OKLA., V. 59, NO. 3, P. 306, 314, 319) INDICATES THAT THIS AREA WAS KNOWN BY 1889 OR BEFORE. SEVERAL LOCAL NEWSPAPER ARTICLES HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE AREA, REFERRING TO THIS AS A GOLD MINE. J.S. REDFIELD (1927, OGS BULLETIN 42, P. 116) MENTIONS THAT 29 TONS OF CU ORE WERE REMOVED IN AUG. 1913, AND THAT 1300 OZ OF SILVER WERE RECOVERED. MR. CHARLES BAIRD, OF KANSAS CITY, MO., SAID THAT HE WORKED THIS DEPOSIT IN 1897-1898, AND WASHED IN CANADIAN RIVER, AND SENT TO ARGENTINE DISTRICT, KANSAS, FOR SMELTING. HE DID SOME DRILLING ALSO. R.L. HOOVER, SOUTHWESTERN MACHINERY CO.
  • OF OKLAHOMA CITY, IN LOOKING FOR TREASURE, BULLDOZED A TRENCH, 125 FT LONG BY 9-18 FT WIDE AND 25 FT DEEP, NEXT TO ADIT IN VALLEY, IN 1940-1941.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MARCY (1850) SENT A WAGON LOAD TO FT. SMITH TO NEW ORLEANS TO LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, FOR SMELTING, WHICH PAID FOR TRANSPORTATION [MARCY, 1866, P. 122]. IN 1897-1898, SOME ORE WAS SHIPPED TO ARGENTINE, KANSAS. IN AUG. 1913, 29 TONS OF ORE WAS SHIPPED AND 1300 OZ OF AG WAS RECOVERED. IN 1914, C.T. CRISWELL OF BYARS SHIPPED 190 TONS, WITH 6187 OZ OF AG, VALUED AT $3,421, OR 33-37 OZ AG/TON OF ORE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Sandstone Gangue

Analytical data

Result 2.35% CU
Result LESS THAN 20 PPM AG, CR, V
Result 33-37 OZ AG/TON OF CONCENTRATE IN 1913-1914

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Wellington Formation
    Rock description Wellington Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Ryan Sandstone No. 2, About 50 Ft Above Base Of Wellington Formation
    Rock description Ryan Sandstone No. 2, About 50 Ft Above Base Of Wellington Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -97.09947, 34.85622
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Monoclinal Low Westward Dip, About 0.5w

Ore body information

  • Name UNNAMED
    General form CHANNEL
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 328.08M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to bottom 6.1M

Comments on the ore body information

  • Orebody is in an outcrop

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Reducing Environment, Stratigraphic Channel

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE RYAN SANDSTONES ERODE INTO ESCARPMENTS IN BADLANDS, AND THESE BEDS PROBABLY HAVE COPPER MINERALIZATION OVER A LARGER AREA. THIS IS PROBABLY WHY THERE ARE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS OF THE WORKINGS. GEOLOGY BY HART (1974).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1851
Discoverer Bob Jones, Black Beaver
Year of first production 1850
Year of last production 1913
Production years 1850-1913 - IRREGULAR

Mining district

District name Byars

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner C. T. Criswell
    Home office Byars
    First year 1913
    Last year 1914

Production statistics

  • Year 1914
    Period 1913-1914
    Description Cp_Grade: ^2.35%
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 2wt-pct
  • Year 1914
    Period 1913-1914
    Description Cp_Grade: ^33-37 Oz/Ton Of Concentrate Worth $4206
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Conc. Silver Silver 988g/mt

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • INACTIVE SINCE ABOUT 1914

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Name of workings ADIT
    Area 2.024HA
    Length 6.1M
    Width 3.05M
    Height 1.52M
    Overall depth 6.1M
    Overall length 304.8M
    Overall width 60.96M
  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Name of workings OUTCROP
  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Name of workings TRENCH
    Length 45.72M
    Width 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • THERE MAY BE MORE WORKINGS IN SEC. 33, AND THE COPPER COULD OCCUR OVER SEVERAL HUNDRED ACRES, BUT IS COVERED.

Comments on development

  • RANDOLPH MARCY (1850), CHARLES BAIRD (AUG. 1897-APR. 1898), AND C.T. CRISWELL (1913-1914) WORKED THESE DEPOSITS. MARCY PROBABLY INTRODUCED THE ARRASTRA IN 1850. CRISWELL'S DEVELOPMENT IS DESCRIBED BY BUTLER AND DUNLOP (1916, P. 114). BAIRD, A BANKER OF KANSAS CITY, MO., WROTE A LETTER TO DOTT, QUOTED IN MERRITT AND DOTT (1940).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HART, D.L., 1974, USGS AND OGS, HYDROLOGIC ATLAS 3.

  • Deposit

    BRANSON, C.C., BURWELL, A.L., AND CHASE, G.C., 1955, OGS MINERAL REPORT 27, 22 P. (P. 17-18).

  • Deposit

    MARCY, R.B., 1866, THIRTY YEARS ARMY LIFE ON THE BORDER: NEW YORK, HARPER & BROTHERS, 442 P. (P. 121-122).

  • Deposit

    REDFIELD, J.S., 1927, OGS BULLETIN 42, 130 P. (P. 116).

  • Deposit

    MERRITT, C.A., 1940, OGS MINERAL REPORT NO. 8, 15 P. (P. 6).

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, M.H., 1956, CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA, V. 34, NO. 4, P. 484.

  • Deposit

    HALE, D.K., 1981B, CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA, V. 59, NO. 3, P. 304-319 (P. 306, 314, 319).

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., AND DUNLOP, J.P., 1916, USGS MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE U.S., 1914, PT. 1, METALS: P. 27-124 (BYARS, P. 29, 31, 106, 114).

  • Deposit

    STROUD, R.B., MCMAHAN, A.B., STROUP, R.K., AND HIBPSHMAN, M.H., 1970, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 7422, 103 P. (P. 37).

  • Deposit

    MERRITT, C.A., JUNE 1940, OPEN FILE NO. 0342, OGS.

  • Deposit

    FAY, R.O., MARCH 1973, OGS, SAMPLE NO. 53; ANALYZED BY DAVE FOSTER.

  • Deposit

    GOULD, C.N., HUTCHISON, L.L., AND NELSON, GAYLORD, 1908, OGS BULLETIN 1, 88 P. (P. 79).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AN ADIT IS ABOUT 20 FT OR MORE LONG E-W IN E. SIDE OF RAVINE. IT IS ABOUT 10 FT WIDE AND 5 FT HIGH. A TRENCH ABOVE, TO E., IS ABOUT 25 FT WIDE AND 150 FT LONG N-S, ABOUT 100 FT E. OF ADIT, AND ABOUT 20 FT ABOVE TOP OF ADIT.
Deposit MORE THAN 220 TONS OF ORE WAS REMOVED BY C.T. CRISWELL (1913-1914), AND ABOUT 7487 OZ OF AG WERE RECOVERED.
Deposit BLACK BEAVER (1850) SHOWED SOME CONCRETIONS TO RANDOLPH MARCY WHILE AT OLD FORT ARBUCKLE (1 MI W. OF BYARS). MARCY SENT SEVERAL WAGON LOADS OF THE ORE TO ENGLAND FOR SMELTING AND MADE A PROFIT. BOB JONES, A CHICKASAW, OWNED THE PROPERTY. MARCY (1966, P. 121-122) MENTIONS THIS IN HIS BOOK. MENTIONED BY BRANSON, BURWELL, AND CHASE (1955, P. 17-18), GOULD AND OTHERS (1908, P. 79), AND STROUD AND OTHERS (1970, P. 37).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1992 Fay, Robert O. Oklahoma Geological Survey

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