Ibex Mine

Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Mercury, Arsenic, Antimony
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036567
MRDS ID M025433
Record type Site
Current site name Ibex Mine
Related records 10274407

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.29938, 44.81263 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Ireland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Powder(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 009S 036E 04 NE Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Marcasite Ore
Pyrargyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Bald Mountain Batholith
    Rock description Bald Mountain Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
    Rock description Elkhorn Ridge Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.29938, 44.81263

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 60 E
    Dip 60-80 SE
    Length 4267.2M
    Width 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • COMPOSITE QUARTZ VEIN CONSISTING OF A SILICIFIED ARGILLITE - QUARTZ BRECCIA CUT BY STRANDS OF QUARTZ

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cracker Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Ibex Minerals Inc.
    Home office Baker, Or.
    First year 1981

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 182.88M
    Overall length 822.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • OVER 5500 FT ON THREE LEVELS. LOWER TUNNEL FOLLOWS VEIN FOR OVER 2700 FT. THREE ORE SHOOTS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED.

Comments on development

  • PRESENTLY REOPENNING WORKINGS FOR SAMPLING PROGRAM (1981)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FERNS, M.L. AND OTHERS, 1982, MAP OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE MT. IRELAND QUADRANGLE, BAKER AND GRANT COUNTIES, OREGON; ODGMI MAP (IN PREPARATION)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P. 75

  • Deposit

    HEWITT, D.F., 1931, ZONAL RELATIONS OF THE LODES OF THE SUMPTER QUADRANGLE, ALME TRANS., V. 5, P. 312-330

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON; USGS ANN. REPT. NO. 22, P. 667

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PRODUCTION RECORDS NOT AVAILABLE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit PART OF THE BALD MTN-IBEX VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1981 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references