Maury Mountains Mine

Past Producer in Crook county in Oregon, United States with commodity Mercury
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  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 10040419
MRDS ID M055191
Record type Site
Current site name Maury Mountains Mine
Alternate or previous names Eickemeyer
Related records 10128177

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.43054, 44.10401 (WGS84)
Elevation 1280

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mule Deer Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Prineville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bend(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Crooked(hydrologic unit)

Deschutes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 017S 019E 10 S Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 480 ACRES OF DEEDED LAND AND 8 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Mercury Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Clay Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic Alteration, Silicification, Carbonatization

Analytical data

Result ORE RAN 240 LB PER TON. YIELD OF 8 LB HG PER FT OF WORKINGS. 3 TO 19 LB ORE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Clarno Formation, Andesite, Tuff
    Rock description Clarno Formation, Andesite, Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.43054, 44.10401

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR BODIES, POCKETS, LENSES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Intersections, Bends In Fault Surfaces

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ANDESITIC FLOWS AND TUFFS OF EOCENE CLARNO FM. TILTED AND ERODED. SUBSEQUENT VULCANISM FORMED ANDESITIC PLUGS, DIKES, AND FLOWS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1930

Mining district

District name Maury Mountain District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. F. Taylor
    First year 1977
  • Type Owner
    Owner F. C . And H. W Eickemeyer
    First year 1954

Comments on the production information

  • AN ADDITIONAL 20 FLASKS PRODUCED BY TAYLOR IN 1969-1970.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1371.6M
    Overall depth 103.63M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS AS OF MID 1940'S. SOME ADDITIONAL TRENCHING AND DRIFTING WAS DONE UNDER A OME LOAN IN 1971.

Comments on development

  • 8 TON RETORT (1954)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 55, P.154

  • Deposit

    BROWN, R.E., WATERS, A.C., AND WALKER, G.W., 1945, THE QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE MAURY MOUNTAINS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, USGS UNPUBLISHED REPORT

  • Deposit

    STEPHENSON, E.L., 1943, GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS IN THE OCHOCO QUICKSILVER DISTRICT, USGS BULL. 940-C, P.91

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COARSELY CRYSTALLINE AND FINE-GRAINED AGGREGATES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1974 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1980 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
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