This video describes the Ibex Spring area in Death Valley National Park, the way it was on 3-21-2018. This area is in the southern half of the Ibex Hills near the southern end of the Black Mountains. We drove south, from the the main junction in Shoshone, on Hwy #127 for 16.5 miles to the unmarked dirt Ibex Spring Road. We drove west on Ibex Spring Road for 2.8 miles where we took a right at a fork in the road. After a short distance there is a deep wash that we chose not to cross so we parked and walked about 2 miles to the Ibex Spring area. The walk is easy with scenic views of the Ibex Hills, Saddle Peak Hills and the Ibex Dunes.
In the mid 1930's John Moorehouse located 16 claims in the area around Ibex Spring. He worked them for a few years before leasing the Pleasanton and Moorehouse mines to the Sierra Talc Company. Over the next few years The Sierra Talc Co. developed the mines using a crew that lived in the camp by the spring.
Once we were at the spring we explored the remains of the miners camp where there are several cabins that were used during the 1940's and 1950's.
There are three talc mines in this area; the Pleasanton mine, the Monarch mine and the Moorehouse mine. We visited the Pleasanton Mine and saw the loading dock with an ore chute, an inclined shaft with a wooden head frame, and two tunnels. We were able to enter one of the tunnels to get deep inside the mine.
The hike was 7 miles long and had an elevation gain of about 1000 feet.
Here is a link to a video of the nearby Moorehouse Mine.
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