Owyhee Mountains

{{Short description|Mountain range in Idaho and Oregon, USA}}

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| name = Owyhee Mountains

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| photo = Owyhee Mountains.jpg

| photo_caption = Owyhee Mountains and Noble Horse Barn viewed from the east

| country = United States

| state = Idaho, and Oregon

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| district = Owyhee County, Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon

| topo_map = Cinnabar Mountain

| topo_maker = USGS

| range = Owyhee Mountain Range

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| range_coordinates = {{coord|42|58|51|N|116|39|31|W|type:mountain_region:US|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| highest = Hayden PeakCinnabar Mountain, Idaho, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1990

| highest_location =Owyhee County, Idaho

| elevation_m = 2561

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| length_mi = 40| length_orientation = NNW-SSE

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| map = Idaho

| map_caption = location of Owyhee Mountains in Idaho{{cite gnis|id=374291|name=Owyhee Mountains}}

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The Owyhee Mountains are a mountain range in Owyhee County, Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon.

Mahogany Mountain and the associated volcanic craters of the Lake Owyhee volcanic field are in the Owyhee Mountains of Oregon just east of the Owyhee Reservoir on the Owyhee River.Cummings, Michael L., et al., Stratigraphic and structural evolution of the middle Miocene synvolcanic Oregon-Idaho graben, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2000; v. 112, no. 5; pp. 668-682

The southeastern end of the range including the old mining area west of Silver City is referred to as the Silver City Range.Murphy, Idaho, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986 About {{convert|8.3|km}} west of Silver City is the De Lamar ghost town in Jordan Creek below the mine workings on De Lamar Mountain to the south. The area was active in the late 1880s. In the 1970s mining began again with the development of open pit silver–gold mines on De Lamar Mountain.Bonnichsen, Bill; Epithermal Gold and Silver Deposits Silver City–De Lamar District, Idaho, University of Idaho, Idaho Geological Survey, Technical Report 83-4, 1983 [http://www.idahogeology.org/PDF/Technical_Reports_(T)/TR-83-4.pdf PDF]De Lamar, Idaho, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1990