The Casteels Mines Company is a gold mine located in Douglas county, Oregon.
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Casteels Mines Company MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Casteels Mines Company
Secondary: Lee Creek Placer
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Oregon
County: Douglas
District: Umpqua
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Pacific Border Province
Physiographic Section: Klamath Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Workings): 2 MEN EMPLOYED ALL YEAR ROUND IN 1916. OUTPUT UNKNOWN; MINE SAID TO HAVE PAID WELL; LARGE GOLD NUGGETS TAKEN OUT WHICH RANGED FROM $3 TO $25 EACH. LEE CREEK & BUCK FORK PLACERS PRODUCED $150,000 GOLD BY 1898. WORKED PERIODICALLY THROUGH 1941
Comment (Geology): BEDROCK IS DECOMPOSED QUARTZ DIORITE. ; GEOL.DESC: LARGE BONES AND TUSKS OF ANIMALS HAVE BEEN WASHED FROM THE GRAVELS.
Comment (Location): 160 ACRES
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION UNKNOWN; MINE SAID TO HAVE PAID WELL; LARGE GOLD NUGGETS TAKEN OUT WHICH RANGED FROM $3 TO $25 EACH. LEE CREEK AND BUCK FORK PLACERS PRODUCED $150,000 GOLD BY 1898. WORKED PERIODICALLY THROUGH 1941
References
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1940 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - C, V. 1 , P. 131 .
Reference (Deposit): RAMP, L., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 75, P. 34
Reference (Deposit): PARKS, H. M. AND SWARTLEY A. M., 1916, HANDBOOK OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF OREGON: OREGON BUREAU OF MINES MINERAL RESOURCES OF OREGON, V. 2, NO. 4, P. 52
Reference (Production): PARKS AND SWARTLEY 16 : 52 AND RAMP 72 : 34
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