While the beginning of South Range was officially platted in 1902 by the Wheal Kate Mining Company, the history of the south range of the Michigan copper range actually began many years prior. In the mid to late 1800s, Slovenia, Finland, England, and Italy were mired deep in poverty. My own family's history in Slovenia was affected by the …
Michigan copper was found among Native Americans as far south as the Gulf of Mexico and from the Rockies to the Alleghenies. Curiously, however, the use and mining of copper were unknown to the tribes in this region when the Europeans came to the Great Lakes in the seventeenth century.
The Keweenaw peninsula is full of mining ruins. We found a smoke stack probably constructed in the late 1800's. We found a copper mine shaft. "Copper Country" is located in the Keweenaw Peninsula in Northern Michigan. 40,000 years ago two mile thick ice sheets smashed mountains at a triple junction. There were three tectonic plates ...
Loosely translated as "strength of will" and "courage in the face of adversity," the Finnish word "SISU" encapsulates the spirit of the Ironwood community. The ethos of "sisu" is evident in the stories of Ironwood's past, from its early days as a mining town- to World War I where Ironwood residents gave their lives in service ...
Fayette, Michigan was once a busy iron smelting town. Today, the remains of that history are a popular destination for discovering the past!
Mining History Sites: Michigan has a long mining history. Copper, iron, gold, silver, gypsum, slate, salt, coal and limestone have been mined in Michigan. This is a list of some of the mining history sites related to mining in Michigan. We provide this list for students, alumni and other visitors who may drift into our web site in the pursuit ...
Michigan Gold Mine, Gold Lake Mine and Superior Gold Mining Company produced fine museum specimens of native gold from the area. Other prominent mines during that time were Peninsular Gold Mining Company, Grummett, Swains, Mocklers, Grayling and Giant Mines, but all had limited production.
The Ontonagon County Historical Society was founded in 1957 to collect and preserve the artifacts of the county's history and to educate the public about that history and related topics. The museum building …
Copper I. MICHIGAN'S COPPER DEPOSITS AND MINING. The first mineral boom in the United States occurred in 1843 when people from all over the continent began to chase the copper, silver and iron of Michigan's upper peninsula. These mines were in commercial operation for more than a hundred years. Michigan has produced over 14 billion pounds ...
The fire claims the lives of 30 men and boys. While this remains the deadliest single accident in the history of Keweenaw mining, men continue to be killed or seriously injured from cave-ins, misfired explosions, and other mining accidents almost daily.
A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People: Its Mining, Lumber and Agricultural Industries, Volume 1
Discover the History of Bessemer, Michigan Keep Bessemer's Past Alive The above photo is Sophie Street, Bessemer Michigan, 1938 For the past several years our volunteers have been collecting materials that remember the culture of the immigrants who settled in Bessemer Township. Their farming, logging and mining brought the railroads which …
The next year, a party of men from Jackson, Michigan organized the Jackson Mining Company. In the vicinity of the 1844 discovery site, they discovered another location and opened the Jackson mine.
Copper mining in the Upper Peninsula boomed, and from 1845 until 1887 (when it was exceeded by Butte, Montana) the Michigan Copper Country was the nation's leading producer of copper. In most years from 1850 …
Michigan Iron Ore. On September 19, 1844, near present-day Negaunee, William Austin Burt and his surveying crew first discovered iron ore in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Within a few years iron ore mines were opened across the central Upper Peninsula. The first mine was the Jackson Mine near Negaunee. Early mines faced an …
"The Study of Michigan History," Michigan History 18 (October 1929): 620-626. "History of Marquette, Marquette ounty and the Lake Superior Region," Mining Journal, 10 October 1930.
The Caledonia property was first worked by ancient peoples thousands of years ago. Evidence of this occurs as numerous mining pits, stone mauls, and copper artifacts found over the last several hundred years. In 1863, the Caledonia Mining Company was formed by Dr. John McKenzie's reorganization of the Nebraska Mine, and acquiring the adjacent ...
Discover the hidden treasures of Michigan with our comprehensive gold in Michigan map. Unearth an adventure in the land of the Great Lakes!
The Michigan Mine Shafts section Web pages are produced by volunteer help from persons interested in Michigan Mining History and Michigan Tech Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences Department history.
Historic Mining Records (USGS) Michigan has 1,853 identified mines listed in The Diggings™. The most commonly listed primary commodities in Michigan mines are Iron, Copper, and Silver . At the time these mines were surveyed, 215 mines in Michigan were observed to have ore mineralization in an outcrop, shallow pit, or isolated drill hole ...
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this image of iron mines in northern Michigan on September 11, 2013. Although the mined areas look like one facility from a satellite …
By 1848 there was mining fever here and many of the 49ers who were in the California gold rush of 1949 learned a lot about mining here under the Cliff. Read more in History of the Cliff Mine by Sean Gohman or in Michigan Geological Survey Bulletin #1.
The village of Oxford, Michigan (motto: "Small. Done Right") lies atop one of these gigantic gravel veins. Admittedly this was due more to luck than any mineral nous in the early settlers ...
Wiki page on Michigan 1800s History including Coal Mining - 1800 to 1950 in Michigan.
The Quincy Mine, on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, is one more than 1,000 old hard-metal mines across the nation with the potential to add reliable energy storage to the mix, offering even more possibilities. TS: Throughout Michigan's Upper Peninsula, mining is important to the heritage of communities.
In 1854 the Northwestern Mining Company of Detroit (The Northwestern Company) needed cash to continue mining its lands near Eagle Harbor. Trustees decided to sell the west 320 acres of their mine site to the newly organized Central Mining Company. An ancient mining pit had been found on that land. It was common knowledge in the Keweenaw that these …
Mining for Michigan: The History of Mining along the Great Lakes and the Upper Peninsula - Kindle edition by Charles River Editors. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Mining for Michigan: The History of Mining along the Great …
In 1841 this was the only mine in the state where coal was excavated for commercial use. It was reported that from an eight-by-nine-foot area McArthur mined 460 bushels of coal and shale in one year. In the 1860s a group of New York investors purchased McArthur's mining interests and land and on April 22, 1865, opened the …
In 1997, the Detroit Salt Company, LLC, purchased the mine from Crystal Mines, Inc. and began salt production in the fall of 1998. Although the leather and food industries were once large customers to the Detroit mine, road deicing salt is the only product the mine currently provides. The Detroit Salt Company, LLC, employs the latest mining ...
The U.P. Mining town of Republic can be found in Republic Township, Marquette County. The whole reason the town existed was to accommodate mine workers, giving them and their families a place to live while they toiled underground in the hot, claustrophobic mines. The Republic Mine ended up being one of the most successful in …
