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#0183;#32;These 11 Rare Photos Show Michigans Copper Mining History Like Never Before. Most Michiganders know that our state played a large role in the earliest days of the copper mining industry, but its easy to forget that we once sat at the very forefront of this booming business.
quot;The gift shop, housed in one of the restored mine buildings, carries a vast selection of ore specimens from the area, books on pretty much anything you would want to know about Michigan history, as well as the usu...quot; Keweenaw Peninsula, one should take the time to go on a tour of one of the old mines and we would recommend the full tour option at the Quincy Mine as it is the best developed
The copperrich Keweenaw Peninsula, the northernmost part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, juts 40 miles into Lake Superior from its south shore. Although the copper mines are now silent, the natural elements including forests, low rolling hills, Lake Superior and countless inland lakes and streams, cool summer temperatures, and hay feverfree days make this area one of the nations
There were seven copper smelters built in the Copper Country in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Calumet and Hecla smelter Operated by Calumet and Hecla Mining Company and located north of Hubbell on the shore of Torch Lake, Detroit and Lake Superior Smelter Near Hancock, Lac La Belle Smelter In Lac La Belle, Michigan Smelter Located west of Houghton near Cole''s Creek on the
#0183;#32;While Upper Michigan still has so much to offer, much of its industry has ceased to exist. Starting in the mid1800s mining was the main industry of Upper Michigan. Upper Michigan had an abundance of copper and other minerals. Stamp Mills began popping up all over Upper Michigan.
#0183;#32;A Canadian mining company plans an openpit sulfide mine Upper Peninsula mine approved despite major zinc and copper within 150 feet of the river in the western on the
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the state of Michigan, the other being the Lower is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north, separated from the Canadian province of Ontario at the east end by the St. Marys River, and flanked by Lake
On a fall drive through the Upper Peninsula, the copper boom still echoes throughout the tours, scenic routes and historic sites. Grab a hard hat, a heavy coat and sturdy shoes. For the next hour or so, youre a copper miner in the Upper Peninsula, following in the footsteps of those who toiled here long ago. The complete mine effect sets in on the full tour once youre inside the shaft at
#0183;#32;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 Lakes and the Upper Peninsula.
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Copper mining is as ubiquitous to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as the automobile industry is to the Lower. Centuries before the first white man set foot in the New World, local natives used rocks to pound copper free from the earth, shaping it into goods t
Upper Peninsula Copper Mines, Mining, Ghost Towns, and some History * This boulder of float copper, one of the largest on display at 9,392 pounds, can be seen by Highway US41, in Calumet at the Keweenaw National Historic Park.
A Marquette tour guide tells us about copper mining in the Upper Peninsula which dates back 7,000 years at the Porcupine Mountains and Keweenaw Peninsula.
Copper mining has been almost continuous in the Keweenaw Peninsula area for the 150 years since then. During that time over 12 billion pounds of native copper have been mined .* Today, visitors are still enthralled by the passion and perseverance of the men and women who toiled deep below the surface to extract copper ore.
Many hammered copper knives, arrow and spear heads and axes were recovered at ancient mining sites. Some fine examples are on display at Fort Wilkins. In 1842, the Chippewa ceded all claims to 30,000 square miles of the Upper Peninsula to the United States Government.
The mining industry has been essential for Marquettes economy since its founding in 1849. The Upper Peninsula was considered a useless piece of inhospitable land up until Douglas Houghton discovered copper in the Keweenaw Peninsula in 1841. Soon after, William Burt discovered iron ore in the Upper Peninsula in 1844.
The Keweenaw Peninsula is a unique blend of natural and human history a rugged, picturesque land which is inhabited and loved by people of many nationalities. Their taproots are deeply imbedded in the conglomerate formations from which they and their ancestors wrested millions of pounds of copper, and they are duly proud of this great heritage.
History of Copper Mining in the Upper Penninsula, Michigan. 1900''s White Pine town site. 1900''s in siltstone units of the Nonesuch Formation were discovered and mined west of the town of Ontonagon in the western Upper Peninsula. The discovery by the Copper Range Company in the 1930s that lower grade zones of chalcocite mineralization
#0183;#32;For some in Michigan''s Upper Peninsula, a ghost town is home The end of copper mining left a lot of ghost towns in Michigan. But not all of them are deserted.
The Upper Peninsula supplies 90% of Americas copper: 1861: Keweenaw County is set and organized: 1862: 1,209 soldiers from the Upper Peninsula fight in the Civil War: 1863: Menominee County is set and organized: 1864: The Michigan Car Company was organized in 1864 by John S. Newberry: 1865
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