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Parts of the text on this page come from "Michigan Gold Mining in the Upper Peninsula" by Daniel Fountain. (1992, Lake Superior Port Cities, Inc.) (1992, Lake Superior Port Cities, Inc.) This material has been compiled for educational use only, and may not be reproduced without permission.

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. – is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan, the other being the Lower Peninsula.It 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 ...

Aug 13, 2019· Upper Peninsula mine approved despite major concerns from DEQ and EPA staff, records show. A Canadian mining company plans an open-pit sulfide mine .

Dec 18, 2008· 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.

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. Thousands of people travelled to the upper peninsula to work in the mines, similarly to the 1849 gold rush in California.

Apr 28, 2016· Here are some rare images of this massive open pit iron ore mine when it still operated. Includes a view looking into a cone gyratory crusher. ... The Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Mar 26, 2018· 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 traded across the continent.

Tumbled native copper nuggets from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This area known as the "Copper Country" or the "Keweenaw Peninsula" is known world wide for it's extremely pure and unique copper specimens. Great for resale or use for jewelry making, medical uses, metaphysical properties, decorative pieces, educational and many others.

"The tour was incredibly informative and offered a lot of variety-- from the ride into the mines to the tour underground, as well as the hoist building, gift shop, and the area tour guides as you left." 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, most complete ...

Dec 31, 2016· Mining continued throughout the early to mid-20th century, reaching its height in 1916, when Michigan produced over 250 million pounds of copper in one year. Flickr/upnorthmemories As modernization continued throughout the states, the mines slowly lost their influence in the area.

Eagle Mine is an underground, high-grade nickel and copper mine located in western Marquette County of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It is the first mine to be permitted under Michigan's Part 632 Non-Ferrous Mineral Mining Law. The mine is expected to produce 365 million pounds of nickel, and 295 million pounds of copper, and trace amounts of ...

Apr 02, 2019· According to "Michigan Gold: Mining in the Upper Peninsula" by author Daniel Fountain, more than 40 gold mines and prospects developed in the .

The ropes gold mine is the most important historic gold mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The mine has a great history that dates back to 1881 when gold was discovered at its site near the town of Ishpeming by Julius Ropes, a postmaster, a former druggist and a school board member.

Jul 15, 2019· Although almost all of gold which can be found in Michigan's Upper Midwest Peninsula is widely scattered glacier gold, there was one commercially profitable gold mine in the State of Michigan's history. This was the famous (well, it was the only successful one) Ropes Gold Mine.

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, you're 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 you're inside the shaft at ...

Slideshow: In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, mining waste threatens Buffalo Reef Mining waste and growing wetlands mean more mercury in fish in Upper Peninsula Funded by a $50,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a two-year pilot project will focus on the Mather B iron mine, which closed in 1979 and whose former administrative offices ...

Jan 07, 2014· This is an excerpt from an article written by my father (James M. Clem) in the early 1960's about Gold mining in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It was published in the Menominee Herald Leader. He was always interested in prospecting for gold and later in life he found small amounts of gold dry panning in the hills of New Mexico, where he retired.

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.

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This is a true historic tale of exploration, of hardship, of discovery, of gold and of shattered lost hopes in the Lake Superior region of Michigan. Michigan's Upper Peninsula was a treasure trove of wealth in minerals and gold was no exception. The true story of the lost Sauks Head Mines in Marquette County

Dec 18, 2018· The Upper Peninsula is added to Michigan after the state relinquished its claim to land around Toledo, Ohio. 1840 Douglass Houghton, state geologist of Michigan, publishes a report on the geology of the Upper Peninsula and describes the Keweenaw's copper deposits.

Mar 25, 2014· The Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan has been nationally famous for over 100 years for its history of highly productive copper mining. The local basalt is criss-crossed with many thick veins of native copper that made up the main ore of many of the mines.

Variety of books written on the history and geology of copper mining in the Keweenaw Peninsula. 202 Ontonagon Street, Ontonagon, MI 49934. Phone 906-884-6618. E-Mail for more information. Exploring the Keweenaw Peninsula. Site Search Engine. The Upper Peninsula Traveler

Parts of the text on this page come from "Michigan Gold Mining in the Upper Peninsula" by Daniel Fountain. (1992, Lake Superior Port Cities, Inc.) (1992, Lake Superior Port Cities, Inc.) This material has been compiled for educational use only, and may not be reproduced without permission.
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