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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 through 1881, Michigan produced more than three-quarters of the nation's copper, and in 1869 produced more than 95% of the country's copper.
Name County Years Material Coordinates Adventure mine: Ontonagon: 1850–1920: copper: Alabastine Mine: Kent: 1907– gypsum: Arcadian mine: Houghton: 1898–1908: copper
Adventure mine - Greenland. Aetna Exploration Copper mine - Keweenaw County. Aetna mine - Keweenaw County. Agate Harbor mine - Agate Harbor, Keweenaw County. Agency mine - Keweenaw County. Ahmeek mine - Ahmeek, Keweenaw County. Albion mine (originally the Manhattan Mine) - Keweenaw County. Algomah mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County.
Adventure Mine. Coordinates: 46.776°N 89.083°W. (Redirected from Adventure mine) The Adventure Mine is a copper mine in Greenland Township, near Greenland, Michigan in Ontonagon County, Michigan [1] that operated from 1850 to 1920. [2] The mine has five shafts. It is open for tours from late May to mid-October, under the operation of the ...
John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area – Essex. The Park Homestead was a station on the Underground Railroad. [9][10] John Freeman Walls Historic Site – Lakeshore. [1][2] John Freeman Walls, left his enslavers in North Carolina and settled in Canada. The Refugee Home Society supplied the money to buy land and he built a cabin.
Minesota Mine. Native copper on matrix from the Minesota Mine. Size 6.8 x 6.0 x 4.8 cm. / 46.729933°N 89.174933°W / 46.729933; -89.174933. The Minesota Mine is a former copper mine near Rockland, Ontonagon County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The Minesota (the single "n" in the name was a mistake in the ...
Kent County Inventory of Underground Mines ; Mapping the Michigan Natural Storage Gypsum Mine Using a Geological Information System ; Alabastine Mine (with photos) CHAPTER XXXVIII: GYPSUM AND PLASTER OF PARIS. - Baxter, Albert, History of the City of Grand Rapids, New York and Grand Rapids: Munsell & Company, Publishers, 1891. (Name Index)
Gogebic Range. The Gogebic Range is an elongated area of iron ore deposits located within a range of hills in northern Michigan and Wisconsin just south of Lake Superior. It extends from Lake Namakagon in Wisconsin eastward to Lake Gogebic in Michigan, or almost 80 miles. Though long, it is only about a half mile wide and forms a crescent ...