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The White Pine mine produced copper until 1995. In its early days the company was known for its use of advanced mining and transport systems (not all of which worked very well) including the Dashaveyor , a high speed transportation system, and what was at the time the world's largest hard rock tunneling machine to be sold to a mining company. [ 4 ]
With a population of six hundred, it was renamed for mine promoter W. H. Hamilton. The post office first opened for business on August 10, 1868 [4] while the community was still part of Lander County, Nevada. White Pine County was formed in March 1869, and Hamilton was selected as the first county seat.
White Pine mine - White Pine, Ontonagon County; the last mine to close in the Copper Country, in 1995; Whittlesey mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County; Winona mine - Winona, Houghton County; Winthrop mine - Central; Wolverine Mine - Wolverine; Wyandot mine - Twin Lakes, Houghton County; Wyoming mine - Wyoming (Helltown)
The White Pine Mine, just east of the state park in Ontonagon County, was the last copper-focused mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It closed in 1997 and Highland Copper plans to repurpose ...
White Pine is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Ontonagon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The CDP had a population of 474 at the 2010 census. [3] White Pine is located within Carp Lake Township. Much of White Pine was developed in the 1950s as a company town for miners at the White Pine mine. Mining ...
Iowa has more than 13,000 acres of abandoned mine land. The department has reclaimed 120 sites and currently has more than 30 sites in the planning or construction phase. There are 140 sites ...
In 1955 the Copper Range Company began large-scale mining at the White Pine mine, near the old Nonesuch mine. The deposit is a stratiform deposit in the lower 15 m of the Proterozoic Nonesuch Shale and the upper 2 m of the underlying Copper Harbor Conglomerate.
The Western North Carolina town possesses the world’s most pure quartz, making its two mine operations essential to the production of semiconductors. Largest Spruce Pine quartz mine restarts ...