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13-oz. nugget of native copper, Keweenaw County, Michigan.Size 9.5 x 8.6 x 1.7 cm. Native copper from the Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan about 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) long. Copper Country is highly unusual among mining districts in that the copper mined was predominantly in its elemental ("native") form, rather than in the form of compounds (mostly oxides and sulfides) that form the basis of the ...
The Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, formed by the Midcontinent Rift System, are the only sites in the United States with evidence of prehistoric aboriginal mining of copper. Artifacts made from this copper by these ancient indigenous people were traded as far south as present-day Alabama . [ 3 ]
Copper knife, spearpoints, awls, and spade made from copper deposits mined by Native Americans in Wisconsin from the Late Archaic period, 3000 BC-1000 BC. Native Americans were the first to mine and work the copper of Lake Superior and the Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan between 5000 BCE and 1200 BCE. The natives used this copper to ...
The Keweenaw Peninsula is the site of the most extensive known deposits of native copper in the world. Occurring here in relatively pure form, the red metal could be broken out of the rock and worked to make a wide variety of products, from jewelry and tools by its earliest miners to coins and electric wire by its final generations.
Humboldt mine - Copper Falls, Keweenaw County; Huron mine (originally the Houghton mine) - Hurontown, Houghton County; Iron City mine (originally the Empire Mine) - within the Mosquito District of Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County; Iroquois mine - Mohawk, Keweenaw County; Island mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Copper Harbor is located at the northern tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, bordering Lake Superior. It is one of the best natural harbors in Keweenaw County and was a quick focus of attention after copper was discovered on the peninsula in the 1830s. In the early 1840s, a copper rush took place that saw a flood of fortune-seekers moving to the ...
Copper Island is a local name given to the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula (projecting northeastward into Lake Superior at the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States of America), separated from the rest of the Keweenaw Peninsula by Portage Lake and the Keweenaw Waterway. [1] [2]
Phoenix is an unincorporated community in Keweenaw County, Michigan, United States. Phoenix lies at the junction of M-26 and U.S. Highway 41, approximately two miles (3.2 km) south of Eagle River, near the shores of Lake Superior. [2] Phoenix was the site of the Phoenix Mine, one of the earliest copper mines in the Keweenaw Peninsula.