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Name County Years Material Coordinates Adventure mine: Ontonagon: 1850–1920: copper: Alabastine Mine: Kent: 1907– gypsum: Arcadian mine: Houghton: 1898–1908: copper
This list of gold mines in the United States is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
The Back Forty Mine is a proposed open-pit metallic sulfide mine targeting gold and zinc deposits in Menominee County in the South Central part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula next to the Menominee River. Aquila Resources submitted its first permit applications to the state of Michigan in 2015. [1]
South Carolina had a number of lode gold mines along the Carolina Slate Belt. [42] The Haile deposit was discovered in Lancaster County in 1827, and at least 257,000 troy ounces (8,000 kg) of gold were extracted intermittently between then and 1942, when the gold mine was ordered closed as nonessential to the war effort. Beginning in 1951, the ...
Copper mines in Michigan (16 P) Pages in category "Mines in Michigan" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The mine is located on the Yellow Dog Plains in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. Eagle is the only primary nickel mine in the United States . The mine began production in fall 2014 and is expected to produce 440 million pounds of nickel, 429 million pounds of copper and small amounts of other metals (platinum, palladium ...
Gold mining can significantly alter the natural environment. Gold mining activities in tropical forests are increasingly causing deforestation along rivers and in remote areas rich in biodiversity. [77] [78] Mining has increased rainforest loss up to 70km beyond lease boundaries, causing nearly 11,670 km 2 of deforestation between 2005 to 2015 ...
The mine had not been worked for several years although its total production to date was 11,000 tons of stone for a yield of 18,000 ounces of gold. The mine had a 12h.p. engine and winding and pumping gear but was full of water. [1] The mine was advertised for sale by public auction at Herberton in May 1897.