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The Delaware Mine is located off U.S. Highway 41, 12 miles (19 km) in Grant Township, Keweenaw County, south of Copper Harbor, Michigan and is a Keweenaw Heritage Site. [1] [2] The Delaware Copper Mine provides tours of one of the oldest copper mines in the Keweenaw, [2] dating back to 1847. The mine had five shafts, with the deepest reaching ...
Delaware Mine entrance. The Delaware Copper Mine is located off U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), 12 miles (19 km) south of Copper Harbor, Michigan. [4] The Delaware Copper Mine provides tours of one of the oldest copper mines in the Keweenaw, [4] dating back to 1846. [18] The mine had five shafts, with the deepest reaching 1,400 feet (430 m). [18]
The Pahaquarry Copper Mine is an abandoned copper mine located on the west side of Kittatinny Mountain presently in Hardwick Township [2] in Warren County, New Jersey in the United States. Active mining was attempted for brief periods during the mid-eighteenth, mid-nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries but was never successful despite ...
Gratiot Copper mine - Gratiot location, Keweenaw County; Dana mine - Central; Datolite mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County; Delaware mine - the abandoned town of Delaware, Keweenaw County, twelve miles south of Copper Harbor Delaware Fissure mine; Dover mine - Dover location; Dorchester Mining Company mine - Houghton County
The southern section of Old Mine Road provides a key access from Interstate 80 and several of the park's recreation and cultural sites. It also serves as an important route for emergency services ...
The Dutch, the Indians & the Quest for Copper: Pahaquarry & the Old Mine Road. (West Orange, New Jersey: Seton Hall University Museum, 1996). ISBN 978-0-935137-02-6; Snell, James P. History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881).
The Keweenaw Copper Company built the first Keweenaw Central Railroad in 1906 to revitalize mines in the peninsula. At Lac La Belle the Delaware Mine in the 1880s had built a narrow-gauge railroad and a stamp mill. This was used as the basis for their railroad. [5] Owned by Keweenaw Copper Company. [6]
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