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Sign commemorating the Ontonagon Boulder Location of Ontonagon Boulder. The Ontonagon Boulder (/ˌɒntəˈnɑːɡən ˈboʊldəɹ/, Chippewa: Misko-biiwaabik) is a 3,708-pound (1,682 kg) boulder of native copper originally found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States, and now in the possession of the Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian ...
The Victoria Mine is the name given to a series of copper mines located in Rockland Township, Ontonagon County, in Michigan's Copper Country. It was near this location that a large piece of float copper, known as the Ontonagon Boulder, was found. The mine operated off and on from 1849 until its final closure in 1921. [1] Most of the metal found ...
Many copper mines have existed in the Copper Country of the U.S. state of Michigan. These include both large-scale commercial ventures and small operations. These include both large-scale commercial ventures and small operations.
La Cabana Mexican Grill has opened in the former Copper River Grill location at 1302 Hendersonville Road in Asheville. On Dec. 20, La Cabana Mexican Grill opened in its place at 1302 ...
Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-3458-4., focuses on three companies, Calumet & Hecla, Copper Range, and Quincy, in a study of native copper mining and copper-sulfide mining on Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Thurner, Arthur W. (1994).
The Copper Range Company was a major copper-mining company in the Copper Country of Michigan, United States. It began as the Copper Range Company in the late 19th century as a holding company specializing in shares in the copper mines south of Houghton, Michigan. The company was bought by Louisiana Land and Exploration in 1977.
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