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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
The Nonesuch Mine is an abandoned copper mine and small ghost town in the southeast corner of the Porcupine Mountains State Park in Carp Lake Township, Ontonagon County, near Silver City, Michigan, United States. The area was given its name soon after Ed Less discovered the Nonesuch vein of copper on the Little Iron River in 1865. [1]
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.
Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Victims can fall into hidden shafts, get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines.
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.
The Central Mine Historic District is a historic district located off US 41 in Upper Michigan.The mine itself was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1958, [3] while the surrounding district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
An abandoned mine refers to a former mining or quarrying operation that is no longer in use and has no responsible entity to finance the cost of remediation and/or restoration of the mine feature or site. Such mines are typically left unattended and may pose safety hazards or cause environmental damage without proper maintenance.
Van Wyk attributed the spike in illegal mining to the thousands of abandoned mines left unclosed by large-scale companies and multinational corporations. “We’ve got about 6,000 abandoned mines ...