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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 ...
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 ...
Pennsylvania Copper Mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County Petherick mine - Keweenaw County Pewabic mine - Pewabic, Houghton County; one shaft north of the Quincy Mine ; acquired by Quincy in 1891 and renamed to the Quincy #6 shaft
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]
The Old Mine Road is a 104-mile (167 km) long stretch of roads that connect from the Hudson River by Kingston, New York to the Delaware River in Sussex and Warren counties. [6] This district is a linear district along a 26-mile (42 km) section of the Old Mine Road in Sussex and Warren counties.
Calumet and Hecla Mine shaft No. 2, c. 1906. The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company was a major copper-mining company based within Michigan's Copper Country.In the 19th century, the company paid out more than $72 million in shareholder dividends, more than any other mining company in the United States during that period.
Two 100-year floods, one in September 2004 and one in April 2005, caused severe erosion to one of the contributing archeological sites, 36Pi04 (Manna Site) located at the confluence of the Raymondskill Creek and Delaware River. Approximately 20% of the site was compromised during the floods.