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Humboldt mine - Copper Falls, Keweenaw County; Huron mine (originally the Houghton mine) - Hurontown, Houghton County; Iron City mine (originally the Empire Mine) - within the Mosquito District of Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County; Iroquois mine - Mohawk, Keweenaw County; Island mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
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 ...
Copper Falls mill - Southwest of Eagle Harbor, Michigan; Delaware mill - Delaware, Michigan; Dodgeville mill and pits - Dodgeville, Michigan; Humboldt mill - In Champion, Michigan. Planned to be used as a part of the new Eagle mine project; Huron mill; Isle Royale mill - Two miles east of Houghton, Michigan; Mohawk mill - In Gay, Michigan ...
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]
Lac La Belle (/ ˈ l æ k ˈ l ə b ɛ l / LACK lə-BELL; French: "Lake The Beautiful") is a small unincorporated community in Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The town was originally the site of a stamping plant for the copper mines of the Keweenaw, specifically the Mendota Mine and the Delaware Mine.
The county is part of Michigan's Copper Country region, an area where copper mining was prevalent from the 1840s to the 1960s. Polished native copper nugget from Keweenaw County. Keweenaw County copper mines were important producers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [5] Haven Falls, on Haven Creek near Lac La Belle
This proved successful in 1896 when Gay followed up on the discovery of copper by a lumberman named Ernest Koch, establishing the Mohawk Mine in nearby Mohawk to take advantage of the situation. [3] In need of an improvement in their copper production, the Mohawk Mining Company built the Mohawk Mining Company Stamp Mill in Gay in 1898. [2]
The Mohawk Mining Company was a major copper mining company, based in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, that was established in November 1898 and lasted until 1932. The company, between 1906 and 1932, paid out more than $15 million in shareholder dividends. [ 1 ]