Mine: Red Jacket Mine, Calumet, MI 

Began → Red Jacket Mine → Became

Operated for:

From: 1889

Owned by: Calumet & Hecla Mining Company

Produced: Copper Ore

Method: Underground via shaft.

Railroad connection: C&H railroad.

Stamp Mill/Smelter: C&H in Lake Linden.

Until: 1939. [GGAI]

Lifetime Production: 

Notes

Red Jacket Mine, known as the Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet & Hecla mine was begun in 1889 as a means to access to the lowest levels of the C&H mine on the north end of the district. The shaft is located just northwest of the village of Calumet.

This shaft was implemented to give the C&H a different access to their mines after a fire affecting their other shafts. In 1898, the shaft was the world's deepest mine at nearly 5,000 feet. It eventually reached 9,600 feet.

The surface plant was removed for scrap during World Wart II.

Note: "Red Jacket" was the original name for what is now known as Calumet, Michigan.

Image info: Top, a view of the new mine shaft building at Red Jacket, just north of Calumet. [UML]

Times Line

May 14, 1893. Red Jacket Shaft Mine, Calumet, Houghton Co. - Overwind of hoisting cage causing 10 fatalities.