Wolverine Mine, Kearsarge, MI

Began → Wolverine Mine → Closed

Operated for 40 years.

From: 1882

Owned by: Wolverine Copper Mining Company, then Mohawk Mining Company

Produced: Copper Ore

Method: Underground mine shafts. (4 total, shaft #4 to 4,500 feet)

Railroad connection: Mineral Range, then Copper Range railroads.

Stamp Mill/Smelter: Gay, MI along Lake Superior.

Until: 1922

Lifetime Production: 

Notes

Mined the Kearsarge lode.

Wolverine Mine was first worked about 1882 and was located between the north and south shafts of the Kearsarge Mine in Houghton County.

The Wolverine Mine was started as a small scale operation in 1882 and ceased in 1884. It was reoganized as the Wolverine Copper Mining Company in 1889 and work began in 1890. The mine was absorbed by the Mohawk Mining Company in 1923 and closed permanently in 1925. The mine consisted of four shafts; No. 1 was abandoned early (it missed the lode). No. 2 was used to handle men and supplies. No. 3 was bottomed at approximately 4,000 feet on the incline. No. 4 was bottomed at approximately 4,500 feet on the incline. The Wolverine Mine sits between the North and South Kearsarge Mines and worked the Kearsarge lode. [MINDAT]

This mine had common ownership with the Mohawk Mine.

Time Line

1917. The Copper Range railroad begins serving the Mohawk and Wolverine mines, north of Calumet. [MIS-2024-1]