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Mine: Michigan Mine
Combined mines → Michigan Mine → Became
Operated for:
From: Around 1900
Owned by:
Produced: Copper Ore
Method: Underground shafts
Railroad connection: Mineral Range railroad
Stamp Mill/Smelter: On Keweenaw Bay.
Until:
Lifetime Production:
Image info: A 1920's view of the Michigan Mine shaft house. [Greg Bunce collection]
Notes
The Michigan Mine was located in Section 15 of T50N-R39W. The Mine was on both the MILW and DSSA Keweenaw Branch. The Minesotr (sic), Rockland and Superior mines were combined to create the Michigan Mine. The mine site and shafts were located southeast of the Village of Rockland.
The DSSA line was truncated back to Riddle Jct. in 1913. The DSSA line west to Michigan Mine was a steep incline, from 417 feet (above Lake Superior) to 675 feet, a total increase of 258 feet in about two miles. [DSSM]
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1897. The Michigan Mine is closed at Amasa may be sold. The mine has been inactive for a couple of years. It has two shafts, the deeper being 150 feet, and promising ore bodies have been met with. The ore is of a non-Bessemer grade. The mine has no railroad connections and the ore is hauled in wagons to the North-Western tracks. [DD-1897-0501] Ed. Note: Possibly two different mines.
1906. The Michigan mine, near Rockland, resumed operations with a small force of men. The miners offered to do their own tramming and they went down under those conditions. All is quiet in the town. The strikers found responsible by the coroner's jury for the fatalities in the riot of last week are still under guard in the Town Hall. A large force of armed deputies is maintained to prevent further trouble. [LAS-1906-0811]
1907. February. Production of the Michigan mine at Rockland was reduced to some extent last month by storms and heavy fall of snow, which crippled the service of the Mineral Range railroad. No rock was shipped to the mill for a period of four days this week in view of the continuing inclement weather. [DFP-1907-0204]