Mine: Lake Mine, MI

Belt Mine property → Lake Mine → Ended

Operated for 10 years.

From: 1909

Owned by: Lake Copper Company.

Produced: Copper Ore

Method: Under ground mine shaft.

Railroad connection: Copper Range railroad.

Stamp Mill/Smelter: 

Until: 1919

Lifetime Production: 

Notes

The Lake Mine, near Mass, MI was also known as the Great Western and the Bohemian Mine.

46° 46' 0'' North , 89° 2' 14'' West

An underground copper mine consisting of one shaft near Mass City, Michigan. The Lake Copper Company was organized in 1905 on the original Belt Mine property. Work was started in 1909 and continued until 1919, when the mine closed for good. The mine produced approximately 7.3 million pounds of refined copper. Some copper, datolite, and silver can be found on the mine piles. [MINDAT]

Time Line

2023. Michigan environment regulars are shutting down access to a strange old roadside water spring well in the western U.P. The makeshift filling station must be plugged by the DNR because the water source is unknown and cannot be verified as safe to drink. The well is along the old COPR right of way at the abandoned Lake Mine at the location of a former railroad water tower and water main. [MRF-2023-04]