Mine: Vulcan Mine, Vulcan, MI

Began → Vulcan Mine → Became

Operated for:

From: 1877 - when railroad was completed to Vulcan

Owned by: Menominee Mining Company, later Penn Mining Co.

Produced: Iron Ore

Method: Underground.

Railroad connection: C&NW. Possibly W&M.

Until: 

Lifetime Production: 44,000 tons shipped between 1877 and 1878

Photo info: Both, shaft headframes at the Vulcan Mine. These could also be from the East or West Vulcan mine, [MINART] 

Notes

Vulcan Mine, located on the E 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of Section 8, T39N, R29W.

The Vulcan Mine was an iron ore mine located at Vulcan, MI in Dickenson County.  After 1892 it was operated by the Penn Iron Mining Company.

Formerly the Breitung Mine. Parts of Sections 9, 10 and 11 of T39N-R29W in Vulcan. Opened in 1877.

Public underground mine tours may be available at this mine.

Time Line

1893. In 1893 and later under Penn Iron Mining Company.

1887. July. Four Englishmen, named Wm. Kellow, Wm. Pengilly, James Vanderslyes and Paul Hastaing, were instantly killed in the Vulcan mine at Norway, Mich., Tuesday morning. They were coming out of the mine in a cage when some men above allowed the tram car to get away, and it went thundering down the shaft and struck the cage. Kellow was a single man, aged 18. The others leave widows and large families.-- [Jackson Citizen 07-05-1887]

1927. The latest development on the Menominee iron range at this time is the Vulcan shaft to be sunk 1,100 feet on a site north of the depot at Vulcan, MI by the Penn Iron Mining Co. (Pickands, Mather & Co.). The shaft will ultimately replace the East Vulcan and Central shafts. [MCH-1927-0902]