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Mine: Norway Mine, Norway, MI
Began → Norway Mine → Became
Operated for:
From: 1878
Owned by: Menominee Mining Co in 1878, then Penn Iron Mining Co.
Produced: Iron Ore
Method:
Railroad connection: C&NW branch one mile long. Ore pockets on south side of track.
Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant:
Until:
Lifetime Production:
Notes
NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 5, T39-R29. Two miles northwest of the Vulcan Mine in Norway.
Norway Mine was an iron ore mine located at Norway, MI in Dickenson County. It was operated after 1893 by the Penn Iron Mining company.
Time Line
1893. And later under Penn Iron Mining Company.
1916. Norway, Mich., July 22--In a cave-in on the 18th level of the Curry mine of the Penn Iron Mining company near here, three men were killed and a fourth, James Binanzetti, is caught between two timbers, still alive, but out of the reach of rescuers. Men are working to reach the imprisoned miner. The dead: Dick Cooper, Thomas Jones, and Grederic Vercauten-- [Kalamazoo Gazette 07-22-1916]