Mine: Cundy Mine, Quinnesec, MI

Began → Cundy Mine → Became

Operated for 17 years.

From: 1896

Location: N 1/2-NE and NE-NW Sec. 3 of T39N-R30W

Owned by: Cundy Iron Co. later by Oliver Iron Mining Co. Surrendered in 1913 to fee owner.

Produced: Iron Ore, hard, gray siliceous. Crushed.

Method: Underground, worked by stoping method. Depth: 603 feet.

Railroad connection: C&NW to Escanaba ore dock, and W&M.

Until: 1913

Lifetime Production: 846,078 tons between 1896 and 1913.

Source: [LSIO-1950]

Notes

Once known as Ruth & Rachal and J. R. Wood Mines.

Time Line

1911. The Cundy is the property of the Oliver Iron Mining Company and is situated at Quinnesec, in Dickinson County, Michigan. This mine is located in what is generally known as the Curry member of the Vulcan iron hearing formation, despite the fact that most of the ore bodies east of Iron Mountain are in the Traders’ member. The dip of the ore body is about 70 to 80 degrees toward the south, which is away from the dolomite, although the Chapin dips to the north toward the dolomite. The ore is hard and lean, and shows the fragmental nature more plainly than is common along the range. The ore body carries a considerable amount of magnetite. Two shafts are located on this property; one known as the “Gray,” and the other the “Foote,” the former 495 feet and the latter 615 feet in depth. The equipment at the Cundy mine consists of one 24”x48” simple, nonreversible, Corliss hoisting engine geared to two drums, each 8 feet in diameter with 6½ foot face, and three 72”x20’ horizontal tubular boilers. This property was closed down in October, 1903, and has not been in operation since that date. O. C. Davidson, Iron Mountain, Mich., is general superintendent of the properties operated by the Oliver Iron Mining Company.