Began → Munro Mine → Became
Operated for 18 years.
From: 1903
Location: NW-SE and NE-SW Sec. 6 of T39N-R29W.
Owned by: Munro Mining Co., Rogers, Brown Iron Co. agent.
Produced: Iron Ore, hard, red, siliceous.
Method: Open pit and underground methods.
Railroad connection: C&NW to Escanaba dock.
Until: 1921
Lifetime Production: 576,254 tons between 1903-1921
[LSIO-1950]
The Munro mine had two tracks plus a coal trestle. The mine appears to have one shaft and an engine house. [CNWV]
1903. The C&NW mine track to the Munro Mine was laid from near the Norway and Saginaw mines west. [CNWV]
1908. August. Orders have been received to place on the active list the Munro Mine of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Steel company. Manager Woodworth was in town last Friday and issued the necessary orders. Camp. Harry McDermott was placed in charge of operations and the work of unwatering the property has commenced. It will be ten days before it will be possible to hoise ore, but a considerable force of men is already at work. It is proposed to employ as large a force of men as can be worked to advantage - not less than 100. [IMP-1908-0827]
1911. The Munro Mine located one and one-fourth miles west of Norway on Section 6, 39-29 is leased by the Munro Iron Mining Company. Mining is by the open pit milling system. Owing to the low grade of the ore, only a limited product is desired. Total production to date, 298,578 tons. Equipment consists of two 150 H. P. return tubular boilers, geared hoist and straight line air compressors, and a No. 7½ crusher. G. L. Woodworth, Iron River, Mich., is in charge of the several properties of this company. [LSMI-1911]
1929. The mine track to Munro was retired. [CNWV]
