Mine: Sunday Lake Mine, Wakefield, MI

Began → Sunday Lake Mine → Abandoned

Operated for 80 years.

From: 1881

Owned by: Sunday Lake Iron Co.

Produced: Iron Ore. First ore shipped in 1885.

Method: 

Railroad connection: C&NW port of Ashland.

Until: 1961

Lifetime Production: 17 million tons of ore.

Photo info: The Sunday Lake Mine complex northeast of Wakefield. [MINART]

Notes

Sunday Lake Mine is named after the large nearby lake in Wakefield. The mine was located on the hill, east of the lake and north of the village of Wakefield. It was operated by the Sunday Lake Iron Company. The mine was in the western 1/2 of Section 10, T47N-45. It was part of a larger group of mines known as the Sunday Lake Group.

This mine eventually encompassed the Brotherton and Pike (1927) mines.

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