Location: Peterson Mine, Bessemer, MI

Various → Peterson Mine → Became

Operated for:

From: 1944

Owned by: Puritan Mining Company, Youngstown Steel, then Granite City Steel.

Produced: Iron Ore

Method: Underground

Railroad connection: C&NW and Soo Line to Port of Ashland.

Until: 1966.

Lifetime Production: 

Photo Info: Top photo, a 1950's overhead view of the Peterson mine. 2nd photo of the shaft house and modern ore processing building at the Peterson Mine in the 1950's. [MINART]

Notes

The Peterson Mine was located two miles southwest of Bessemer. It was an underground mine operated by the Puritan Mining Company.

Youngstown Steel owned an interest in the Peterson Mine until 1962, when it sold to Granite City Steel of East St. Louis, IL. They owned the mine until it closed in 1966.

This was the last underground mine operating in the Gogebic Range.

Time Line

1944. The Puritan, Ironton, Yale, Jackpot, Dean, Colby and Tilden were combined into the Peterson Group of mines. (Pickands Mather & Co., agent) A new shaft to 3,900 feet depth began in 1951. The mine was labeled Peterson in late 1951.

1957. The Peterson Mine plant, owned by Pickands Mather & Co., got its first full season's work out. The winter production of ore is stockpiled by an aerial tramway system that is the first of its kind in the Lake Superior region. [ED-1937-0114]

1966. The mine closed.