Mine: Yale Mine, Bessemer, MI

Valley Mine → Yale Mine → Yale-Jackpot Mine

Operated for 39 years.

From: 1886 at Valley. Then closed. Reopened as Yale in 1901.

Owned by: Charcoal Iron Co. of America. Then Jones & Laughlin Ore Co.

Produced: Iron Ore

Method: Underground, sub-level caving and top-slicing method. Soft, red, Bessemer and non-Bessemer hematite.

Railroad connection: CNW, Soo Line to port of Ashland.

Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant:

Until: 1925

Lifetime Production: 2,424,507 tones including Valley, Yale and Jackpot mines.

Photo info: The shaft house at the Yale mine, early 1900's. [MINART]

Notes

See West Colby Mine. Also operated as the Yale-Jackpot Mine in 1938.

The Yale Mine was an underground mine east of Bessemer, near the Jack Pot Mine. The mine was located southwest of downtown Bessemer, between the Colby Mine (on the east) and the Ironton Mine (on the west).

• Valley: S 1/2-NW Section 16.
• Jackpot: N 1/2-SW Section 16. of T47N-R46W.

46^o 28'0" North, 90^o 3'45" West

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