Mine: Palms Mine, Bessemer, MI

Began → Palms Mine → Became

Operated for

From: 1886

Owned by: Dunn Iron Mining Co.; then owned at one point by the Steel and Tube Company of America. [IOI]

Produced: Iron Ore

Method: Underground

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

Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant:

Until: 1923

Lifetime Production: 9,114,019

Image info: Top, an underground view of the electric tram railroad at the West Palms Mine in 1946.

Notes

The Palms Mine was located east of Bessemer, between the Tilden Mine and west of the Anvil Mine. It was operated by the Newport Mining Company.

Time Line

 1923. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. consolidated the Anvil and Palms mines with the Keweenaw (or North Anvil) and Massie (or Houghton County) leases into the present Anvil-Palms-Keweenaw Group.