Mine: Virgil Mine, Mineral Hills, MI

Began → Virgil Mine → Spies-Virgil Mine

Operated for 4 years.

From: 1912

Owned by: 

Produced: Iron Ore

Method: Underground. Initial shaft 281 feet deep. Two more shafts 1,345 and 1,445 feet deep. Some ore mined via the adjoining Spies shaft.

Railroad connection:

Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant:

Until: 1918

Lifetime Production: 134,482 tons shipped in 19912-1914, 1916 and 1918.

Notes

46.11083, -88.63500

An iron mine worked 1912 through 1918, shipping 134,482 tons of ore from its 281-foot shaft and two levels before consolidation into Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co's Spies-Virgil operation during the late 1920s.

Mine was inactive from 1918 to 1925. [SMG-1967]

The property description is SW-NW Sec. 24 T43N-R35W, which is the 40 acres between N46º6'32", N46º6'45", W88º37'56", and W88º38'15".

The Virgil Mine was located in Iron River in Iron County.

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