Mine: Cardiff Mine, Mineral Hills, MI

Began → Cardiff Mine → Closed

Operated for 4 years.

From: 1919

Location: E 1/2-NE, N 1/2-SE and SW-NE Sec. 22 of T42N-R35W. Includes Keweenaw, N 1/2-SE and SW-NE and McGovern Mine E 1/2-NE.

Owned by: Wickwire Mining Co. in 1919, subsidiary of Wickwire Steel Co. Then M.A. Hanna Iron Ore Co. as a part of the Homer mine.

Produced: 144,000 tons of medium, hard, red-brown, high phosphorus hematite ore in two years, 1922-1923.

Method: Underground shaft. Worked by sub-lvel stoping method. 1,310 feet.

Railroad connection: C&NW to Escanaba dock.

Until: 1923 (permanently closed)

Lifetime Production: 144,415 tons from 1922-1923 (included in Homer tonnage).

Notes

Enginehouse, dryhouse, shafthouse (steel framework with sheet metal exterior, 40' tall, 20x25' at the base, 6x8' at the top. [UPM]

The Cardiff Mine was located in Mineral Hills, north of Iron River in Iron County.

Adjoining the Homer Mine to the west.

The most western workings of the Cardiff, together with the drilling in the area, reveal the Riverton thins rapidly to the west in places less than 25 feet thick. [SMG-1967]

Time Line

1919. Mine opened.

1923. Closed.

1967. Part of the Homer-Wauseca Group. [DMG-1967]