Mine: Lake Angeline Mine, Ishpeming, MI

Began → Lake Angeline Mine → Became

Operated: 58 years.

From: 1864

Located: N 1/2-N 1/2 and lot equivalent to SE-NE Sec. 15 of T47N-R27W

Owned by: Pittsburgh and Lake Angeline Co. in 1878. Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., agents. Same in 1908. Later by the Cleveland-Cliffs Co.

Produced: Iron Ore, soft, red, Bessemer.

Method: Underground (depth 424 feet) and open pit.

Railroad connection: DSS&A, then LS&I to port of Presque Isle.

Until: At least 1922.

Lifetime Production: 9,319,679 tons of iron ore between 1864 and 1906.

Photo info: Three early photos from the Lake Angeline Mine in Ishpeming. The first shows a steam shovel loading ore cars from the early 1900's. 2nd photo, a shaft house. 3rd photo, railroad ore cars loading ore for movement to the docks. [MINARC]

Notes

On the south shore of Lake Angeline. Mine is 100' below lake level. Contains hard and soft hematite. [CMS-1878]

Includes East End, N 1`/2-NE Sec. 15.

Also known as the Angeline Mine.

Time Line

1865. New tonnage is shipped from this mine via the BdN&M to Marquette. [DSS]

1868. This mine is now largely served by the C&NW. [DSS]

1895. The new railway track at the Lake Angeline mine has been finished and the local management is breathing easier. Boats have been crowding the docks at Marquette during the week crying for the mine's ore. It has kept the mine busy taking care of them. [DD-1895-0518]

1907. Ishpeming just now is bothered with a settling of the ground at the Jones & Laughlin company's Lake Angeline mine. It has taken down a portion of the roadway known as Pine street, has necessitated the removal of the city water main and will force the building of a new highway to get about this dangerous spot. [DFP-1907-0224]