Mine: Blueberry Mine, Greenwood, MI

Part of Dexter Mine → Blueberry Mine → Closed

Operated for 24 years.

From: 1926

Located: N 1/2-NW Sec 3 and N 1/2-N 1/2 Sec 4 of T47N-R28W. Includes NE-NW Sec 3, formerly part of Dexter.

Owned by: Ford Motor Company from 1926 to 1933. Then North Range Mining Co.

Produced: Iron Ore; soft dark red non-bessemer. Crushed.

Method: Underground. 1,650 feet. Top slicing and stoping method.

Railroad connection: DSS&A to Marquette ore dock.

Until: 1950

Lifetime Production: 5.3 million tons from 1929-1950

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Notes

The Greenwood area in Marquette County was settled about 1865. The townsite was a station on the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railroad. The townsite also had blast furnaces of the Michigan Iron Company and was originally known as Greenwood Furnace. The furnaces were closed in 1875. [MPN]

This was just east of Diorite on the C&NW. The DSS&A used a connection at Diorite to reach the mine. [CNWV]

Time Line

1927. Tracks were built from the C&NW Michigamee Branch into the Blue Berry Mine, which was adjacent. These were joint with the DSS&A and LS&I.