Mine: Mather B Mine, Negaunee, MI

See notes → Mather B Mine → Closed

Operated for 32 years.

From: 1947 Shaft B (Sec. 1) - 1943 - Shaft A

Location: All of Sec. 2 (except N 1/2-NE-NE) and all of Sec. 1 (except N 1/2-N 1/2-NW) of T47N-R27W.

Owned by: Negaunee Mine Co., Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. agent.

Produced: Iron Ore, non-bessemer.

Method: Underground by stoping and caving method.

Railroad connection: LS&I to Improvement Plan and Presque Isle dock; C&NW to Escanaba dock.

Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant: Eagle Mills Improvement Plant

Until: 1979.

Lifetime Production: 4,555,744 tons between 1943-1950. Continued.  See Mather B Mine.

Source: [LSIO-1950]

Photo Info: The Mather B mine in 1955.

Notes

Includes former Cleveland-Hematite Mine (SW Sec. 2); East New York Mine (SW-SW Sec. 2); Iron Centre Mine (SW-SE Sec. 2); Ames Mine (SE-SW Sec 2); and former Jackson Mine, which included all of Sec. 1 except N 1/2-N 1/2-NW.

When fully operational, Mather B required two switch jobs per day and loaded 110 ore cars per day for the pellet improvement plant at Eagle Mills. [LSI2]

Time Line

1965. An active mine, owned by Negaunee Mining Co., Cleveland-Cliffs Mining Company operator. [DMP]