- Details
- Hits: 1865
Mine: Richmond Mine (New), Palmer, MI
Richmond Mine (old) → Richmond Mine (New) → Became
Operated for 23+ years (continuing as of 1950)
From: 1927
Location: SW Sec. 27 of T47N-R26W
Owned by: Richmond Iron Co. (M.A. Hanna agent). Reverted in 1928 to Oliver Iron Mining Co., fee owner.
Produced: Iron Ore, hard, red, siliceous. Crushed.
Method: Open pit.
Railroad connection: C&NW to Escanaba. DSS&A to the Marquette dock via C&NW trackage rights from the mine to Palmer, and then north to Negaunee.
Until: 1956.
Lifetime Production: 3,511,218 tons from 1927 to 1950.
Source: [LSIO-1950]
Notes
See also New Richmond Mine (History→Stations→Marquette→N-P, Mines)
At the New Richmond, the mine used narrow gauge steam locomotives to pull cars through the mine on a loop and then dumped them into the crusher. They also had a coal dock at the mine.
Some of the mine tracks are still in place as of 2024. The site is owned in reserve by Cleveland Cliffs. [GS]
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