Mine: Porcupine Mine, Silver City, MI

Began → Porcupine Mine → Became

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Produced: Silver Ore?

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Notes

West of Silver City.

This mine was reportedly west of Silver City in northern Ontonagon County. No other information has been identified.

Time Line

1900. A deed has been filed in the office of the register of deeds of Ontonagon county transferring the holdings and mineral rights of the Carp Lake Copper Company to a newly organized company, mainly Cleveland capitalists, known as the Porcupine Copper company, of which the president of the Dime Savings bank of Cleveland, is the president. 

The lands conveyed are the SE ¼ of Section 15; S ½ of Section 14; the NE ¼ of the NW ¼ of Section 23; all in T51N-R43W, together with several lots on the shore of Lake Superior some distance west of Ontonagon for a stamp mill site. [LAS-1900-1215]