Mine: Breen Mine, Waucedah, MI

Began → Breen Mine → Became

Operated for 7 years.

From: 1871 first exploration. First mining in 1877.

Owned by: Milwaukee Iron Company, then Menominee Mining Company in 1877. Later Mineral Mining Co.

Produced: Iron Ore

Method: Underground and open pit.

Railroad connection: C&NW to port of Escanaba.

Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant:

Until: May, 1878

Lifetime Production: 75,425 tons over 7 years from 1877 to 1907.

Notes

Adjoining the Emmet Mine. NW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Section 22, T39-R28. Also owns N 1/2 of NW 1/4 of Section 22.

BREEN MINE—N. W. ¼ of N. E. ¼, N. W. ¼ of N. W. ¼ and N. E. ¼ of N. W. ¼, Section 22-39-28. [LSMI-1911]

Opened 1877 and is the oldest mine on the Menominee Range. Present workings (in 1950) were opened in 1904.

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