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Location: Castle-Meteor Mine, Wakefield, MI
Began → Castile Mine → Castile-Meteor Mine
Operated for 37 years.
From: 1886
Located: Sections 10 and 11 of T47N-45W.
Owned by: Owned at one point by the Ogleby Norton Company. [IOI]
Produced: Iron Ore
Method:
Railroad connection: C&NW to Ashland.
Until: 1923
Lifetime Production:
Notes
The Castle-Meteor Mine was located about 1/2 mile east of Sunday Lake in Wakefield. It covered section 10 and 11 of T47N-45W.
The Castile began in 1886 and closed in 1923. The Meteor began in 1890 (called the Norton Mine) and was developed into a mine in 1900 and operated until 1904. Six million tons of ore were shipped under the North Mikado mine name.Time Line
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