Mine: Ironton Mine, Bessemer, MI

Began → Ironton Mine → Became

Operated for:

From: 1886

Owned by: Puritan Mining Company. Later by Pickands, Mather and Co.

Produced: Iron Ore, redish-brown Bessemer and non-Bessemer.

Method: Underground/ 1,800 feet.

Railroad connection: C&NW and Soo Line to Port of Ashland

Until: 1941

Lifetime Production: 9,524,010 tons.

Photo Info: The Ironton Mine headframe in the early 1900's. [MINARC]

Notes

The Ironton Mine was located in Ironwood and was an underground mine. It was owned over time by the Puritan Mining Company and the Pickands, Mather and Company. It was located between the Winona and Puritan Mines, west of Bessemer in Section 18 of T47N-R46W.

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