Mine: Sherwood Mine, Mineral Hills, MI

Began → Sherwood Mine → Closed

Operate for 46 years.

From: 1931

Location: SE 1/4, NE 1/4, NE 1/4, SE 1/4 of Section 23 of T43N-R35W. Operations were extended in the late 1950's to include the SE 1/4 of Section 24.

Owned by: Republic Steel Corp, then Inland Steel Co. in 1943.

Produced: Iron Ore, semi-hard, reddish-brown, high phosphorus. Crushed.

Method: Underground

Railroad connection: C&NW to port of Escanaba.

Until: 1978 (closed). Last working mine in Iron River area.

Lifetime Production: 2,838,904 tons between 1931 and 1950.

Source: [LSIO]

Image info: Top, an overhead view of the Sherwood Mine in Mineral Hills with a modern shaft house on the left and support buildings on the site. [MINART]. 2nd image, an overhead view of the mine in the 1940's. [Alpha Mastodon Historical Society]

Notes

Property was first entered from the adjoining Virgil mine.

Time Line

1943. The mine was taken over by the Inland Steel Co. and a shaft sunk near the center of SE 1/4 NE 1/4 of Section 23 to about 1,625 feet.

1959 - June 1. Sherwood Mine, Iron River, Iron Co. - Inrush of hot gases and steam - 6 fatalities.

1965. Listed as an active mine, owned by the Inland Steel Company of Chicago. [DWP]