Mine: Tilden Mine, Ishpeming, MI

Began → Tilden Mine → Continues operations

Operated for: 91 years, continues.

From: 1929

Location: N 1/2 of Sec. 6 of T47N-R27W

Owned by: Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.

Produced: Iron Ore, hard, red, siliceous. Crushed.

Method: Open pit, surface mine.

Railroad connection: LS&I to Presque Isle.

Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant: On site.

Until: Open

Lifetime Production: 4,035,003 tons between 1929 and 1950

Source: [LSIO-1950]

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Time Line

1965. An active open pit mine producing siliceous ore. Owned by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company. [DMP]