Mine: Salisbury Mine, Ishpeming, MI

Began → Salisbury Mine → Iron Cliffs Mine

Operated for 52 years.

From: 1872

Location: S 1/2-NW and SW-NE Sec. 15 of T47N-R27W

Owned by: Iron Cliffs Company, later Cleveland Cliffs Co. (in 1890)

Produced: Iron Ore, soft, red, non-Bessemer.

Method: Large pit, 350' x 80' deep., then underground. depth 830 feet., top slicing method.

Railroad connection: DSS&A to Marquette dock; then LS&I to Presque Isle dock.

Until: 1924

Lifetime Production: 133,402 tons between 1872 and 1878. [LSMI-1909] 4,489,102 tons between 1872-1924. [LISO-1950]

Source: [LSIO-1950]

Notes

Later Iron Cliffs Mine.

Soft hematite, 68% metallic content, .52% silia. [CMS-1878]

Time Line

1895. May. The compressed air receivers at the Salisbury mine at Ishpeming, exploded Thursday, knocking out the end and portion of the roof of a brick building near by. All windows in the buildings in the immediate vicinity were broken by the shock. No one was injured. [DD-1895-0518]