Mine: Foster Mine, Ishpeming, MI

Began → Foster Mine → Iron Cliffs Mine

Operated for 35 years.

From: 1868

Location: SE-SE Sec 22 and Sw-SW Sec 23 of T47N-R27W

Owned by: Iron Cliffs Company, later Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Com.

Produced: Iron Ore

Method: Long narrow open pit, then underground?

Railroad connection:

Until: At least 1903

Lifetime Production: 351,713 tons between 1868-1903.

Notes

Section 23, 47-27, east of the Braastad on the estate of the Iron Cliffs Company. Later Iron Cliffs Mine.

Three miles S of Ishpeming, SW 1/4 of Section 23, T47-R27.

In 1878, this was an open pit mine, 500' long, 15' wide and 70' deep.

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