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Mine: Volunteer Mine (New), Palmer, MI
Maitland Mine → Volunteer Mine (new) → Became
Operated for 24+ years, continuing in 1950.
From: 1926
Location: NE Sec. 25 of T47N-R27W; Maitland, W 1/2-NW Sec. 30 of T47N-R26W
Owned by: Palmer Mining Co. (Pickands Mather & Co. agents)
Produced: Iron Ore, hard, gray-red, siliceous. Crushed.
Method: Shaft and open pit.
Railroad connection: DSS&A to Marquette dock. C&NW to Escanaba dock.
Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant:
Until:
Lifetime Production: 4,574,470 tons between 1926 and 1950.
Source: [LSIO-1950]
Notes
Shaft A and B were noted on the [CNWV] valuation maps.
Time Line
1917. A branch leaving the C&NW Cascade Branch at Palmer, going north. The Cascade Branch going west from this mine was taken up. [CNWV]
1918. Main tracks to the Volunteer mine were taken up by the C&NW. [CNWV]
1923. May. The spur to the Volunteer Mine coal trestle was taken up. [CNWV]