Mine: Queen Mine (Group), Negaunee, MI

Swan Mine → Queen Mine → Regent Group Mines (see notes)

Operated for 31 years.

From: 1886

Location: E 1/2-SW and W 1/2-SE oif T47N-R26W. Included Buffalo, NW-SE; South Buffalo SW-SEE; Prince of Wales E 60 rods of NE-SW; and Quen, E 60 rods of SE-SW Sec. 5.

Owned by: Oliver Iron Mining Co., then to Jones and Laughlin Ore Co. in 1921 (Regent Group)

Produced: Iron Ore, hard and soft, dark red, non-bessemer.

Method: Underground depth 740 feet)

Railroad connection: DSS&A to Marquette dock; C&NW to Escanaba dock. LS&I.

Until: 1917

Lifetime Production: 8,195,123 tons between 1886-1917.

Notes

Also known as the Old Queen Mine. [CNWV]

Time Line

1886. E. J. Swan took an option on the property. They explored but failed to find a vein. Sold to Edward Lobb and associates from Negaunee. The name was changed to Queen Mine after ore was struck in large quantities. Sold by the Swan Mining Company to Milwaukee interests in 1889 for about $200,000, 30 acres of land. [DFP-1889-0210]

1890. This mine is owned by the Schlesinger Syndicate of Milwaukee. [DD=1890-0823]

1902. Queen Mine Cave. The surface at the Queen mine at Negaunee, which started to cave in on Wednesday, has steadily been sinking. Until now there is a yawning cavern 250 feet long, 225 feet wide and one hundred feet deep. Two dwelling houses have been carried down, and another will probably follow suit, the ground being badly cracked. The residents, warned by the fist cave-in, removed furniture and other belongings in time. The south branch track of the DSS&A crossed the property and part of this has fallen into the cave-in. The first section of a ore train had passed. [DFP-1902-0901]

Operated by Oliver Iron Mining Co. Greatest depth, 740 feet. (South Buffalo also known as Anderson mine. Prince of Wales also known as George Mitchell Mine; Queen Mine also known as Swan Mine.

Prince of Wales (in NE-SW and Queen (in SE-SW) acquired in 1921 by Jones and Laughlin Ore Co; now included in Regent Group. [LSIO-1950]

1903. The DSS&A crosses over the LS&I at Queen Mine. [MCR-1904]