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Mine: Domtar Mine, Walker, MI
Began → Domatar Mine → Closed
From: Before 1860. Reopened in 1984.
Owned by: Grand Rapids Gypsum Company. Sold around 1999 to Georgia-Pacific which closed the mine.
Produced: Gypsum.
Method: Underground.
Railroad connection:
Stamp Mill/Smelter:
Until: 1999
Lifetime Production:
Owned by R. E. Butterworth, who opened the first gypsum mines north of the Grand River in this area.
Prior to closure, this was the last operating underground gypsum mine in Michigan.
Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI