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Copper Mines of Houghton County
Go To: North of Portage Canal | South of Portage
Canal | Keweenaw County | Ontonagon County
Houghton County Copper Mines North of the Portage Canal
Does not include short term exploratory mines which did not ship.
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| Mine | Location | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940+ |
| Quincy Mine | Hancock | 1846 | → | → | → | → | → | → | → | → | 1945 |
| Albion Mine | Calumet | 1853-55 | |||||||||
| Pewabic Mine | Hancock | 1853 | → | → | 1881 | ||||||
| Franklin Mine | Boston | 1857 | → | → | 1887+ | ||||||
| Hancock Mine | Hancock | 1859 | → | → | → | → | 1919 | ||||
| Boston Mine | Boston | 1860 | |||||||||
| Oneco Mine | Hubbell | 1862 | → | → | → | 1910 | |||||
| Centennial Mine | Centennial | 1863 | → | → | → | → | → | → | → | 1965 | |
| St. Mary Mine | Boston | 1863 | |||||||||
| C&H Mine | Calumet | 1864 | → | → | → | → | → | → | → | 1968 | |
| Arcadian Mine | Ripley | 1864 | → | → | → | 1903 | |||||
| Osceola Mine | Calumet | 1877 | → | → | → | → | → | → | 1868 | ||
| Tamarack Mine | Calumet | 1882 | → | → | → | → | ? | ||||
| Wolverine Mine | Calumet | 1882 | → | → | → | 1922 | |||||
| North Tamarack Mine | Calumet | 1887 | |||||||||
| S. Kearsarge Mine | Calumet | 1887 | → | → | → | → | 1930 | ||||
| Red Jacket Mine | Calumet | 1889+ | |||||||||
| Kearsarge Mine | Kearsarge | 1891 | → | → | → | 1931 | |||||
| Franklin Junior Mine | Boston | 1895-97 | |||||||||
| Rhode Island Mine | Calumet | 1899 | |||||||||
| LaSalle Mine | Calumet | 1903 | |||||||||
Houghton County Copper Mines South of the Portage Canal
Does not include short term exploratory mines which did not ship.
| Mine | Location | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s |
| Huron Mine | Houghton | 1853 | → | → | → | 1893 | |||||
| Showme Mine | Lake Roland | 1853 | |||||||||
| Ontario Mine | Donken | 1854 | |||||||||
| South Peewabic Mine | Houghton | 1864 | 1870 | ||||||||
| WInona Mine | Winona | 1865 | → | → | → | → | → | 1920 | |||
| Adams Mine | Houghton | 1866 | 1870 | ||||||||
| Atlantic Mine | Houghton | 1872 | → | → | 1906 | ||||||
| Baltic Mine | So. Range | 1882 | → | → | → | → | 1931 | ||||
| Isale Royale Mine | Dodgeville | 1898 | |||||||||
| Champion Mine | Painsdale | 1899 | → | → | → | → | 1967 | ||||
| Elm River Mine | Lake Roland | 1899 | → | → | → | → | 1949 | ||||
| Trimountain Mine | Trimountain | 1899 | → | → | → | 1930 | |||||
| Wyandot Mine | Lake Roland | 1899 | 1907+ | ||||||||
| Globe Mine | Painsdale | 1901-09 | |||||||||
| Challenge Mine | Trimountain | 1904 | |||||||||
Keweenaw County Copper Mines
Does not include short term exploratory mines which did not ship.
| Mine | Location | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940+ |
| Cliff Mine | Phoenix | 1845 | → | 1878 | |||||||
| Copper Falls Mine | E. Harbor | 1846 | → | → | → | → | 1901 | ||||
| Copper Harbor Mine | C. Harbor | 1846-53 | |||||||||
| Delaware Mine | Delaware | 1846 | → | → | 1887 | ||||||
| Lac La Belle Mine | L.L. Belle | 1849 | |||||||||
| N. American Mine | Phoenix | 1849 | → | 1875 | |||||||
| Clark Mine | C. Harbor | 1853 | → | → | → | → | 1901 | ||||
| Central Mine | Central | 1854 | → | → | → | 1898 | |||||
| Phoenix Mine | Phoenix | 1855 | → | 1879 | CLOSED | 1899 | 1908 | ||||
| Garden City Mine | E. River | 1857 | 1865 | ||||||||
| Amygdaloid Mine | Delaware | 1860 | 1878 | ||||||||
| Allouez Mine | Allouez | 1869 | → | → | → | → | → | → | → | 1966 | |
| Aetna Mine | 1863 | 1873 | |||||||||
| Arnold Mine | 1896 | 1900 | |||||||||
| Mohawk Mine | Mohawk | 1898 | → | → | → | 1932 | |||||
| Ahmeek Mine | Ahmeek | 1903 | → | → | → | 1966 | |||||
| Seneca Mine | Mohawk | 1907 | |||||||||
| N. Kearsage Mine | 1881 | → | → | 1914 | |||||||
Ontonagon County Copper and Silver Mines
Does not include short term exploratory mines which did not ship.
| Mine | Location | 1840s | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920+ |
| Ohio Trapp Rock Mine | Norwich | 1845 | 1857 | |||||||
| Mendenhall Mine | Rockland | 1846-49 | ||||||||
| Douglas Houghton | Mass | 1846 | → | 1865 | ||||||
| Minesota Mine | Rockland | 1848 | → | → | 1876 | |||||
| Victoria Mine | Rockland | 1849 | → | → | → | → | → | → | → | 1921 |
| Norwich Mine | Norwich | 1850 | ||||||||
| Adventure Mine | Greenland | 1850 | → | → | → | → | → | → | 1920 | |
| Hudson Mine | Norwich | 1851-56 | ||||||||
| Derby Mine | Norwich | 1852 | 1863+ | |||||||
| Firesteel Mine | Mass | 1852-55 | ||||||||
| Sharon Mine | Norwich | 1852-55 | ||||||||
| South Lake Mine | Mass | 1852 | → | → | 1882 | CLOSED | CLOSED | 1912-18 | ||
| Evergreen Bluff Mine | Mass | 1853 | → | 1871 | ||||||
| Flintsteel Mines | Rockland | 1853 | → | 1871 | ||||||
| Rockland Mine | Rockland | 1853 | → | → | 1880 | |||||
| Knowlton Mine | Greenland | 1853 | ||||||||
| West Minnesota | Rockland | 1854-57 | ||||||||
| Clinton Mine | Norwich | 1855 | → | → | → | → | 1900 | |||
| Cuyahoga Mine | Silver City | 1856 | 1866 | |||||||
| Mass Mine | Maas | 1856 | → | → | 1888? | |||||
| Carp Lake Mine | Silver City | 1859 | → | → | → | → | → | → | 1929 | |
| Lafayette Mine | Silver City | 1861 | → | → | → | 1906 | ||||
| Indiana Mine | Mass | 1862-65 | ||||||||
| King Philip Mine | Winona | 1864 | → | → | → | → | 1911 | |||
| Superior Mine | Silver City | 1873-79 | ||||||||
| Scranton Mine | Silver City | 1873-76 | ||||||||
| Collins Mine | Silver City | 1873-79 | ||||||||
| Nonesuch Mine | Silver City | 1876 | → | → | → | 1912 | ||||
| Michigan Mine | Rockland | 1900 | → | 1920 | ||||||
| Lake Mine | Mass | 1909 | 1919 | |||||||
| Algomah Mine | Lake Mine | 1910 | → | 1957 | ||||||
| White Pine Mine | White Pine | 1915 | → | 1995 | ||||||
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
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