Copper Mines of Houghton County


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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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