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During its operating years the mine produced an incredible 21 624 000 tons of iron ore for the Midwest s steel mills During your tour you ll ride a small train car 400 feet underground for a firsthand look at the mine s series of tunnels and drifts TripAdvisor/Beth999 Iron Mountain Iron Mine Geology enthusiasts will enjoy perusing
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Within a few years iron mines opened all across the central Upper Peninsula The first mine in Michigan was the Jackson Mine near Negaunee Michigan Iron mines are located in areas known as ranges The Upper Peninsula s biggest range is called Marquette Range Two smaller ranges are the Menominee Range and The Gogebic Range
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A Bright Future Former Mine Site to Be Redeveloped as 300 Acre Solar Array On a sunny day last week in Michigan s Upper Peninsula Kevin Sundholm picked up a small handful of marble sized pellets of iron ore from the ground Pelletized iron ore left over from the days of production at the Groveland Mine
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Cliffs Natural Resources CEO Lourenco Goncalves said he gave everyone involved fair warning that the mine southwest of Marquette is nearing the end of its 52 year life Skip to Article Set weather
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Mining in Michigan The Department of EGLE Oil Gas and Minerals Division OGMD regulates several mining industries in Michigan including metallic mining native copper mining sand dune mining and coal mining The OGMD enforces regulations which address issues such as transportation storage treatment and disposal of ore waste rock
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Upper Peninsula Michigan Iron Mountain Iron Mine Vulcan Iron Mountain Iron Mine ROCK SHOP COUPON Ride the underground train This mine operated for 68 years and produced 21 625 000 tons of iron ore for the great steel mills of the Midwest Travel 2 600 feet through drifts and tunnels to 400 feet below the earth s surface
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Michigan is a major producer of cement construction sand and gravel iron ore peat and potash It produces common clay crushed and dimension stone gypsum industrial sand and gravel lime gemstones and salt The following data table gives nonfuel mineral commodity production data for Michigan extracted from Table 5 in the 2024 Minerals
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Sherwood Mine Iron County Michigan USA x x cm $20 Discounted to $15 P 4714 Pyrolusite Druze Quartz Goethite Taylor Iron Mine Alberta Twp Baraga Co Michigan x x 3 cm $45 Q 6735 Quartz and Dolomite in Vugs in Specular Hematite Republic Mine Republic Marquette Co Michigan
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million long tons of iron ore pellets Fact Sheet Download Fact Sheet Minorca Mine Hibbing Taconite Raw Material Operations Tilden Mine Tilden Mine is located on the Marquette Iron Range in Michigan s Upper Peninsula approximately five miles south of Ishpeming Cleveland Cliffs became sole owner of the mine in 2024
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Times of departure Daily 10am or 5pm hours may change as daylight changes this tour runs from spring snow melt to late fall Cost $180 1 2p $55ea additional per Book this adventure Call / text 906 828 9one9one or Facebook Msg UP Tours Read about Cancellations and Terms THINGS TO NOTE Most people are able to take part in this adventure
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1 02 SANDS TOWNSHIP Mich The pies wait So do the cookies and cupcakes the doughnuts and the sweet rolls the yeast breads and quick breads and breads made with fruit All competing for
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PDF These notes comprehensively explain colour photographs of Precambrian iron formations and Phanerozoic ironstones stored in folders as Find read and cite all the research
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1861 There are 3 mines open in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan The Jackson Mine Negaunee the Cleveland Mine Ishpeming and the Lake Superior Mine Ishpeming 32 1861 1865 The Civil War causes an increased demand for iron ore that can be made into Bessemer steel or used for cannons and ammunition
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The museum has several examples of different technology developed by iron mining companies to better extract ore from the earth but it also shares the stories of everyday life in mining communities but play in the Upper Peninsula The Michigan Iron Industry Museum is open year round on the following schedule October 1 2024 April 30
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The Upper Peninsula Geological Repository UPGR is located in Michigan s Upper Peninsula near the Sawyer International Airport in Gwinn Michigan The collection is enclosed within a 44 000 square foot warehouse and holds drill core and cuttings with an emphasis on Northern Peninsula Geology UP Geological Repository
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The demand for iron ore from the Upper Peninsula brought many people to the area in hopes of getting into the prosperous opportunities the mining industry had to offer According to the 1864 Michigan Department of State Census stated there are 6 mines in Marquette County employing 562 persons
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The Marquette Iron Range The first iron rich area to be mined near Lake Superior was the Marquette iron range The iron range was discovered by William A Burt by discovering iron ore outcroppings south of Teal Lake which is located just west of Marquette The Marquette iron range is known as the Negaunee Iron Formation by geologists
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Gold Mining in Michigan s Upper Peninsula Boy Gold Miner In 1895 at 12 years of age Jim became the youngest miner at the Ropes Gold Mine in Ishpeming Michigan Gold Mining in Michigan s Upper Penninsula This is an excerpt from an article written by my father James M Clem in the early 1960 s about Gold mining in Michigan s Upper Peninsula
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Michigan s Upper Peninsula is home to a pair of open pit iron mines that have been operating for several decades Standing on the edge of Empire Mine is like looking into an amphitheater far too big for any performance It s a mile wide and a mile across 1200 feet deep
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Time Line for Iron River Includes Stambaugh Mineral Hills Caspian and Gaastra 1880 Iron ore exploration 1882 Nearby village of Stambaugh is platted as is the Village of 1882 Chicago Northwestern railroad builds into Iron River from Iron 1882 The Naniamo Mine is sunk in Iron River and works until 1882 The C NW builds a spur to the Beta and
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They are the UP s last remaining iron ore mines Between them the Tilden and Empire mines west of Marquette issue paychecks to about 1 050 union workers They labor for
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Stamp Mills began popping up all over Upper Michigan A Stamp Mill s purpose was to crush rocks so they could extract the minerals they sought after Unfortunately as the years have passed the mining industry has seen a significant decline Many houses and factories have been left abandoned and the elements are starting to take over
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First Discovery of Iron Ore in the Lake Superior Region Michigan s Iron Man William Austin Burt 1792 1858 Soon after Michigan became a state in 1837 William Austin Burt was hired to survey the new land By 1840 Burt and his survey team had reached the Upper Peninsula mapping the howling wilderness Download PDF
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Mining waste and growing wetlands mean more mercury in fish in Upper Peninsula Funded by a $50 000 grant from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation a two year pilot project will focus on the Mather B iron mine which closed in 1979 and whose former administrative offices are now a high school
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For over a century in Michigan s Upper Peninsula it was wilderness vs industry Mining logging and shipping dominated through the 1960s but the UP has reemerged as the beautiful place it was meant to be and with battle scars that make it even cooler The ruins of copper smelters crumble with the rocky shorelines overgrown railroads
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The Upper Peninsula was described in a government report as a sterile region on the shores of Lake Superior destined by soil and climate to remain forever a wilderness Things took a sudden turn in Michigan s favor in the 1840s when the Upper Peninsula was soon discovered to have vast deposits of copper and iron ore
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The average stripping ratio is approximately waste units to 1 crude ore unit stripping ratio The final Tilden pit is a single pit approximately mi along strike up to mi wide and up to 1 980 ft deep The Tilden operation has strict crude ore blending requirements to ensure the Plant receives a consistent crude ore feed
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Wakefield is a city in Gogebic County in the state of population was 1 851 at the 2024 Wakefield is located in the western Upper Peninsula about 10 miles 16 km east of the Wisconsin border The city is mostly surrounded by Wakefield Township but the two are administered autonomously Route 2 passes through the city and M 28 has its western terminus in the city
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List of mines in Michigan Wikipedia List of mines in Michigan Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as KML This is a partial list of current and defunct mines in Michigan See also [ edit] List of Copper Country mines
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