- Details
- Hits: 2414
Mine: Virgil Mine, Mineral Hills, MI
Began → Virgil Mine → Spies-Virgil Mine
Operated for 4 years.
From: 1912
Owned by:
Produced: Iron Ore
Method: Underground. Initial shaft 281 feet deep. Two more shafts 1,345 and 1,445 feet deep. Some ore mined via the adjoining Spies shaft.
Railroad connection:
Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant:
Until: 1918
Lifetime Production: 134,482 tons shipped in 19912-1914, 1916 and 1918.
Notes
46.11083, -88.63500
An iron mine worked 1912 through 1918, shipping 134,482 tons of ore from its 281-foot shaft and two levels before consolidation into Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co's Spies-Virgil operation during the late 1920s.
Mine was inactive from 1918 to 1925. [SMG-1967]
The property description is SW-NW Sec. 24 T43N-R35W, which is the 40 acres between N46º6'32", N46º6'45", W88º37'56", and W88º38'15".
The Virgil Mine was located in Iron River in Iron County.
Time Line
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