Mine: Odgers Mine, Crystal Falls, MI

Began → Odgers Mine → Became

From: 1916

Location: S 1/2-NE Sec. 30 of T43N-R32W

Owned by: Corrigan McKinney Steel Co. which merged with Republic Steel Corp. in 1935. Lease surrendered in 1936.

Produced: Iron Ore, soft, reddish-brown, high phosphorus. Crushed.

Method: Underground, worked by stoping method. Depth: 868 feet.

Railroad connection: C&NW and MILW to port of Escanaba.

Until: 1935

Lifetime Production: 2,101,381 tons between 1916 and 1935.

[LSIO-1950]

80 acres in Section 30, T43N-R32W. [MINDAT]

Coordinates: Between N46-5-39, N46-5-52, W88-20-47 and W33-21-24.

Photo Info/Credit: The shaft house at the Odgers Mine. Note the serious cave in at the site. 1923  [MINART]